Fiction
Engaged NY
"The Necklace"
Literary Terms
Antigone
100
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
100
Another word for "trash"
What is rubbish?
100
To have courtesy, thoughtfulness and judgment
What is tact?
100
the practice of representing things by means of symbols
What is symbolism?
100
To show your dutiful devotion
What is piety?
200
An individual in a story, poem or play
What is character?
200
A storehouse; a place where somethings are kept for safekeeping such as bank
What is depositories?
200
hard labor, exertion or drudgery
What is toil?
200
A figure of speech comparing to unlike things
What is a metaphor?
200
Showing influence over others by a dominant group
What is hegemony?
300
The voice telling the story
What is a narrator?
300
When there is a decline in standards or when somebody is immoral.
What is degenerates?
300
To go on consistently, constantly or continually
What is incessantly?
300
An instance of indirect reference in literature
What is an allusion?
300
A person favoring the overthrow of government
What is an anarchist?
400
The vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
400
Another word meaning to scatter
What is diffuse?
400
To have a bad temper, cheerlessly or grumpily
What is sullenly?
400
A speech form or expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements
What is an idiom?
400
In Greek tragedy, excess ambition causing ruin
What is hubris?
500
The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
What is figurative language?
500
To advise
What is apprising?
500
To be appealing or charmingly magnificient.
What is Exquisitely?
500
The following example from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells” is an example of ____________________: “Hear the loud alarum bells-- Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!”
What is alliteration?
500
Expressed in a trite or demoralizing way or to be overly moral
What is sententiously?