Figurative language
Story Elements
Literary Devices
Misc. Terms
Literary Genres
100

Comparison using like or as

What is a simile?

100

The beginning, middle, and end of a story, what the story is about.

What is the plot?

100

The use of concrete things to represent ideas.

What is symbolism?

100

A playwright creates this when the time or place of the story changes.

What is a scene?

100

A work of literature which is not true.

What is fiction?

200

An intentionally exaggerated figure of speech.

What is a hyperbole?

200

The most intense moment in a story.

What is climax?

200

The giving of clues to hint at something still to come.

What is foreshadowing?

200

The two primary forces that propel plot in a drama.

What is dialogue and action?

200

A piece of literature in which the author is also the subject of the story.

What is an autobiography?

300

Applies human characteristics to non-human things.

What is personification?

300

Time, place, duration of the story

What is the setting?

300

A return to an earlier time in a story to give prior information.

What is flashback?

300
The perspective of the story.

What is a point of view?

300

Literature written to be performed.

What is a drama?

400

A comparison not using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

400

The events following the climax of a story.

What is resolution?

400

The implication that the actual situation is quite different than that represented.

What is irony?

400

The main character in a story.

What is the protagonist?

400

Literature defined by stanzas and lines. Typically rhymes, but does not always.

What is poetry?

500

Words that mimic the sound they are describing.

What is onomatopoeia?

500

The event that gets the plot rolling.

What is the initiating event?

500

How the author describes the different characters in the story through direct and indirect methods. 

What is characterization?

500

The character or force against a main character in a story.

What is an antagonist?

500

Literature which plot cannot occur in the real world. Typically contains witchcraft or magic.

What is fantasy?