A name for stories not entirely factual, but at least partially shaped, made up, imagined.
What is Fiction
100
The main or central character in a narrative.
What is protagonist
100
The time and place of a story
What is setting
100
"I am Death, who makes all men equal".
What is Godfather Death
100
A statement that one thing is something else
What is metaphor
200
Type of short story, often humorous narrative told to illustrate a moral
What is fable
200
The central struggle between two or more forces in a story.
What is conflict
200
The attitude toward a subject conveyed in a literary work.
What is tone
200
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!- tear up the planks!-here,here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart!"
What is Thw Tell-Tale Heart
200
A comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually like, as, or than
What is simile
300
Form of storytelling like fable, plot is plausibly realistic, and main characters are human rather than animals
What is parable
300
The most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist.
What is antagonist
300
Word choice or Vocabulary
What is Diction
300
Troop 909 was doomed from the first day of camo; they were white girls, their complexions a blend of ice cream: strawberry, vanilla.
What is Brownies
300
An attempt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it.
What is onomatopoeia
400
A story usually short, that sets forth strange and wonderful events in more or less bare summary, without detailed character- drawing.
What is a tale
400
The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of the work.
What is climax
400
When a writer says one thing but means something quite the opposite.
What is irony
400
Money, the long green, cash, stash, rhino, jack or just plain dough.
What is Money
400
The rhythmic pattern of stresses in verse
What is meter
500
A kind of tale set in a world of magic and enchantment
What is fairy tale
500
Also called resolution or denouement
What is conclusion
500
A conspicuoulsy bitter form of irony in which the ironic statement is designed to hurt or mock its target.
What is sarcasm
500
Honey baby
Lady lovely
Milk shake your
money maker
What is Doo Wop
500
Writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.