A person, animal or inanimate object portrayed in a literary work.
What is character?
100
A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.
What is conflict?
100
A work that is imaginative or narrative.
What is fiction?
100
The time and place in which a story unfolds.
What is setting?
100
Types of word parts (affixes). (List 3)
What is (1) prefix, (2) root, and (3) suffix?
200
The idea or message of a text.
What is theme?
200
A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
What is exposition?
200
A work that is reportorial, analytical, informative, or argumentative, and based in reality.
What is nonfiction?
200
Conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work.
What is dialogue?
200
A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word.
What is antonym?
300
The author's intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince his or her audience to do or not do something.
What is author's purpose?
300
The turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is at its most intense.
What is climax?
300
The genre of literature represented by works intended for the stage; a work to be performed by actors on stage, radio, or television.
What is drama/play?
300
An organizational device used in literature to present action that occurred before current (present) time of the story. Often introduced as dreams or recollections of one or more characters.
What is flashback?
300
An exaggeration or overstatement (e.g., I had to wait forever.)
What is hyperbole?
400
The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning.
What is irony?
400
The part of a literary plot that is characterized by diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plot's conflicts and complications.
What is falling action?
400
A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.
What is satire?
400
Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions.
What is imagery?
400
An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form.
What is personification?
500
A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work.
What is motif?
500
An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments.
What is foreshadowing?
500
A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
What is allegory?
500
An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event.
What is allusion?
500
A variety of language distinct from the standard variety in pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary.