an account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is biography ?
100
deliberate and extravagant exaggeration.
What is hyperbole ?
100
Persons—or animals or natural forces represented as persons—in a work of literature. Characters may be static (stay the same) or dynamic (undergo a change in personality or attitude) and flat (merely sketched out often stereotypical or stock) or round (more fully developed).
What is character ?
100
a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.
What is advertisement ?
100
the sequence of events in a poem, play, novel, or short story that make up the main story line
What is plot ?
200
a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
What is cartoon ?
200
the use of words to create a picture or 'image' in the mind of the reader
what is imagery ?
200
A representation or imitation of a person’s physical
or personality traits that are so exaggerated they
become comic or absurd.
What is caricature ?
200
a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.
What is blog ?
200
The time and the place in which the action of a book, film, play, and so on happens. Setting may also include mood and atmosphere.
What is setting ?
300
a play for theater, radio, or television.
What is drama ?
300
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; it actually states that one thing is the other.
what is metaphor ?
300
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or
hero/heroine of a story.
What is antagonist ?
300
Provide a critical review or commentary, especially when dealing with works of art or literature (cf. Evaluate).
What is critique ?
300
The central idea or ideas the creator explores through a text.
What is theme ?
400
Any work of literature that includes material that is invented or imagined, that is not a record of things as they actually happened.
What is fiction ?
400
A writer or speaker says one thing and means something entirely different.
what is verbal irony ?
400
The methods used to present the personality of a character in a work of literature, both direct and indirect.
What is characterization ?
400
a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.
What is editorial ?
400
A struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature. It may be external (person v. person, person v. society, person v. nature/fate) or internal (person v. self)
What is conflict ?
500
A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions.
What is genres ?
500
The comparison of two similar things to suggest
that if they are alike in some respects, they are
probably alike in other ways as well.
What is analogy ?
500
the main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play, or story.
What is protagonist ?
500
a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.
What is encyclopedia ?
500
The moment of highest emotional intensity in a plot, when the outcome of the conflict is finally made clear to us.