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Literary Term & Definitions
Poetry
Figurative Language
Prose
Yard Sale
100
This term describes the people for whom a text is created
What is the audience?
100
A song or poem transmitted orally from generation to generation that tells a story
What is ballad?
100
A word, phrase, or figure of speech that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
100
The author's attitude toward the subject
What is tone?
100
The structure of a story that shapes the action.
What is plot?
200
This refers to the overall feeling in a text, created by descriptions of the setting
What is the mood?
200
This poetic form is unrhymed and does not follow a pattern.
What is blank verse?
200
A device where an object stands in for an idea.
What is a symbol?
200
An account of a person's life written by that person
What is an autobiography?
200
This is the device that gives human traits to non-human things
What is personification?
300
The struggle between two opposing forces?
What is conflict?
300
This is the narrator of a poem.
Who is the speaker?
300
A statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then on closer inspection turns out to make sense.
What is an oxymoron?
300
The central concept to a piece of writing
What is theme?
300
The major subdivision of a poem.
What is stanza?
400
It's like the thesis for a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
400
A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.
What is rhythm?
400
A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be LITERALLY true.
What is hyperbole?
400
The time, place and culture in which the action of a narrative takes place.
What is setting?
400
The character that gives rise to the conflict of the story; an opponent to the hero.
What is the antagonist?
500
The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
500
The type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker
What is free verse?
500
A comparison of two dissimilar things.
What is a metaphor?
500
The turning point of the piece to which the rising action leads.
What is climax?
500
The contrast between what is said and what is meant.
What is verbal irony?