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Who's that character?!
Don't be so dramatic!
Tell me a story
The Plays Man!
Apples to Oranges
100
A person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
What is a character?
100
Writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, ideas, or events
What is non-fiction?
100
The time and place of the story
What is the setting?
100
The sequence of events in a literary work
What is the plot?
100
Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
A speaker or character who tells a story
What is the narrator?
200
A story that contains fictional characters but true historical events
What is historical fiction?
200
The central message of a literary work
What is the theme?
200
a work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe, a disaster, or great misfortune
What is tragedy?
200
Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
What is a hyperbole?
300
The character or force in conflict with the main character
What is the antagonist?
300
Nonfiction works in which a writer tells the life story of another person
What is biography?
300
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
What is mood?
300
a category or type of literature
What is genre?
300
a figure of speech in which one thing were spoken of as if it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
400
The main character in a literary work
What is the protagonist?
400
Prose writing that tells of imaginary characters and events
What is fiction?
400
The perspective the book, "The Book Thief" was written from.
What is death?
400
A literary work, especially a play, that has a happy ending
What is comedy?
400
Descriptive figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
what is imagery?
500
The act of creating and developing a character
What is characterization?
500
A story written to be performed by actors, and the script is made up of dialogue
What is drama?
500
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject
What is the tone?
500
Literary techniques that portray differences between appearances and reality, or expectation and result
What is irony?
500
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
What is personification?