Column #1
The implied or associative meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
A main character who is in opposition to or in conflict with the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
The repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
The point of highest interest in a literary work.
What is the climax?
A nonfiction story written by an author about himself/herself.
What is autobiography?
The introduction and development of the personalities of the individuals in a piece of literature.
What is characterization?
A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions.
What is allegory?
A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response.
What is archetype?
Occurs when a word, phrase, situation, or event can be interpreted in more than one way; both interpretations must be supportable from the text.
What is ambiguity?
A reference to something literary, historical, or mythological that the author assumes the readers will know.
What is allusion?
Conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
Two consecutive lines with words at the end that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
A problem, issue, or challenge that must be solved. This is the driving force for all the action and events in the plot.
What is conflict?
Repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words (not the same as rhyme)
What is assonance?
An expression that has been overused to the extent that its freshness has worn off.
What is cliche?
Side comments by a character on stage, which the other characters appear not to hear or react to.
What is an aside?
A brief narrative (story) that focuses on a particular incident or event.
What is anecdote?
The resolution or outcome of the story.
What is denouement?
A nonfiction story about a person’s life written by someone else.
What is biography?
A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way.
What is analogy?
The literal meaning of a word (the precise dictionary definition).
What is denotation?
A variety of speech characterized by its own particular grammar or pronunciation, often associated with a particular geographical region.
What is dialect?
A cleansing of the spirit when feelings of pity and sorrow arise from tragedy.
What is catharsis?
Repetition of the same consonant sounds in neighboring words.
What is consonance?