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Fiction
Literary Devices and Speakers
Literary Forms and Genres
Poetic and Literary Devices
More Poetic and Literary Devices
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The place where a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
The repetition of a vowel sound in the line of a poem.
What is assonance?
100
A type of writing that can be called free or traditional verse. Some characteristics: rhythm, rhythm, stanza, and lines.
What is poetry?
100
A picture, signal, or sound that gives meaning.
What is a symbol?
100
A reference to a well-known person, place, or event.
What is allusion?
200
The outcome of a story.
What is resolution?
200
Words that are used to poke fun of a person or situation
What are paradox or satire?
200
A type of writing or text that is true.
What is non-fiction?
200
A word that suggests a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A comparison of two different things not using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
The highest point of interest or emotional level in a story.
What is climax?
300
What the story is about or a universal idea.
What is theme?
300
A type of fiction that is performed. An example is "The Crucible" or "Romeo and Juliet".
What is drama?
300
The use of the same word many times.
What is repetition?
300
An extreme exaggeration for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
400
The sequence of events in a story. What the story is about.
What is plot?
400
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
400
This is a type of drama that ends in suffering or death.
What is tragedy?
400
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
400
When something non-human is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
500
Any of the people, animals, or forces which interact to create the plot of a story.
What is character?
500
A unexpected outcome.
What is irony?
500
A type of text or written work that is not true.
What is fiction?
500
The use of two contradictory words which create an image. Examples: civil war good grief
What is an oxymoron?
500
The feeling, atmosphere, or tone created in a story, poem, or other text.
What is mood?