Poetry
This literary work utilizes special intensity and rhythm in order to express often emotional ideas and feelings.
What is Poetry
Turning point or point of highest interest in a narrative.
What is the Climax
The arrangement of parts and sections of a text
What is Structure
A character’s physical attributes, values, beliefs, assumptions, biases, and cultural norms.
What is Characterization
A word that replaces a noun
What is a Pronoun
A group of lines in a poem set apart from other lines and groups by spacing and indentation.
What is a Stanza
The problem, question, opposition, or tension in a play or story that the protagonist faces.
What is Conflict
A change in character’s thinking, insight, or another literary choice that creates an emphasis or reveals an insight.
What is a Shift
A character’s traits that are stated explicitly in the text.
What is Direct Characterization
The noun the pronoun is referring to
What is an Antecedent
The pattern at the end of the rhyme.
What is a Rhyme Scheme
The part of a narrative’s plot that introduces the characters and the setting.
What is the Exposition
A structural element of a narrative that interrupts linear chronological time to show readers events that happened in the past.
What is a Flashback
A character’s traits that are implied and require an inference based on a character's actions or words or the reactions of other characters to this character.
What is Indirect Characterization
This is Used to describe situations in which the results of an action are dramatically different than intended.
What is Irony
The rhythm of a poem–based on syllables.
What is a Meter
A literary character’s struggle with psychological, emotional, moral or other conflict within the character’s mind.
What is Internal conflict
Temporary departure from the main point or story
What is Digression
A character who remains unchanged throughout a narrative or drama.
What is a Static Character
One-word universal ideas
What is an Abstract Idea
Two successive lines that rhyme in poetry
The tension between a literary character and another character, a group or other outside force
What is External conflict
A narrative, drama, or poem that does not follow a linear, chronological sequence; it may incorporate flashbacks, stream of consciousness, and other techniques to develop a story.
What is Nonlinear
A character who develops or changes perspective over the course of a narrative or drama.
What is a Dynamic Character
A phrase or assertion that appears to contradict itself (but the contradiction itself may have its own meaning)
What is a Paradox