Who is telling the story?
What literary term can be defined as the person telling the story?
What is the narrator?
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
The literary term for two words used together in a single word or phrase that seem to have an opposite meaning is called?
Oxymoron
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
The part of the plot where the characters and setting are introduced?
What is the exposition?
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
When something stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term?
What a symbolism?
When a character in the story tells the story using I, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?
What is the resolution?
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is imagery?
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint using he or she, this is what point of view?
What is third person point of view?
When the author gives subtle clues as to what will happen later in the story?
What is foreshadowing?
The literary element that evokes feelings in readers through words and descriptions of the setting.
What is mood?
When a word is used to represent a sound, this is known as what literary term?
What is onomatopoeia?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What tone?
An interruption of chronological events where writers insert past events, in order to provide background information or context to the current events of a narrative?
What is flashback?
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
An extreme exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is irony?