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Literary Elements 1
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Denotation
What is the dictionary definition of a word?
100
Hyperbole
What is a gross exaggeration?
100
Tone
What is the attitude a writer takes towards his subject, character or the reader?
100
Voice
What is the writer's or speaker's distinctive use of language in a text?
100
Hamartia
What is a tragric flaw?
200
Symbol
What is an object that stands for something else?
200
Allegory
What is a narrative in which characters stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities?
200
Paradox
What is a statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but that reveals a truth?
200
Diction
What is the writer's or speaker's choice of words?
200
Free verse
What is poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme?
300
Irony
What is a contrast between expectation and reality?
300
Satire
What is a type of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to reveal a weaknes or to bring about social reform.
300
Characterization
What is the author's method of revealing what a character is like?
300
Metaphor
What is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using connective words such as like or as?
300
Euphemism
What is a polite word or phrase used in place of an offensive or crude word or phrase?
400
Flashback
What is an interruption of the present action of the plot to show events that happened earlier in time?
400
Sonnet
What is a 14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter?
400
Assonance
What is the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
400
Repetition
What is the repeating of words, line, or phrases in a literary work.
400
Point of View
What is the vantage point from which a writer narrates or tells the story?
500
Analogy
What is a comparison between two things to show how they are alike?
500
Pun
What is a play on the multiple meaning of a word or tow words that sound alike but have different meanings.
500
Foreshadowing
What the use of clues to hint at events that wil occur later in the plot.
500
Couplet
What is two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm or rhyme?
500
Mood
What is a story's atmoshpere or the feeling it evokes?