Genres
Literary Terms
Figurative Language
100
A story to be performed, consisting of acts and scenes.
What is a play?
100
Groups of lines that have been separated from other groups of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
200
A book that tells a long story about made-up people and events.
What is a novel?
200
The shifting back to events that took place at an earlier time, allowing the narrator to compare what is currently occurring in the story with what occurred earlier.
What is a flashback?
200
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using “like: or “as;” a way of describing something by calling it something else.
What is a metaphor?
300
A piece of writing set out in short lines, often with noticeable rhythm.
What is a poem?
300
A hint, or suggestion, of what’s to come.
What is foreshadowing?
300
The angle from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
400
A book in which the author tells the story of someone else’s life.
What is a biography?
400
An extended solo speech by a character in a play (or sometimes a poem)
What is a monologue?
400
A literary device in which the author attributes human qualities, feelings, or actions, to non-human objects.
What is personification?
500
A book in which the author tells the story of his or her own life.
What is an autobiography?
500
The contrast between what is said and what is meant, or between the appearance of things and their reality.
What is irony?
500
The imitation of natural sounds in word form.
What is onomatopoeia?