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literary devices
non-literary genders
characrerization
style
non literary terms
100
a phrase, idea, or image that has been used so much that it has lost much of its original meaning, impact, and freshness
What is a Cliché?
100
a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.
What is an Advertisement?
100
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or hero/heroine of a story
What is an Antagonist?
100
The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. The term dialect encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either geographically or socially. Dialect is a major technique of characterization that reveals the social or geographic status of a character.
What is Dialect?
100
a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.
What is a Textbook?
200
deliberate and extravagant exaggeration
What is a Hyperbole?
200
an account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is Biography?
200
A representation or imitation of a person’s physical or personality traits that are so exaggerated they become comic or absurd
What is a Caricature?
200
the choice of words that a writer makes
What is Diction?
200
the words of a song.
What is a Song lyric?
300
The comparison of two similar things to suggest that if they are alike in some respects, they are probably alike in other ways as well
What is an Analogy?
300
a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.
What is a Blog?
300
The reasons, either stated or implied, for a character’s behavior.
What is Character motivation?
300
The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience.
What is Mood?
300
the script of a movie, including acting instructions and scene directions.
What is Screenplay?
400
a reference to another event, person, place, or work of literature - usually implied rather than explicit and often provides another layer of meaning to what is being said
What is an Allusion?
400
a small book or magazine containing pictures and information about a product or service.
What is a Brochure/leaflet?
400
The methods used to present the personality of a character in a work of literature, both direct and indirect.
What is Characterization?
400
The particular perspective brought by a composer, responder or character within a text to the text or to matters within the text. It also entails the position or vantage point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and presented to us.
What is Point of view?
400
a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience.
What is a Radio broadcast?
500
a story or narrative, often told at some length, which has a deeper meaning below the surface
What is ab Allegory?
500
a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine
What is a Cartoon?
500
the main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play, or story
What is a Protagonist?
500
the way in which sentences are structured
What is Syntax?
500
a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused onto film or other light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally.
What are Photographs?