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Leftovers
Is this the real life?
Or is it just fantasy?
Say What You Mean
You're Being Dramatic
100
A FIGURE OF SPEECH THAT GIVES HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS TO INANIMATE OBJECTS OR ABSTRACT IDEAS
What is personification?
100
LITERATURE OR CINEMA THAT IS NOT FICTIONAL; A STORY BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS
What is nonfiction?
100
A BRIEF WORK OF FICTION
What is a short story?
100
THE DICTIONARY MEANING OF A WORD
What is denotation?
100
STORY WRITTEN TO BE PERFORMED BY ACTORS
What is drama?
200
A DELIBERATE AND OFTEN OUTRAGEOUS EXAGGERATION
What is hyperbole?
200
A LONG WORK OF FICTION
What is a novel?
200
SOMETHING INVENTED BY THE IMAGINATION OR FEIGNED; SPECIFICALLY, AN INVENTED STORY
What is fiction?
200
A SPEECH GIVEN BY ONE PERSON
What is (a) monologue?
200
STRUGGLE BETWEEN A CHARACTER AND AN OUTSIDE FORCE
What is external conflict?
300
A FIGURE OF SPEECH THAT COMBINES TWO OPPOSING OR CONTRADICTORY IDEAS
What is (an) oxymoron?
300
A NARRATION INTENDED TO TEACH A LESSON
What is a fable?
300
A PLOT DEVICE THAT ALLOWS THE AUTHOR TO JUMP BACK IN TIME PRIOR TO THE OPENING SCENE
What is flashback?
300
A LONG SPEECH MADE BY A CHARACTER WHO IS ALONE; REVEALS PRIVATE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS TO THE AUDIENCE
What is (a) soliloquy?
300
SERIOUS DRAMA WITH A SORROWFUL OR DISASTROUS CONCLUSION
What is tragedy?
400
THE STRUCTURE OF A SENTENCE; THE ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE
What is syntax?
400
A WORK OF FICTION THAT IS LONGER THAN A SHORT STORY BUT SHORTER THAN A NOVEL
What is a novella?
400
TYPES OF LITERATURE; COMMONLY THREE MAJOR EXAMPLES--POETRY, PROSE, AND DRAMA
What is genre?
400
THE EMOTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF A WORD OR PHRASE, AS OPPOSED TO ITS EXACT MEANING
What is connotation?
400
A LIGHTER FORM OF DRAMA PRIMARILY MEANT TO AMUSE
What is comedy?
500
A REFERENCE IN A WORK OF LITERATURE TO SOMETHING OUTSIDE THE WORK, ESPECIALLY TO A WELL-KNOWN HISTORICAL OR LITERARY EVENT, PERSON, OR WORK
What is (an) allusion?
500
A SIMPLE STORY TOLD TO ILLUSTRATE A MORAL TRUTH
What is a parable?
500
FICTIONAL TALE THAT EXPLAINS THE ACTIONS OF GODS OR HEROES OR THE CAUSES OF NATURAL PHENOMENA
What is (a) myth?
500
A LITERARY DEVICE IN WHICH A CHARACTER SPEAKS TO ANOTHER CHARACTER, WITHOUT ANY OTHER CHARACTERS BEING AWARE OF WHAT IS SAID
What is (an) aside?
500
STRUGGLE WITHIN A CHARACTER DEALING WITH HIS PERSONAL BELIEFS, VALUES, AND EMOTIONS
What is internal conflict?