Literary Terms 1
A term used to describe the main character in a story.
What is the a protagonist?
The series of events that happen in a story.
What is plot?
A true account of a person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
Repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words.
Seven snakes slithered silently.
What is alliteration?
A group of flamingos is called this.
What is a flamboyance?
A literary term that describes the struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
The message of a story; the central idea.
What is theme?
A type of fantasy that uses science and technology (robots, time machines, etc.)
What is Science Fiction?
A comparison of two unlike things using "like", "as", or "than".
The water was as smooth as glass.
What is a simile?
The pupil of an octopus' eye is this shape.
What is a rectangle?
The part of the story where the conflict is resolved
What is resolution?
Aliterary device that alludes to a later point in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A story with made-up characters that could happen in real life.
What is Realistic Fiction?
This is an obvious exaggeration.
I have a ton of homework.
What is hyperbole?
This is a law that protects the rights of authors over their creations
What is copyright?
A character who opposes the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
Where or when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is not solved until the end of the story.
What is Mystery?
This makes a non-human thing seem human involving human only actions.
The TV talked all night.
What is personification?
This is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission
What is fair use?
This literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of the story.
What is a character?
A term that means a break in the story where a character thinks about a past event.
What is a flashback?
The story of a real person’s life that is written by that person.
What is an Autobiography?
A word or phrase that is used differently than its intended use.
"My new car cost me an arm and a leg".
What is an idiom?
Works that are free for anyone to use because their copyright has expired are part of this.
What is a public domain?