A nonfiction account of a person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
100
An interruption in the chronological order of a narrative to describe an event that happened earlier.
What is flashback?
100
A work of fiction shorter than a novel but longer than a short story.
What is a novella?
100
The relationship of the narrator, or storyteller, to the story.
What is point of view?
100
The time and place in which the events of a short story, novel, novella, or play occur.
What is setting?
200
A method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
200
A short, usually simple tale that teaches a moral and sometimes uses animal characters.
What is a fable?
200
A type of narrative nonfiction that expresses an author's personal experience of an event or period.
What is a memoir?
200
The pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
200
A group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song.
What is a stanza?
300
A reference to a well known character, place, or situation from history, art, music, pop culture, etc.
What is allusion?
300
A traditional story passed down orally long before being written down. Generally the author of these is anonymous. Some examples include animal or trickster stories, legends, or myths.
What is a folktale?
300
These are usually short, and they express strong personal feelings about a subject or an event.
What are lyric poems?
300
Speech, writing, or other attempts to influence ideas or opinions, often through the use of stereotypes, faulty generalizations, logical fallacies, and/or emotional language.
What is propaganda?
300
The main message of a story, poem, novel, or play, usually expressed as a general statement.
What is theme?
400
A serious poem mourning death or a great loss.
What is an elegy?
400
A form of expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the opposite of their literal meaning.
What is irony?
400
A lyric poem, usually rhymed, often in the form of an address and usually dignified or lofty in subject.
What is an ode?
400
Writing that is similar to everyday speech and language, as opposed to poetry.
What is prose?
400
A poem containing 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. These have strict patterns of rhyme and usually deal with a single theme, idea, or sentiment.
What is a sonnet?
500
The assignment of human characteristics to animals, or inanimate objects.
What is anthropomorphism?
500
A figure of speech that belongs to a particular language, people, or region and whose meaning cannot be obtained, and might even appear ridiculous, by joining the meanings of the words composing it.
What is an idiom?
500
A long speech by a single character in a play or solo performance.
What is a monologue?
500
This is where the narrator reveals the thoughts of only one character, but refers to that character as "he," "she."
What is a limited third-person point of view?
500
An author's distinctive style or the particular speech patterns of a character in a story.