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Who is telling the story?
Poetry
Important Story Pieces
Figurative Language
Author's Choice/Other
100
What literary term can be defined as the person telling the story?
What is the narrator?
100

What do we call the different "paragraphs" in a poem?

Stanzas

100
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
100
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
100
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term? Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"
What is a symbol?
200
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
200

What is the poetry term for the chorus of a poem, or the part that gets repeated often?

Refrain

200
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
200
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
200
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject defines what literary term?
What is tone?
300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300

What do we call the way that the poem flows?

Rhythm

300
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
300
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
300
An author's specific way of writing, word choices, etc. describes what literary term?
What is style?
400
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint, this is what point of view?
What is third person point of view?
400

What is Soliloquy?

Monologue or spoken thoughts by a single character

400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is sensory imagery?
400
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is irony?
400
A character that shows only one trait (like Mrs. Mitty) is known as what?
What is a flat character?
500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, this is known as which point of view?
What is omniscient point of view?
500

What is anaphora?

Repetition of word at the start of successive clauses

500
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
500
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
500
A character that shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues (like Walter Mitty) is known as what?
What is a round character?