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100

What literary term can be defined as the person telling the story?

What is the narrator or speaker?

100

Poetry is written in this form (hint: it's not prose!)

What is verse?

100

The way in which a writer reveals both the internal and external traits of a protagonist.

What is a characterization?

100
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
100

Poetry that expresses personal feelings or emotions.

What is lyrical

200
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
200

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that sets the pace for poetry.

What is meter?

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

A poem that can be read both forward and backward.

What is a reverse poem.

300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300
The mapping of the sounds at the end of successive lines of poetry. 

What is rhyme scheme?

300

When one character is speaking to another, the writer is creating this. 

What is dialogue?

300
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
300

The type of poetry in which most of the words or phrases of a piece of prose are hidden, revealing only those words that make a new piece of poetry.

What is a blackout poem?

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

Two syllables, one stressed, one unstressed. 

What is feet/foot? 
400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is sensory imagery?
400
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?
400

A love poem written in formal style and with a very specific rhyme scheme; the two types are Petrarchan and Shakespearean. 

What is a sonnet?

500

The part of the plot where the action begins is known as what?

What is the inciting incident?

500

Two successive, rhyming lines of poetry. 

What is a couplet?

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 reference to an outside work of art, as in "You are such a Judas."

What is allusion?

500

A poem of celebration, written as an address to something or someone.

What is an ode?

600

The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?

What is the resolution or denouement?

600

A line of poetry that is 10 syllables, or 5 feet long. 

What is pentameter?

600

The personality of the writer revealed through her or his writing.

What is voice?

600

Peter Piper picked a pail of pickled peppers. 

What is alliteration?

600

Otherwise known as shape or concrete poetry

What is a calligram?

700
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?
700

A stanza of four lines with alternating rhyme.

What is a quatrain? 

700

The author's attitude towards the subject of the writing.

What is tone?

700

Meow! Woof! Pow! Blam!

What is onomatopoeia?

700

A poem written in dedication to a piece of art. 

What is an ekphrasis?

800

The traditional arc of a story, which includes exposition, rising action, climax, etc. Named for the theorist who first plotted it. 

Freytag's Pyramid

800

A line of poetry that continues past one line and into the next without punctuation or pause. 

What is enjambment?

800

The feeling being evoked in a reader by a piece of writing. 

What is mood?

800

"We knit our days together with strings of smiles and laughter"

What is implied metaphor

800

A poem in which the first letter of each line spells a word. 

What is an acrostic?