This is when an author uses character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.
What is an allegory
100
This is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
100
This is the environment in which the action of a fictional work takes place, including time period, the place, the historical milieu, as well as the social, political, and perhaps even spiritual realities.
What is setting?
100
This is when a story is told using first person pronouns, such as I, and is a character in the story.
What is first person narration?
100
This is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised.
What is an unreliable narrator?
200
This is writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. (ex. Metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, symbolism)
What is figurative language?
200
This involves the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions, often appealing to the five senses.
What is imagery?
200
This is a change or movement in a piece of literature resulting from a realization or insight gained by the sepeaker, character or the reader.
What is a shift?
200
This is a struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story between two people, between a person and nature, or a machine or between a person and a whole society.
What is external conflict?
200
This is a struggle between opposing forces within a person's mind.
What is internal conflict?
300
This is a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature, such as two contrasting elements in a work like good and evil.
What is a motif?
300
This is the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. Setting, tone, and events can affect this.
What is mood?
300
This is a character who acts as a contrast to another character.
What is a foil?
300
This is the attitude of the author toward the reader, audience, or subject matter of a literary work.
What is tone?
300
This is when the writer tells the reader directly what the character is like and/or what the character's motives are.
What is direct characterization?
400
When referring to a writer's word choices, this is the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. These may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes.
What is connotation?
400
This is the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. Think of it as groups of words!
What is syntax?
400
This is when the reader must exercise judgment to put clues together to infer what a character is like, using the character's actions, words, or thoughts.
What is indirect characterization?
400
This is an object, action, character, or scene that represents something more abstract.
What is a symbol?
400
This is the technique of introducing into a narrative material that prepares the reader or audience for future events, actions, or revelations, often involving the creation of mood or atmosphere which suggests an eventual outcome.
What is foreshadow or foreshadowing?
500
This is a perspective from which a story is told in which the narrator, with godlike knowledge, presents the thoughts and actions of any or all characters.
What is third person omniscient?
500
This is a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. These can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical.
What is allusion?
500
This refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clarity, and efficacy.
What is diction?
500
This is when the narrator presents the feelings and thoughts of only one character, presenting only the actions of all the remaining characters.
What is a third person limited omniscient narrator?
500
This is the fundamental or universal idea explored in a literary work, and often are statements the author is making about life through his/her literary work.