P.O.V. / CONFLICT
RANDOM WRITING
POETIC DEVICES
Literary Terms A
Literary Terms B
CHARACTERIZATION
100

the perspective from a character

What is first-person point of view?

100

taken from a text

What is excerpt?

100

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Alliteration

100

a contradiction of what we know is true 

What is irony?

100

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work

mood

100

The step-by-step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character

What is characterization?

200

a character's struggle with something happening to them  

What is external conflict?

200

what is the text mainly about

what is the central idea

200

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

What is rhyme?

200

a color/object/idea in a piece of literature that stands for something deeper

What is symbolism?

200

The use of words that imitate sounds

Onomatopoeia

200

Benevolio / Curley

What are static characters?

300

a kind of internal struggle

What is moral dilemma?

300

an essay based on facts with an arguable claim

What is an argumentative essay?

300

A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics

What is personification?

300

Descriptive writing that is rich in details connected to the five senses


What is imagery?

300

A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas

What is a simile?

300

A character that typically causes conflict

What is an antagoinist?

400

A narrator's guilt or struggle 


What is internal conflict?

400

giving credit to a source within the text of an essay

What is in-text citation?

400

A three-lined Japanese verse

What is haiku?

400

a comparison between two unlike things


What is a metaphor?

400

a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking

What is tone?

400

These characters embody noble or heroic traits, but they fail due to a fatal flaw, poor judgment, or a combination of both.

What is a tragic hero?

500

all-knowing narrator

What is omniscient?

500

devices, techniques and components that authors use in literature to create a certain effect or to relay information



What are literary devices?

500

A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit

What is a stanza?

500

When the reader/audience has more info than characters

What is dramatic irony?

500

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

What is allusion?

500

Abigail Williams and Juliet are known as this type 

What are dynamic characters?