Easy Terms
Drama Terms
Poetry Terms
Point-of-View
Variety
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile
100
Conversation between characters in fiction or a play
What is dialogue
100
A group of lines that go together in a poem
What is stanza
100
Uses "I" and "me"; a character in the story tells the story
What is first person
100
The word choice of an author
What is diction
200
Man vs. Nature and Man vs. Man are examples of what type of conflict?
What is external conflict
200
The introduction to a play
What is prologue
200
Giving human characteristics to something non-human
What is personification
200
When you only know SOME of the characters' thoughts
What is third person limited
200
A symbol that is demonstrated in multiple works
What is archetype
300
The way the reader feels when reading
What is mood
300
A long speech delivered to other characters
What is monologue
300
A fourteen-line poem
What is sonnet
300
What type of irony is it when you have a surprise ending?
What is situational irony
300
A reference to someone or something famous
What is allusion
400
The lesson or message of a literary work
What is theme
400
Type of irony when the audience knows something a character doesn't
What is dramatic irony
400
Repetition of consonant sounds
What is alliteration
400
Found in nonfiction
What is second person
400
The epilogue/what happens after a conflict has been solved
What is denouement
500
The way the author feels about a subject
What is tone
500
A long speech delivered by a character alone on stage (spelling counts)
What is solilquy
500
When a word sounds the same as it is spelled (yep...spelling counts!)
What is onomatopoeia
500
When you know how all the characters think and feel (yep, spelling counts!)
What is third person omniscient
500
The way a word makes you feel
What is connotation