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Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Terms/The Pearl
100
It is language which evokes one or all of the five senses in the reader.
What is imagary?
100
A word meaning the opposite.
What is antonym?
100
This is a type of sentence that gives a command or request.
What is imperative sentence?
100
A type of sentence that asks a question.
What is interrogative sentence?
100
A figure of speech which compares two unlike things, not using "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
200
Where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
200
To state the meaning in other or different words.
What is paraphrase?
200
Those watching or listening to a performance.
What is audience ?
200
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is simile?
200
The general idea or insight about life the author wishes to express.
What is theme?
300
Is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
What is irony?
300
This is a repetition of the same first sound or letter in a group of words.
what is alliteration?
300
To indicate before hand things to come; an early clue.
What is foreshadow?
300
It's the decisive moment or the turning point in the story, the high point.
What is climax?
300
An exaggeration or an over-statement.
What is hyperbole ?
400
A category of artistic work based on similar form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
400
When action is interrupted to show an event that happened earlier in time.
What is flashback?
400
A sentence which has two complete thoughts with a comma or conjunction.
What is compound sentence ?
400
A word which imitates its sound like "buzz."
What is onomatopoeia ?
400
This is a brief story which is told or written to teach a moral lesson.
What is parable?
500
The person telling the story.
What is the Narrator ?
500
A character whose values or behavior are in conflict with the hero of a novel, movie, or story.
What is antagonist ?
500
A regional variety of language often with differences in pronunciation.
What is dialect?
500
This is giving human qualities to animals or objects.
What is personification?
500
This is what the baby in 'The Pearl' got bitten by.
What is a scorpion?