The representation of ideas or moral principles through the use of symbolic characters, events, or objects.
What is an allegory?
100
a short narrative, a story of personal experience of a
particular incident.
What is an anecdote?
100
The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved.
What is the climax?
100
The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel, especially a conversation between two characters.
What is dialogue?
100
An extravagant exaggeration designed for an effect.
What is hyperbole?
200
The repetition of initial consonant sound in neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
200
Any character/force in a literary work that opposes the efforts of the protagonist (hero or main character)
What is an antagonist?
200
In medieval and Renaissance use, the word comedy came to mean any play or narrative poem in which the main characters manage to avoid a disaster and have a happy ending.
What is a comedy?
200
A story written to be acted out on the stage.
What is a drama?
200
The frame of mind or state of feeling created within a piece of writing. The general atmosphere created by the choice of words, setting, images, and details.
What is mood?
300
A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art.
What is an allusion?
300
A relatively short narrative poem, written to be sung, with a simple and dramatic action.
What is a ballad?
300
A problem or opposition between two characters (such as a protagonist and an antagonist), between two large groups of people, or between the protagonist and a larger problem such as forces of nature, ideas, and so on.
What is a conflict?
300
A brief story illustrating a moral, often include talking animals or animated objects as the principal characters.
What is a fable?
300
A word that imitates the sound it represents. Such devices bring out the full flavor of words.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship.
What is an analogy?
400
A person or animal in a story
What is a character?
400
Discovering the meaning of an unknown word by using the
words around it.
What is context?
400
A temporary interruption in the present action so that the reader can witness past events usually in the form of a character's memories, dreams, or narration.
What is a flashback?
400
Imaginative stories about happenings that may be pure
fancy or have some scientific basis.
What is science fiction?
500
The total environment for the action of a fictional work.
What is the setting?
500
A tragic hero has the potential for greatness but is doomed to fail.
What is a tragic hero?
500
Bringing together the ideas, images, or characters to show
how they differ.
What is contrast?
500
A lesson to be drawn from a story; it usually involves a moral issue.
What is the moral?
500
The central character in a literary work. Usually is in conflict against an opponent, or antagonist.