Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
Literary Terms 3
Literary Terms 4
Literary Terms 5
100
What is a very typical example of a certain person or thing.
Archetype
100
What is a person in a novel, play, or movie?
Character
100
(DAILY DOUBLE!!!!)What is the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot?
Denouement
100
What is the position of the narrator in relation to the story?
Point of View
100
What is the leading character, hero, or heroine in a drama or other work of literature?
Protagonist
200
What is the time period and location of the story?
Setting
200
What is a word, phrase, or image in a piece of literature than represents something larger than the obvious idea?
Symbol
200
What is the unifying or dominate idea of a work of literature
Theme
200
What is the unifying or dominate idea of a work of literature?
Tone
200
What is resemblance of sound?
Assonance
300
What is a pair of successive lines of verse?
Couplets
300
What is a line down or verse?
Line
300
What is the act of repeating?
Repetition
300
What is identity in sound of some part?
Rhyme
300
What are the pattern of rhymes in a poem?
Rhyme Scheme
400
Who narrates or talks throughout the play?
Speaker
400
What is an arrangement of a certain number of lines?
Stanza
400
What is a writer’s choice of words?
Diction
400
What is the main character in a tragedy?
Tragic Hero
400
What are words spoken by an actor to the people watching a play, that the other characters in the play do not hear?
Aside
500
What is a long speech, by one actor in a play or movie?
Monologue
500
What is an event that causes great suffering, destruction, or distress?
Tradgedy
500
What is entertainment with jokes, intent to make the audience laugh
Comedy
500
What is the weakness of a character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero?
Tragic Flaw
500
What is it called when a Bryan Griffin thinks out loud regardless of any of the people who are listening?
Soliloquy