Literary Terms
The name for a person, animal, or figure represented in a story.
What is a character?
This type of comparison compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This playwright wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet".
Who is William Shakespeare?
She wrote for children's TV shows like "Clarissa Explains It All" before writing "The Hunger Games".
Who is Suzanne Collins?
This prize has many categories including science, literature, and promoting peace.
What is the Nobel Prize?
This is the way an author reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
This figure of speech give human traits to something that is not human (ex/weather or animals).
What is personification?
This person wrote the popular musical "Hamilton".
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
This author wrote the "Twilight" series and its spin-offs.
Who is Stephanie Meyer?
This award is given by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
This is the term used to indicate a discussion between characters.
What is dialogue?
This figure of speech is commonly referred to as "a play on words". It is based off of words or phrases that have more than 1 meaning.
What is a pun?
This musical, named after a hair product, features the character Tracy Turnblad in it.
What is "Hairspray"?
This book, written by Margaret Mitchell in 1937, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and is titled "___ ____ ___ Wind".
What is "Gone With the Wind"?
This many women have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
What is 16?
This means "the sequence of events in a story".
What is plot?
This figure of speech uses extreme exaggeration to emphasize qualities or features.
What is a hyperbole?
This is the name of the "Wicked Witch of the West" in Wicked.
What is Elphaba?
Mildred Wirt Benson wrote more than 100 books for young readers including many about this young female detective.
What is the "Nancy Drew" book series?
This was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
This term refers to the narrator's position in a story. There is 3 versions.
What is point of view?
This figure of speech refers to a repetition of words with the same consonant sound at the beginning (ex/picture perfect).
What is an alliteration?
This was the first Broadway musical to have an all female creative team.
What is "Waitress"?
This enlightenment thinker was a feminist in the 18th century and wrote "A Vindication of Rights".
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This British Prime Minister won a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Winston Churchill?