A person, or anything represented as a person, e.g., a spirit, object, animal, or natural force, in a literary work
What is a character?
100
An overstatement or exaggeration in literature
What is hyperbole?
100
A story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung
What is a ballad?
100
A central idea of a literary work that gives it unity.
What is theme?
100
An example of figurative language that states something that is not literally true in order to create an effect
What is figure of speech?
200
The hero or central character of a literary work
What is a protagonist?
200
A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses
What is imagery?
200
A lyric poem lamenting death
What is an elegy?
200
A lyric poem of 14 lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed
What is a sonnet?
200
An author's method of treating a character so that character is immediately identified with a group
What is stereotyping?
300
A character in a play who sets off the main character or other characters by comparison
What is a foil?
300
A far-fetched simile or metaphor
What is a conceit?
300
The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line break
What is enjambment?
300
Literature designed explicitly to instruct
What is didactic literature?
300
Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths and containing no specific metrical pattern
What is free verse?
400
A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work
What is an antagonist?
400
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, the whole for the part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it
What is synecdoche?
400
The basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry
What is a foot?
400
One sensory experience described in terms of another
What is synesthesia?
400
In literature, especially Greek mythology, a word or phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character
What is an epithet?
500
The method by which the author reveals the personality of a character in a literary work
What is characterization?
500
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
What is metonymy?
500
A close, critical reading of a poem examining the work for meter
What is scansion?
500
The scene in a tragedy which includes the death or moral destruction of the protagonist
What is catastrophe?
500
The author's use of figurative language, diction, syntax, sound effects, and other literary devices.