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Literary Terms
Poetic Elements
Vocabulary
Theme and Main Ideas Etc.
Variety
100
Going back in time before the present action.
What is flashback.
100
The group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
When you use words, phrases or sentences around unknown words to define them.
What are context clues?
100
This is what the story is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
100
Where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
200
A hint about what will happen.
What is foreshadowing.
200
A musical quality based on the number of stressed syllables in a line.
What is rhythm?
200
A guess about what will happen based on the facts that you have.
What is an inference?
200
The message or lesson that the passage is trying to get across.
What is the theme?
200
The series of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
300
Giving human qualities (characteristics) to non-human objects.
What is personification?
300
When words end with the same sound.
What is rhyme?
300
The way in which an author organizes his/her thoughts.
What is structure?
300
A piece of information that helps to support or explain the main idea.
What is a detail?
300
A problem the character(s) must face.
What is conflict?
400
A comparison using the terms "like or as". An example: The girl was as quiet as a mouse.
What is a simile?
400
Using a word or phrase more than once.
What is repetition?
400
Information that can be proven true through a reliable source.
What is a fact?
400
The "fancy" word for the types of writing.
What is genre?
400
The way in which the problem gets solved.
What is the resolution?
500
Something that stands for or represents something else. An example, the American flag represents freedom. The flag is a ______________.
What is a symbol?
500
The rhyming pattern in a poem. An example would be "ababcdcdefefgg".
What is rhyme scheme.
500
The perspective from which the narrator tells a story.
What is point of view?
500
The type of writing based on actual people, events and facts.
What is nonfiction?
500
The events of the story that occur after the conflict is introduced, leading up to the climax.
What is the rising action?