An account of a person's life, written or told by another person
What is biography?
100
A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
What is pun?
100
the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem
What is Rhyme?
100
A person in a story
What is character?
200
A kind of writing that explains, gives information, defines, or clarifies an idea
What is exposition?
200
A short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject from a limited and usually personal point of view
What is essay?
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things
What is simile?
200
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem, or the repetition of consonant sounds that are very similar
What is Alliteration?
200
A struggle or clash between opposing characters, or between opposing forces
What is conflict?
300
The kind of writing that ridicules something in order to reveal a weakness
What is satire
300
A kind of writing that aims at convincing the reader or listener to think or act in a certain way
What is persuasion?
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles
What is metaphor?
300
The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem
What is assonance?
300
A reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing, that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or pop culture
What is allusion?
400
A kind of writing or speaking that tells a story
What is narration?
400
A very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about how to get along in life
What is fable?
400
A word or phase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level
What is figure of speech?
400
Poetry that does not tell a story but aims only at expressing a speaker's emotions or thoughts
What is lyric poetry?
400
language that appeals to the senses
What is imagery?
500
A song that tells a story
What is ballad?
500
A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in far-fetched, very silly situations
What is farce?
500
A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
What is personification?
500
A fourteen lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has on of several rhyme schemes
What is sonnet?
500
Words spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character, that are not supposed to be overheard by the others on stage in a scene