Figurative Language
This device attributes human qualities to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
This term uses descriptive language to create mental images of a scene in a reader's head.
What is imagery?
This term is used to describe the highest moment of tension in a plot.
What is climax?
This term is used when referencing who is narrating a poem.
What is a speaker?
This rhetorical appeal appeals to logic.
What is logos?
This device uses two contradictory terms together.
What is oxymoron?
The author's attitude towards a subject or audience.
What is tone?
This term is used to refer to the villain or someone causing the main character conflict in a plot.
This term represents a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This term refers to specific word choices by an author.
What is diction?
This device is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is an allusion?
This term is used when you used a less harsh word or phrase to replace something unpleasant or embarrassing.
What is a euphemism?
This term has to do with when an audience member knows something that the character has not found out/realized yet.
What is dramatic irony?
This type of line in a poem is cut off in the middle of a sentence.
What is an enjambed line?
This term refers to a reoccuring symbol in a literary text.
What is a motif?
This term uses similar grammatical structures for related words, phrases, or clauses in writing for rhythm, clarity, and emphasis?
What is parallelism?
This term is used when one person in a play has a long speech to one or more other characters?
What is a monologue?
This part of the plot provides essential background information and "sets the stage" by revealing key details about characters and setting.
What is exposition?
The last two lines in a poem that stand alone and rhyme with one another.
What is a couplet?
This term is used when the narrator is all knowing and can access the thoughts, feelings, and motives of any character?
What is omniscient?
This term is used when an author compares two things throughout the length of an entire text?
What is an extended metaphor?
This term is used when one person in a play expresses their inner thoughts (alone) in a long speech?
What is a soliloquy?
A character that purposely contrasts with another character (they are opposite each other).
What is a foil?
This type of poem has an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme structure and each line has a certain amount of syllables.
What is a sonnet?
This genre is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
What is a novella?