Literary Terms
S Words
T Words
Potpourri
In Use
100
Feeling of a text
What is mood?
100
Choose
What is select?
100
Written work
What is text?
100
Limit something
What is restrict?
100
“The construction workers are to report to the job ____.”
What is site?
200
Something that represents something else
What is symbol?
200
Place where something occurs
What is site?
200
Long-established custom
What is tradition?
200
Character with multiple traits
What is a round character?
200
"I used the Internet as a ________ in my research for my paper.”
What is resource?
300
Giving human characteristics to other creatures or objects
What is personification?
300
Aimed to find
What is seek?
300
System of ideas intended to explain something
What is theory?
300
Succeed in obtaining
What is secure?
300
“James was a ___________ who completely changed his ways by the end of the story.”
What is dynamic character?
400
The beginning of the story which reveals the characters and situation
What is exposition?
400
Structured plan to accomplish a goal
What is strategy?
400
Author’s feeling toward his characters
What is tone?
400
Asset that can be drawn on by a person
What is resource?
400
“The author made an _______ to current events is his story.”
What is allusion?
500
Reference in a text to another text, person, event, or idea
What is allusion?
500
Look carefully and thoroughly
What is survey?
500
Switch over
What is transfer?
500
Introduce changes into something
What is vary?
500
“It was revealed in the ________ that the main character was a criminal.”
What is exposition?