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VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
LITERARY TERMS
VOCABULARY
100
A word that means gloomy (Hint: You can't eat it for breakfast.)
What is Melancholy?
100
To begin--as on a trip--or a voyage. (Hint: It sounds like it would have something to do with dogs--but it doesn't.)
What is EMBARK?
100
A term that is used when the same consonants are repeated in a line of poetry. (Example: Sally sells seashells down by the seashore.)
What is ALLITERATION?
100
A comparison between two things that uses like or as.
What is a SIMILE?
100
Another word for exact. (Hint: It rhymes with nice.)
What is PRECISE?
200
A word that means uncategorized. (Hint: It just doesn't fit anywhere so it's __________.)
What is MISCELLANEOUS?
200
To force out. Landlords do this sometimes to apartment tenants if they don't pay their rent.
What is EVICT?
200
A brief story that has a moral. Usually the story has animals, like a fox and a chicken.
What is a FABLE?
200
The central or main idea in a literary work.
What is a THEME?
200
A person who commits a criminal act. (Hint: It rhymes with elevator.)
What is PERPETRATOR?
300
A handwritten or unpublished document (Hint: It's got the root word for write in it.)
What is a MANUSCRIPT?
300
To increase rapidly. (Hint: Change the form of this word and you can ride it at the mall.)
What is ESCALATE?
300
Another word for the main character of a story. (Hint: It starts with a P.)
What is a PROTAGONIST?
300
The atmosphere a writer creates in a literary work and that a reader feels when he or she reads.
What is MOOD?
300
Earlier or before. (Hint: It rhymes with wire.)
What is PRIOR?
400
Occurring at night. (Hint: Bats are this--and vampires.)
What is NOCTURNAL?
400
Having all sides of the same length. (Hint: Like a triangle.)
What is EQUILATERAL?
400
A character that opposes the protagonist. (Hint: This term starts with an A.)
What is an ANTAGONIST?
400
The attitude a writer has toward the literary work. Another word for this would be voice. (Hint: It starts with T.)
What is TONE?
400
Another word for backslide.
What is RELAPSE?
500
The contradiction of something. (Hint: Picture someone saying, "No, no, no.")
What is NEGATION?
500
Another word for mental calmness or serenity. (Hint: Like every other word in this column, it starts with an E.)
What is EQUANIMITY?
500
A long speech given by an actor alone on a stage. (Hint: It begins with an S.)
What is a SOLILOQUY?
500
A term used when a poet gives human qualities to abstract ideas or objects or animals.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
500
Another word for revenge. (Hint: It rhymes with station and emancipation.)
What is RETALIATION?