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100
What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
Alliteration
100
What is a contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality?
Irony
100
What is the action of a play or story that works out the decision made during the climax?
Falling Action
100
What is the arrangement of lines in poetry?
Stanza
100
What is a form of literature that tells a story and deals with the sequence of events or experiences?
Narrative
200
What is going back to an earlier time in a story to make something in the present clearer?
Motif
200
What is the method an author uses to create the appearance and personality of a fictional character?
Characterization
200
What is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion to make a point?
Hyperbole
200
What are the combination of contradictory terms to create a new term?
Oxymoron
200
What is the time and place of the action in a story?
Setting
300
What is a reference within literature to another well-known character, place or time?
Allusion
300
What are words used for descriptive effect in order to convey ideas or emptions?
Figurative Language
300
What is the "word pictures" that writers create to evoke an emotional response?
Imagery
300
What is the perspective or attitude of the narrator in a story?
Point of View
300
What is a concrete thing used to represent something larger and more abstract?
Symbol
400
What is the repetition of vowel sounds in a line or sentence?
Assonance
400
What is the repetition of identical consonant sounds before or after differing vowel sounds?
Consonance
400
What is giving hints of what is to come later in the story?
Foreshadowing
400
What are character types, images, or patterns that recur frequently in the literature of a culture?
Archetype
400
What is the comparison of two unlike things, saying one is the other?
Metaphor
500
What is the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound that it makes?
Onomatopeia
500
What is a slight variation of a language spoken within a particular region or class?
Dialect
500
What is an author's attitude toward the subject or audience?
Tone
500
What is tSettinghe central message of a work of literature often expressed as a general statement about life?
Theme
500
What is Giving inanimate objects human characteristics?
Personification






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