Literary Terms

A story written to be performed by actors in front of an audience

Writing or speech that tells a story

The repetition of similar vowel sounds

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A drama that has a happy ending

Descriptive language that appeals to the senses

Action, Comedy, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction. etc,.

A reference from a well known item from another source

Poetry with no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, or stanza

Information, especially of a biased nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view

The point of greatest emotional intensity

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A person or force opposed to the central character

Which of the following is considered a literary Epic

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement are part of:

Using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose&criticize people's stupidity or vices

The struggle between opposing forces

A complex comparison that shows similarities between dissimilar things

Literature in which situations and characters are created by the author

Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

Without my contacts I am blind as a bat!

the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic

The roundest knight at KingArthur’s table was Sir Cumference. He got his size from too much pi

Literature about real people, places, and events

The repetition of consonant sounds

Like sounds used at the ends of lines of poetry

Clues that prepare readers for the events that will happen later

A work in which the characters, settings, or events stand for something beyond themselves

Buzz! Splat! Pop!

Her hair was a fierce lion's mane, never washed and sticking out in wild directions.