Literature in your mind

Form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group

A poem that tells a story

"The wilted flowers begged for water" is a:

Prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people

Prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people.

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

"Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of

A long work of fiction.

A conversation between characters

Formal division of lines in a poem

A central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work

A device that compared two things without using as or like

One of the three major types of literature, the others being prose and drama

The baby's skin is as smooth as silk

A person or an animal who takes part in the action of a literary work

The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words

The use of words that imitate sounds

Lesson taught by a literary work

A device in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas.

Speech that attempts to convince the reader to adopt a particular opinion or course of action.

A speaker or character who tells a story

Type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

Obvious and intentional exaggeration

The time and place of the action

A long work of fiction