Literature Study Guide

Brief story told to illustrate a point

A persons account on his or her own life

Overall mood or feeling that work of literature creates

A person or animal in a literary work

The uncertain or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

Prose account that is made up rather than true

Words that imitate sounds

Reference to well-known person or event

Language that appeals to the senses

Contrast between expectation and reality

A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area

A person or animal in a literary work

Reversal of normal word order of a sentence

An account of a person's life written by another person

A meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word

when an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one is said to be another thing

The arrangement of events in the order they occurred

A meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word

A repeated sound, word, phrase or line

Reversal of normal word order of a sentence

A very short humorous or nonsensical poem

A work of literature meant to be performed for an audience

A miraculous change from one shape to another

Use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot

Kind of writing intended to convince reader to think or act in a certain way

Expression that means something different from the literal meaning of the words

Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme

The kind of writing that explains or gives information

Person, place, thing, or event that has meaning itself and stands for somthing beyond itself

A repeated sound, word, phrase or line

Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme

A play on multiple meanings of a word

Exaggerated far-fetched story that is obviously not true but told as if it should be believed

Writing that ridicules something often to bring about change

The writer of a literary work

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one is said to be another thing

Reference to well-known person or event

The series of related events that make up a story

The uncertain or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next

Use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot

Exaggerated far-fetched story that is obviously not true but told as if it should be believed

A miraculous change from one shape to another

A person's account on his or her own life

Language that appeals to the senses

A story of extraordinary deeds that is handed down from one generation to the next

when an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

A play on multiple meanings of a word

A comparison of two things to show how they are alike

Overstating something

Kind of writing intended to convince reader to think or act in a certain way

A story of extraordinary deeds that is handed down from one generation to the next

Contrast between expectation and reality

struggle between opposing forces

A novel, story, or play set during a real historical era

The arrangement of events in the order they occurred

Overstating something

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

A poem of mourning usually about someone who has died

Prose account that is made up rather than true

Overall mood or feeling that work of literature creates

The kind of writing that explains or gives information

A dictionary definition

struggle between opposing forces

A novel, story, or play set during a real historical era

Expression that means something different from the literal meaning of the words

Brief story told to illustrate a point

A poem of mourning usually about someone who has died

A very short humorous or nonsensical poem

Comparison between two unlike things, using like, as, than, or resembles

Kenton Lewis wanted me to put him in this. Pick "Cookie".

Person, place, thing, or event that has meaning itself and stands for somthing beyond itself

A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area

A dictionary definition

The writer of a literary work

Writing that ridicules something often to bring about change

Comparison between two unlike things, using like, as, than, or resembles