Literary Terms & Definitions

Question 1

The use of symbols to represent bigger ideas. The meaning is different than the literal sense.

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Symbolism

Question 2

When the reader knows something that the characters in the story or play do not.

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Dramatic Irony

Question 3

The end of the story where the conflict is solved.

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Resolution

Question 4

"The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window."

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Simile

Question 5

The outcome of a situation is different that what was expected.

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Situational Irony

Question 6

The feeling that the reader gets when reading a text.

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Mood

Question 7

Main character in a story.

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Protagonist

Question 8

Comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”

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Metaphor

Question 9

"An apprehensive night crawled by like a wounded snake."

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Simile

Question 10

What literary element is used here? -"The Cossack was the cat. He was the mouse."

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Metaphor

Question 11

A literary work whose content is based on the imagination and not on fact.

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Fiction

Question 12

Author’s use of hints or clues to the reader about what will happen later on in the story.

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Foreshadowing

Question 13

Sarcasm

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Verbal Irony

Question 14

Narrator is not part of story. Narrator says what many of the characters are feeling, thinking.

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3rd Person Omniscient POV

Question 15

Central idea of a work of literature. Author’s message to the reader.

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Theme

Question 16

Narrator addresses the reader and uses “you”/ story is told through the reader’s point of view.

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2nd Person POV

Question 17

The author directly tells the reader something about the character.

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Direct Characterization

Question 18

Exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.ex. I’ll just die if I can’t go to the concert!

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Hyperbole

Question 19

A chain of related events that makes up a story.

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Plot

Question 20

Narrator is not part of story.Narrator explains what one of the characters is feeling, thinking

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3rd Person Limited POV

Question 21

The problem in the story. It is usually a problem the protagonist faces.

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The Conflict

Question 22

Methods that make the reader deduce what the character is like from hints in the texts.

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Indirect Characterization

Question 23

Reference to a person/place/thing or idea of historical/cultural/literary or significance.

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Allusion

Question 24

Reason why a character acts, thinks, or feels a certain way.

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Motivation

Question 25

Humanlike actions, characteristics, or qualities are ascribed to an animal, place, or thing.

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Personification

Question 26

Series of events that occur as the protagonist attempts to resolve the conflict. Ends at climax

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Rise in Action

Question 27

The author’s attitude toward the subject he or she is writing about.

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Tone

Question 28

The point of no return in the plot.

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Climax

Question 29

Time, place, and mood developed within a story.

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Setting

Question 30

Language that helps the reader form mental pictures; (similes, metaphors, and personification)

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Figurative Language

Question 31

The use of words that imitate sounds.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 32

Character has a struggle within him or herself.

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Internal Conflict

Question 33

What literary element is this? - "The muck sucked viciously at his foot..."

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Personification

Question 34

Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as.”

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Simile

Question 35

Rival or opponent of the protagonist.

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Antagonist

Question 36

Told by a character in the story/ limited to what the character observes/ is told. “I” is used

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1st Person POV

Question 37

Two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.ex. clearly confused, same difference

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Oxymoron

Question 38

An interruption of the current action to present events that took place in an earlier time.

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Flashback

Question 39

Character struggles with another person, nature, or outside force.

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External Conflict

Question 40

Beginning of a story; author introduces the setting, characters, background information, etc.

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Exposition

Literary Terms & Definitions

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