Literary Terms

Question 1

An author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story

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Foreshadowing

Question 2

Written or spoken conversation between two or more people that propels the action

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Dialogue

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Using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants

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Alliteration

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Using words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses

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Imagery

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Figurative lang. that presents something as being smaller or less important than it actually is

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Understatement

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Slang used by a certain group of people

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Jargon

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The problem a character faces in a story

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Conflict

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An exaggeration of truth

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Hyperbole

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The time and place a story occurs

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Setting

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Anything that stands for or represents something else

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Symbolism

Question 11

Figure of speech that includes normally contradictory (opposite) terms

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Oxymoron

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A sequence of events, the main events of a story

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Plot

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Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally

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Figurative Language

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The writer’s method to create mood and tone.

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Style

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Showing similarities between two things that have a common relationship

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Analogy

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Necessary parts of literature –something a story cannot do without!

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Literary Elements

Question 17

An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected

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Situational Irony

Question 18

A division or type of literature.

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Genre

Question 19

A literary work’s central message, concern, or purpose – the moral to the story

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Theme

Question 20

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

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Personification

Question 21

A reader’s immediate emotions related to a word

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Connotation

Question 22

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in a literary work

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Allusion

Question 23

The literal meaning of a word as opposed to the feelings the word suggests

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Denotation

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The use of words that imitate the sound associated with something, sound words

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Onomatopoeia

Question 25

Perspective from which a story is told

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Point of View

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A figure of speech that uses “like” or “as” to make a direct comparison betweentwo unlike ideas

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Simile

Question 27

A play on words, using a word in a humorous way instead of using the actualmeaning

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Pun

Question 28

A tool used to make your writing stronger or more interesting

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Literary Devices

Question 29

Expressing the exact opposite of the literal meaning of what is being said, sarcasm

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Verbal Irony

Question 30

When something is described as though it were something else (without using “like” or “as”)

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Metaphor

Question 31

A scene that takes the story line back in time from the current point

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Flashback

Question 32

When the reader or audience knows something that a character does not

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Dramatic Irony

Question 33

A commonly used phrase that has a figurative meaning

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Idiom

Question 34

When an author describes a character and the character traits

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Characterization

Question 35

The FEELING the reader gets from the words used in the story

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Mood

Question 36

The way an author uses language to write a story

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Tone

Question 37

Using a word over and over for effect in writing

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Repetition

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