Literary Elements

What is the process of endowing non-human objects with human qualities?

What is an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined together?

What is a less offensive way of saying something unpleasant?

What is a central message or perception about life that is revealed through a literary work?

What is a reference to a well-known person, event, or literary work?

What is the act of presenting hints to events that will occur later in a story?

What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds?

What is a moment of sudden insight in which the nature of a person or situation is revealed?

Which of the following is not a type of external conflict?

What is language that creates pictures by appealing to the senses?

What is a character whose traits contrast with the traits of another character?

What is an overstatement or exaggeration used for dramatic effect?

What term is used to describe a narrator that is all-knowing?

What is any element that appears in one or more works of literature?

What is a comparison of two things using "like" or "as"?

What is a direct comparison of two different things?

What is a version of a language spoken by the people of a particular place, time, or group?

What is the use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer?

What is the part of the plot in which the central conflict is ended?

What is the term for a character who does not change during the course of the story?

What is the dictionary meaning of a word (not its emotional associations)?

What is the time and place in which a literary work occurs?

What is a story, character, or theme that is repeated throughout literature across cultures?

What is the part of the plot in which the characters and setting are introduced?

What is the repetition of vowel sounds?