Creative Writing Final Exam Review

Used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter, three quatrains.

The techniques the writer uses to develop characters.

The most tense moment of a story

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or conditions

Comparison of two seemingly unlike objects using “like” or “as.”

Imagery appealing to sound

Repetition of initial sounds at the beginning of words.

Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present, inanimate object, or concept.

The action that leads to the resolution

A character whose traits contrast with those of another character.

Character is fully developed

Imagery appealing to taste

Poetry that is written to look like prose

Imagery appealing to smell

A near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels.

Imagery appealing to sight

The end of a story

Character does not change over the course of the work.

The inciting incident that propels the action of the story.

Character changes over the course of the work.

Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of words

The introduction of characters and setting

Main character of a piece of writing.

Character displays just one type of trait

Character that goes against the main character

Comparison of two seemingly unlike objects stated outright.

Repetition of vowel sounds in the middle or end of words

Imagery appealing to touch