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is the time and place in which the story takes place.
Setting
Background
Location
Place
2
is a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme.
Rhythm
Rhyme
Stanza
Quatrain
3
the practice of beginning an epic
Turning point
Stanza
Epic
In Media Res
4
is a remark made mockingly, ironically, or in bitter contempt.
Idiom
Sarcasm
Mockery
Irony
5
a lyrical stanza written in praise for a person, event, or thing.
Orange
Order
Ode
Oder
6
a specialized set of terms and language that is used in a particular context and setting.
Allegory
Caesura
Quatrain
Jargon
7
a type of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering
Repetition
Setting
Conflict
Tragedy
8
a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to be contrasted
Antithesis
Quatrain
Stanza
Irony
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things
Smiling
Smile
Simile
Smirking
10
a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
Rhyme
Theme
Rhythm
Nemo
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a literary l device in which a word or group of words is repeated in successive clauses
Khorana
Allusion
Anaphora
Stanza
12
a dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meanings.
Dictionary
Connotation
Denotation
Diction
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the language used by the people of a specific area class district or any other group of people.
Setting
Intellect
Dialect
Tradegy
14
refer to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly
Allegory
Caesura
Connotation
Paradox
15
a literary element, is generally described as the structural to a reader, listener, or viewer.
Organization
Narrative Structure
Structure
Format
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to use figurative language to represent object and actions that appeals to our physical senses.
Echolocation
Imagery
Image
Senses
17
an author employs to let the readers hear and see what takes place in a story, poem, or essay.
View Point
Point of View
3rd Person
Simple Answer
18
an understatement in which a positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite.
Litotes
Hyperbole
Characterization
Ode
19
a repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
Denotation
Consonance
Connotation
Assonance
20
form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics
Characterization
Hyperbole
Personification
Description
21
refers to the omission of a conjunction such as “and” or “as” from a series of related clauses.
Asyndeton
Connotative
Polysyndeton
Stanza
22
the attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work's central theme or subject.
Mood
Attitude
Tone
Conflict
23
a literary device that can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse
Couplet
Coup
Out of Office
Removal
24
a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis.
Irony
Hyper Exaggeration
Hyper Sonic
Hyperbole
25
treating of a character so that the character is immediately identified with a group
False Claim
Foreshadow
Stereotype
Archetype
26
a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way.
Conceit
Control
Consent
Permission
27
literary device that demonstrates the short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables
Quatrain
Stanza
Rhyme
Rhythm
28
Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or the similar in it meaning.
Prable
Parallel
Parallelism
Parody
29
a repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs.
Rhythm
Rhyme
Allusion
Caesura
30
turning point or climax is the point of highest tension in a narrative
Turning Point
Change
Climax
Exposition
31
a long narrative poem, which is usually related to heroic deeds of a person
Narrative
Hero
Allegory
Epic
32
one who tells a story.
Narratoring
Speaker
Narrator
Narruntor
33
a narrative element with symbolic meaning that repeats throughout a work of literature.
Reference
Allusion
Hint
Motif
34
hidden comparison between two things that aren't related but share some common characteristics
Simile
Allegory
Hyperbole
Metaphor
35
the created narrative voice of the poem.
Speaking
Narrator
Narration
Speaker
36
literary element that evoke certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions
Atmosphere
Tone
Environment
Mood
37
a stressed and unstressed syllable pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem.
Meter
Rhyme
Stanza
Quatrain
38
an imitation of a particular writer exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect
Cover
Parody
Joke
Copy
39
a figure of speech, which presents a short story, typically with a moral lesson at the end.
Parrot
Parable
Paris
Allegory
40
a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole
Synecdoche
Sin
Hard Question
Doche
41
Word in which ideas places characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative
Conclusion
Oxymoron
Juxtaposition
Paradox
42
a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters,
Motif
Moral
Allegory
Story
43
use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities
Allusion
Representation
Symbolism
Symbol
44
Using irony and humor to expose foolishness and corruption of a individual.
Hyperbole
Funny
Humor
Satire
45
a literary device where words in a line of poetry share the same beginning consonant sound
litterateur
Littering
Literacy
Alliteration
46
a unit of meter where the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is
Meter
Stanza
Rhythm
Iambic
47
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing mean
Metonymy
iambic
Trochee
Meter
48
a literary device that defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction
Allegory
Connotation
Denouement
Denotation
49
a literar
y
term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story.
Resolution
Exposition
Plot
Story
50
a short piece of fiction that features animals in t usually includes or illustrates a moral.
Fiction
Moral
Fable
Non Fiction
51
device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession to achieve an effect
Polysyndeton
Turning Point
Denotation
Meter
52
a indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, and literacy.
Illusion
Allude
Allusion
Confusion
53
a style of speaking or writing, determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.
Diction
Addiction
Dictionary
Imagery
54
a character or figurative mask that an actor, writer, or singer takes on in order to perform.
Guise
Persona 5
Persona
Mask
55
the arrangement of words into a sentence that make sense in a given language.
Rhyme
Stanza
Syntax
Rhythm
56
figure of speech in which words are used in a way that the word meaning is different than real
Irony
Motif
Conceit
Hyperbole
57
a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces
Conflict
Problems
Resolution
Solution
58
is the main character in a story, novel, drama, or other literary work.
Narrator
Protagonist
Main character
Antagonist
59
is the repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words.
Caesura
Foreshadowing
Assonance
Anaphora
60
Speech which uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful.
Spanish
Voice
Figurative Language
English
61
Figure of speech usually represented by a exclamation point to speak to someone not present.
Exclamation
Asyndeton
Sarcasm
Apostrophe
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a device used in descriptive writing to create a exaggerated silly comic effect.
Allegory
Abstract
Drawing
Caricature
63
a character, that is an obstacle or is in direct conflict with the protagonist.
Dr.Drakken
Shego
Antagonist
Villain
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a verse with four lines
Rhyme
Stanza
Quatrain
Rhythm
65
a statement that appears to be self-contradictory
Contradiction
Paradox
Oxymoron
Juxtaposition
66
is a figure of speech in which two seemingly opposing and contradictory elements are juxtaposed
Contradiction
Paradox
Oxymoron
Crossing
67
Four metrical feet of two syllables each alternating between stressed and unstressed syllables
Trochee Meter
Roach
Troch
Trochaic
68
a pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythm of natural speech rather than metric.
Supernova
Caesura
Kaesura
Casserole
69
means a type of art, literature, or music characterized by a specific form, content, and style.
Class
Archetype
Type
Genre
70
the use of informal words, phrases, or even slang in a piece of writing.
denotation
Colloquialism
connotation
Diction
71
a literary device that explains the details about a character in a story.
Background
Description
Characterization
Character
72
a recurrent symbol or motif throughout storys that represents universal pattern of human nature
Allegory
Moral
Motif
Archetype
73
refers to a word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes.
Omicron
Monopoly
Octameter
Onomatopoeia
74
A monologue used to reveal the character innermost thoughts.
Motif
Connotation
Soliloquy
Caesura
75
a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
Allegory
Foreshadow
Motif
Allusion
