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Question 1

Act

Answer 1

A major division of a play. A play may be subdivided into many acts.

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

The repetition of constant sounds, most often found at the beginning of words and syllables.

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

A reference in a work of literature to a well known character, please, or situations in history from another work of literature, music, or art.

Question 4

Antagonist

Answer 4

A person or force that opposes the protagonist in fiction

Question 5

Anthropomorphism

Answer 5

Giving human characteristics to an animal or object

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

The repetition of vowel sounds especially in a line of poetry

Question 7

Authors purpose

Answer 7

The intention of the writer

Question 8

Autobiography

Answer 8

The story f a persons life written by that person

Question 9

Ballad

Answer 9

A short song or poem

Question 10

Biography

Answer 10

A story of a persons life written by someone else

Question 11

Character

Answer 11

A person or creature in a literary work

Question 12

Characterization

Answer 12

The methods a writer uses to develop the personality of a character

Question 13

Climax

Answer 13

The point of greatest interest or suspense in a narrative

Question 14

Comedy

Answer 14

A type of drama that is humorous

Question 15

Conflict

Answer 15

The central struggle between opposing forces

Question 16

Consonance

Answer 16

The repetition of identical or similar end or intermediate consonant sounds

Question 17

Couplet

Answer 17

Two successive lines of verse that form a unit and usually rhyme.

Question 18

Description

Answer 18

Writing that creates an impression of a setting, a person, an animal, an object, or an event by appealing to one of the 5 senses.

Question 19

Dialect

Answer 19

A variation of language spoken by a particular group or by many people within a geographical region

Question 20

Dialogue

Answer 20

Conversation between characters