All lit terms

Question 1

Protaganist

Answer 1

Main character

Question 2

Antagonist

Answer 2

The enemy or force opposing the main character

Question 3

Setting

Answer 3

When and where a story happens

Question 4

Plot

a. Exposition
b. Rising Action
c. Climax
d. Denouement

Answer 4

a. Introduction to main characters
b. Conflict and tension builds
c. Turning point; most intense
d. Resolution; how the story ends

Question 5

Narration/Point of View

a. 1st Person
b. Third Limited
c. Third Omniscient

Answer 5

The perspective through which a story is told

a. The story is told by one of the characters; one at a time
b. The story is told by an outside narrator who only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
c. Story is told by outside narrator who knows the thoughts and feeling of all characters

Question 6

Conflict

a. Internal
b. External

Answer 6

a. The main character struggles with itself

b. The struggle between the main character and another character or element

Question 7

Flat and Round Characters

a. Flat
b. Round

Answer 7

a. Boring

b. Interesting

Question 8

Static and Dynamic Characters

Answer 8

a. Goes through NO internal change

b. Has a major internal change

Question 9

Direct Characterization

Answer 9

The process where a personality of a character is revealed through adjectives and phrases

Question 10

Indirect Characteriation

Answer 10

Character is revealed through dialogue, actions or appearance

Question 11

Tone

Answer 11

General attitude about a place or situation

Question 12

Theme

Answer 12

The subject of a piece of writing

Question 13

Symbol

Answer 13

An object that represents something else

Question 14

Allusion

Answer 14

A reference to something in writing

Question 15

Dialect

Answer 15

A particular form of a language that is specific to a region

Question 16

Foreshadow

Answer 16

Indication of a future event

Question 17

Irony

a. Dramatic
b. Verbal
c. Situational

Answer 17

a. The audience is aware of things the character is not
b. A person writes one thing down and means another
c. Actions have opposite of what was intended

Question 18

Pun

Answer 18

Humor of a word to emphasize its different meanings

Question 19

Aliteration

Answer 19

Same sound at the beginnings of multiple words

Question 20

Figurative Language

a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Personification
d. Implied Metaphor

Answer 20

a. A figure of speech where something is applied in order to suggest resemblance
b. Figure of speech used to make a description better, uses like or as
c. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
d. Compares to things without mentioning one of them

Question 21

Imagery

Answer 21

Visual and descriptive language

Question 22

Onomatopoeia

Answer 22

Word that is associated with a sound

Question 23

Speaker

Answer 23

A narrative voice that is not the author

Question 23

Stanza

Answer 23

A grouped set of lines in a poem

Question 24

Free Verse

Answer 24

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter/rhythm

Question 25

Imagery (Poetry)

Answer 25

Language that appeals to the senses

Question 26

Figurative Language

Answer 26

Figures of speech not meant to be taken literally

Question 27

Extended Metaphor

Answer 27

Metaphor sustained through a large part or all of a poem

Question 28

Mood

Answer 28

Feeling that a text produces in the reader

Question 29

Alliteration

Answer 29

Repetition of same consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Question 30

Consonance

Answer 30

Repetition of some consonant sounds NOT at beginning of words

Question 31

Assonance

Answer 31

Repetition of some vower sounds in non-rhyming words

Question 32

End-Stopped Line

Answer 32

Line ends with punctuation causing the reader to pause (peroid, comma, semicolon)

Question 33

Enjambment

Answer 33

The sentence or phrase runs in to the next line without pause

Question 34

Caesura

Answer 34

Pause at or near the middle of a line