English 9 Literary Terms

Question 1

What are the three types of irony?

Answer 1

Dramatic
Situational
Verbal

Question 2

What is Dramatic Irony?

Answer 2

we know more than a character.

Question 3

What is Situational Irony?

Answer 3

when there is disparity between what is expected and what occurs.

Question 4

What is Verbal Irony?

Answer 4

when someone says the opposite of what they really mean.

Question 5

symbolism

Answer 5

when one thing is used to represent something dissimilar.

Question 6

personification

Answer 6

when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art,

Question 7

simile

Answer 7

Directly compares two things. Similes differ from other metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using comparison words such as “like”, “as”, “so”, or “ than”,

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.

Question 9

hyperbole

Answer 9

use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech

Question 10

Figurative Language

Answer 10

phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across

Question 11

plot

Answer 11

sequence of events in a literary work.

Question 12

resolution

Answer 12

part of the story that ends the conflict and ties up loose ends.

Question 13

exposition

Answer 13

background info at the beginning of a literary work.

Question 14

foreshadowing

Answer 14

a hint of what is to come in a literary work.

Question 15

third person POV

Answer 15

narrator exists outside the story

Question 16

first person POV

Answer 16

narrator is a character in the story (“I”)

Question 17

point of view

Answer 17

vantage point from which a story is told.

Question 18

climax

Answer 18

the point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved.

Question 19

flashback

Answer 19

interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character’s life

Question 20

setting

Answer 20

the time and place of a literary work.

characterization

Question 21

theme

Answer 21

the author’s message (see also central idea)

Question 22

conflict (including internal vs. external)

Answer 22

characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces.

Question 23

central idea

Answer 23

the overarching idea developed throughout a text; author’s message.

Question 24

suspense -

Answer 24

quality of wanting to know what will happen next in a literary work

Question 25

imagery

Answer 25

the author uses vivid images to describe a phenomenon

Question 26

alliteration

Answer 26

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Question 27

tone

Answer 27

the author’s attitude toward the subject of a text.

Question 28

onomatopoeia

Answer 28

word whose sound imitates its meaning.

Question 29

allusion

Answer 29

a reference to something well-known that exists outside the text.