Literary Terms

Question 1

Time and Place

Answer 1

Setting

Question 2

The narrator tells the story from his or her own perspective

Answer 2

First Person Point of View

Question 3

A group of words in a poem

Answer 3

Line

Question 4

Contains the who, what, and where in an essay

Answer 4

Introduction

Question 5

A smaller division of a play

Answer 5

Scene

Question 6

Directly compares two unlike things most often using “like” or “as”

Answer 6

Simile

Question 7

A long, uninterrupted speech delivered in the presence of other characters

Answer 7

Monologue

Question 8

Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds

Answer 8

Consonance

Question 9

Describes non-human things as having human attributes

Answer 9

Personification

Question 10

The last sentence of the introduction that previews the claims in the body paragraph

Answer 10

Thesis

Question 11

The main character in a story

Answer 11

Protagonist

Question 12

Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of the words

Answer 12

Alliteration

Question 13

What does CSET stand for?

Answer 13

Claim, Set-up, Evidence, and Tie-In

Question 14

What part of the essay do you find CSET?

Answer 14

Body paragraphs

Question 15

The five senses used by a writer to create images (sensory experiences) in a short story or poem

Answer 15

SSSTT - Sight, Smell, Sound, Touch, and Taste

Question 16

When an audience or reader is aware of something that a character is not

Answer 16

Dramatic Irony

Question 17

What are the three types of irony that we studied?

Answer 17

Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic

Question 18

Compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other

Answer 18

Metaphor

Question 19

Shakespeare’s preferred verse form

Answer 19

Blank Verse or Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

Question 20

The two types of conflict?

Answer 20

Internal (man vs. self) and External (man vs. man, man vs. society)

Question 21

Hint of something to come

Answer 21

Foreshadowing

Question 22

Repetition of the similar consonant and vowel sounds in two or more words

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Rhyme

Question 23

When the narrator knows all the thoughts and feelings of every character

Answer 23

Third Person Omniscient

Question 24

Message of a story or novel

Answer 24

Theme

Question 25

Repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds

Answer 25

Assonance

Question 26

Tension created by events in the story

Answer 26

Suspense

Question 27

A group of lines in a poem

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Stanza

Question 28

Conversation between two or more characters

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Dialogue

Question 29

Something representing something else

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Symbolism

Question 30

The paragraph that “echoes” the thesis

Answer 30

Conclusion

Question 31

A speech delivered while an actor is alone onstage and not in the presence of other characters.

Answer 31

Soliloquy

Question 32

The narrator may have access to the thoughts and feelings of one character or none at all.

Answer 32

Third Person Limited

Question 33

A character who sheds light on another character by comparison or contrast

Answer 33

Foil

Question 34

What did we say the acronym SSSD stands for? Recall these are the four quadrants that we used for poetry analysis.

Answer 34

Summary, Sensory, Structure, and Device

Question 35

A play that presents the downfall of the main character usually through an error in judgment or “tragic flaw”

Answer 35

Tragedy