Literary Terms

Question 0

Antagonist

Answer 0

Opposes the central character

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of sound

Question 2

Dramatic irony

Answer 2

Audience knows something the character does not

Question 3

Flashback

Answer 3

Go to past to clarify the present

Question 4

Foils

Answer 4

Characters that are opposite

Question 5

Foreshadowing

Answer 5

Clues as to what will happen in the future

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

Exaggeration

Question 7

Imagery

Answer 7

To create a mental picture

Question 8

Metaphor

Answer 8

Direct comparison

Question 9

Narrator

Answer 9

Person who tells the story

Question 10

Paradox

Answer 10

Contradiction in meaning

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

To give non humans human characteristics

Question 12

Plot

Answer 12

What happens

Question 13

Point of view

Answer 13

First person: I
Second person: you
Third person: he/she/they

Question 14

Protagonist

Answer 14

Central character

Question 15

Satire

Answer 15

Formal use of irony

Question 16

Similie

Answer 16

Comparison using like, than or as

Question 17

Situational irony

Answer 17

Difference between expectation and reality

Question 18

Soliloquy

Answer 18

Longer speech made by character to audience

Question 19

Sonnet

Answer 19

Patterned poem that is 14 lines long

Question 20

Stanza

Answer 20

Divisions in a poem

Question 21

Theme

Answer 21

Insight into life

Question 22

Thesis

Answer 22

Paragraph or sentence that summarizes and entire essay

Question 23

Tone

Answer 23

Attitude toward subject

Question 24

Understatement

Answer 24

Less of something than it deserves

Question 25

Verbal irony

Answer 25

To say one thing and mean another

Question 26

Flat character

Answer 26

Stereotyped character

Question 27

Round character

Answer 27

Many sided (good and back characteristics)

Question 28

Setting

Answer 28

Time, place and atmosphere