Literary Terms

Question 1

Setting

Answer 1

the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned/ where an event takes place.

Question 2

Plot

Answer 2

the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

Question 3

Characterization

Answer 3

the creation of construction of a fictional character. Revealing personality.

Question 4

Alliteration

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Conflict

Answer 5

a serious disagreement, typically a protracted one. Opposing force that creates dramatic interest.

Question 6

Simile

Answer 6

The comparison of 1 thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more empathic or vivid. Uses the words “like” or “as”.

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

Direct Comparison not using the words “like” or “as”

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality.

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

exaggerated statements or claims that meant to be taken literally.

Question 10

Allusion

Answer 10

an expressed designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Something well-known.

Question 11

Tone

Answer 11

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing , situation, ect. Author feels.

Question 12

Mood

Answer 12

the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story. Reader feels.

Question 13

Situational Irony

Answer 13

Something takes place that is different or the opposite of what is expected to happen.

Question 14

Verbal Irony

Answer 14

someone says is different from and opposite to what they actually mean.

Question 15

Pun

Answer 15

a play of word to create a humerous affect.

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

Answer 16

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

Question 17

Idiom

Answer 17

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not declucible from those of the individual words.

Question 18

Inference

Answer 18

a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Question 19

Symbolism

Answer 19

the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Question 20

Antithesis

Answer 20

contracting words or opposing ideas are within the same sentence.

Question 21

Motif

Answer 21

a symbolic image or idea that tappers frequently throughout a story. (Repeated symbol).

Question 22

Synthesize

Answer 22

combining different texts or ideas into a singular, uniting commonality.

Question 23

Assonance

Answer 23

the repetition of vowels should inside adjacent words.

Question 24

Consonance

Answer 24

the repetition of constant sounds inside adjacent words.

Question 25

Imagery

Answer 25

show don’t tell. The use of the 5 senses to create a visual.

Question 26

Rhetorical Question

Answer 26

asking a question where the answer is implied or not expected to be answered.

Question 27

Meiosis

Answer 27

an understatement, usually meant to be witty or dismissive.

Question 28

Parallelism

Answer 28

use of the same general structure for multiple parts of a sentence (or multiple sentences) in order to like them all.
Ex) I came, I saw, I conquered

Question 29

Volta

Answer 29

the turning point, or shift, in a poem. Usually indicated with a conjunction (but, yet, although, however).

Question 30

Zeugma

Answer 30

when unexpected items in a sentence are linking together by a shared word.
Ex) She broke his car and his heart