literary terms

Question 1

What makes a person who they are

Answer 1

character

Question 2

when author tells you what they are like

Answer 2

Direct characterization

Question 3

you have to look for clues in order to understand what they are like

Answer 3

indirect characterization

Question 4

problem

Answer 4

conflict

Question 5

way a person talks (regional)

Answer 5

dialect

Question 6

events made up in a story

Answer 6

plot

Question 7

beginning

Answer 7

Exposition

Question 8

More complicated

Answer 8

rising action

Question 9

more intense

Answer 9

climax

Question 10

end

Answer 10

denouement

Question 11

type of anything

Answer 11

genre

Question 12

hint of what is about to happen

Answer 12

foreshadow

Question 13

saying something but meaning the opposite

Answer 13

verbal irony

Question 14

audience knows something that the characters dont

Answer 14

dramatic irony

Question 15

reverse of expectation

Answer 15

situational irony

Question 16

anything that has meaning beyond itself

Answer 16

symbol

Question 17

paragraph of poetry

Answer 17

stanza

Question 18

piece of punctuation that makes you pause

Answer 18

End stop line

Question 19

When the line continues to the next

Answer 19

Enjambment

Question 20

Creates images using imaginative comparisons between seemingly unlike things

Answer 20

Figurative/ metaphorical

Question 21

Direct comparison

Answer 21

direct metaphor

Question 22

Indirectly comparing something

Answer 22

Indirect metaphor

Question 23

Metaphor that uses like or as

Answer 23

simile

Question 24

Giving human characteristics to a non human

Answer 24

personification

Question 25

repetition of constant sounds (tounge twister)

Answer 25

Alliteration

Question 26

Repeat of vowel sounds

Answer 26

Assonance

Question 27

Words that sound like what they mean

Answer 27

Onomatopoeia

Question 28

the narrator is a character in the story (use of ‘I’)

Answer 28

1st person

Question 29

the narrator is outside of the story (use of ‘he’ ‘she’ ‘they’)

Answer 29

3rd person limited

Question 30

knows all the thoughts and feeling of all the characters in the story (multiple voices)

Answer 30

3rd person omniscient

Question 31

reference to something

Answer 31

Allusion

Question 32

Against main character

Answer 32

antagonist

Question 33

main character

Answer 33

protagonist

Question 34

play on words

Answer 34

pun

Question 35

where the story takes place

Answer 35

setting

Question 36

what we learn about the subject

Answer 36

theme

Question 37

what main ideas are about

Answer 37

subject

Question 38

authors attitude toward the subject

Answer 38

tone

Question 39

one dimension

Answer 39

flat character

Question 40

multi dimensional

Answer 40

round character

Question 41

stays the same

Answer 41

static character

Question 42

has big change

Answer 42

dynamic character

Question 43

something that contradicts itself, at first glance doesn’t look right

Answer 43

Paradox