Literary Terms

Question 1

_______________ is the comparison of two things, alike in certain aspects and often making an unfamiliar object or idea understood or described… includes simile and metaphor

Answer 1

analogy

Question 2

______________ is an expressed or an indirect comparison. Uses like and as

Answer 2

simile

Question 3

____________ is an implied analogy it is a direct comparison between two objects. no like or as

Answer 3

metaphor

Question 4

_______________ a word’s dictonary definition. THis specific exact meaning of a word is independant of word association

Answer 4

denotion

Question 5

___________________ is a words emotional and suggestive meaning. We have these based on out personal experienced and on group experiences

Answer 5

connotation

Question 6

_______________ the initial consonate of words are repeated such as gravelly ground buried bright

Answer 6

alliteration

Question 7

_____________________ a type of repitition where the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines

Answer 7

anaphora

Question 8

__________ a brief poem intended to invoke an emotional response

Answer 8

Lyric

Question 9

___________________ in this case animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects are given human form, character, or sensibilities so that they have human personalities. They are anthropomorphic

Answer 9

personificiation

Question 10

_______________ is a reference to another source: your make an allusion to a movie, a piece or literature, a news story, to history, to the bible

Answer 10

allusion

Question 11

_______________ something about which people will disagree. An issue is best defined as a question with no obvious answer

Answer 11

issue

Question 12

___________ a type or category of works sharing a particular formal or textual reference

Answer 12

genre

Question 13

_____________ any narrative, especially in prose about invented or imagined characters and action. Is subdivided into a short story, novella, and novel

Answer 13

Fiction

Question 14

______________ one of the three major geres of imaginative literature which has origins in music and oral performance and is characterized by controlled patterns of rhythm and sytax

Answer 14

poetry

Question 15

_________________ a literary genre consisting of works in which action is performed and all words are spoken before and audiences by an actor or actors impersonating the characters

Answer 15

Drama

Question 16

_______________ a short piece of writing on a particular subject usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative, anything resembling such a composition

Answer 16

essay

Question 17

______________ a long work of fiction typically published as a stand-alone book though most novels are written in prose, those written as poetry are called __________

Answer 17

novel

Question 18

________________ a relatively short work of prose fiction that accorded to edgar allan poe can be read in a single sitting of two hours or less

Answer 18

short story

Question 19

____________________ subgenre of works that playfully draw attention to their status as fiction in order to explore the nature of fiction and the role of authors and readers

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metafiction

Question 20

__________________ a group of characters that act as one. The boys in We real Cool

Answer 20

collective character

Question 21

_________________ when a thought begins on a previous line and then moves effortlessly onto the next line. The sentence/idea ends in the middle of the line

Answer 21

enjambment

Question 22

_________________ the main character in a work. This character who creates the plot. This is the character who faces conflicts

Answer 22

protagonist

Question 23

______________ is that moment of illumination when the character understands and all the strands come together in one exquisite moment

Answer 23

epiphany

Question 24

_________________ this is a character who works actively against the protagonist. This character possess traits opposite of the protagonist

Answer 24

antagonist

Question 25

_________________ a character whose chracter has limited developement. relatively simple has few dominat traites

Answer 25

flat character

Question 26

_____________ are complex and act in a way that readers might not expect as possible

Answer 26

round characters

Question 27

________________ characters that do not change

Answer 27

static characters

Question 28

___________________ they change from the beginning of the work to the end of the work. You can see the character change. They are usually the protagonist of the book

Answer 28

dynamic character