Literary terms

Question 1

What is a onomatopoeia?

Answer 1

It’s a word that represents a sound.

Question 2

What is simile?

Answer 2

Compares something using like or as

Question 3

What is metaphor?

Answer 3

Making a comparison, not using like or as

Question 4

What is alliteration?

Answer 4

The repetition of same letter at the beginning of words.

Question 5

What is personification?

Answer 5

Giving a non-human thing human characteristics.

Question 6

What is pun?

Answer 6

A play on words that has several meanings.

Question 7

What is hyperbole?

Answer 7

Exaggerated statements with claims not meant to be taken literally.

Question 8

What is imagery?

Answer 8

Describing something with your senses.

Question 9

What is symbolism?

Answer 9

Where basic objects take on a deeper meaning to connect to a theme.

Question 10

What is antagonist?

Answer 10

the bad guy in the story

Question 11

What is protagonist?

Answer 11

The hero who does the right thing

Question 12

What is idiom?

Answer 12

A piece of writing that is not meant to be taken literally.

Question 13

What is rhyme scheme?

Answer 13

A pattern of rhyming using letters (a, b, c, d, etc.)

Question 14

What is stanza?

Answer 14

Groups of lines forming a unit of the poem

Question 15

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 15

clues or hints an author gives to suggest events that will happen later in the story

Question 16

What is allusion?

Answer 16

Figure of speech that makes a reference to a place/person/event.

Question 17

What is paradox?

Answer 17

Situation that can’t exist but it does

Question 18

What is irony?

Answer 18

Opposite happens in a certain unexpected situation.

Question 19

What is satire?

Answer 19

Use of humor irony exaggeration ridicule to criticize people

Question 20

What is parody?

Answer 20

imitation to make fun of original work. Exaggerated to make it funny

Question 21

What is cliche’?

Answer 21

Expression has been used a lot so it’s annoying and boring.

Question 22

What is oxymoron?

Answer 22

Words that are opposite of each other. (pretty ugly)

Question 23

What is assonance?

Answer 23

Repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds.

Question 24

What is consonance?

Answer 24

Repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds.

Question 25

what is juxtaposition?

Answer 25

Placing 2 words side by side to compare them.

Question 26

What is enjambment?

Answer 26

One line of poetry carries on to 2nd one

Question 27

What is portmanteau?

Answer 27

Word made by combining two other ones. (smog = smoke and fog)