literary terms lessons 14-20

Question 1

a lyric of some length

Answer 1

ode

Question 2

the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning

Answer 2

onomayopoeia

Question 3

see fact and opinion

Answer 3

opinion

Question 4

stories of peoples lives related by word of mouth

Answer 4

oral history

Question 5

a form of figurative language combing contradictory words or ideas

Answer 5

oxymoron

Question 6

a statement that seems to contradict itself but is nevertheless true

Answer 6

paradox

Question 7

the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance

Answer 7

parsllelism

Question 8

the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form

Answer 8

paraphasing

Question 9

a literary or artistic work that imitates the characters style of an authors speech

Answer 9

parody

Question 10

a figure of speech where animals ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics

Answer 10

personification

Question 11

see point of view

Answer 11

perspective

Question 12

persuasive writing is meant to sway readers feelings beliefs or actions

Answer 12

persuasion

Question 13

see drama

Answer 13

play

Question 14

the sequence of related events that make up a story

Answer 14

plot

Question 15

introduces the characters and the conflicts they face

Answer 15

exposition

Question 16

occurs after the exposition and introduces the central conflict within the story

Answer 16

inciting incident

Question 17

following the introduction of the central conflict

Answer 17

rising action

Question 18

the turning point in the story

Answer 18

climax

Question 19

the end of the central conflict in a story

Answer 19

falling action

Question 20

occurs after the climax

Answer 20

resolution or denouement

Question 21

an additional minor plot that involves a secondary conflict in the story

Answer 21

subplot

Question 22

a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact

Answer 22

poetry

Question 23

perspective from which a story is told

Answer 23

point of view

Question 24

the person telling the story that is one of the characters in the story

Answer 24

first person point of view

Question 25

refers to the use of 'you' in explanations or arguments

Answer 25

second person point of view

Question 26

the person telling the story is not one of the characters in the story

Answer 26

third person point of view

Question 27

the narrator is not a character in the story but the events in the story are seen through the eyes of more than one of the characters

Answer 27

third person omniscient

Question 28

a first hand account of an event

Answer 28

primary source

Question 29

text that uses false or misleading information to present a slanted point of view

Answer 29

propaganda

Question 30

the ordinary form of spoken and written language

Answer 30

prose

Question 31

see character

Answer 31

protagonist

Question 32

the process of raising questions while reading

Answer 32

questioning

Question 33

imaginative writing set in the real modern world

Answer 33

realistic fiction

Question 34

repetition in literature of one or more lines at regular intervals

Answer 34

refrain

Question 35

a technique in which a sound word phrase or line is repeated

Answer 35

repetition

Question 36

see plot

Answer 36

resolution

Question 37

repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work

Answer 37

rhyme

Question 38

the process of gathering information and combining it with the readers own knowledge to guess what might occur in the story

Answer 38

predicting

Question 39

words that rhyme at the end of a verse

Answer 39

end or terminal rhymes

Question 40

are words that when written appear to rhyme

Answer 40

eye rhyme

Question 41

rhyme found within a line of poetry

Answer 41

internal rhyme

Question 42

system of pattern of metrical structure

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slant rhyme

Question 43

the pattern in a poem

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rhyme scheme

Question 44

pattern of flow of sounds

Answer 44

rhythm

Question 45

`see plot

Answer 45

rising action

Question 46

use of praise to mock someone or something

Answer 46

sarcasm

Question 47

a literary in which ideas are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society

Answer 47

satire

Question 48

the process of representing events

Answer 48

scanning

Question 49

a section in a play

Answer 49

scene

Question 50

prose writing

Answer 50

science fiction

Question 51

presents information of other sources

Answer 51

secondary source

Question 52

words and phrases that help readers

Answer 52

secondary details

Question 53

the order which things happen

Answer 53

sequence

Question 54

the time and place a story takes place

Answer 54

setting

Question 55

a brief fiction story

Answer 55

short story

Question 56

comparison between two other like and unlike objects

Answer 56

simile

Question 57

a speech delivered by a character

Answer 57

soliloquy

Question 58

a distinctive poetic style that uses a system or pattern of metrical structure

Answer 58

sonnet

Question 59

written in iambic pentameter

Answer 59

petrarchan sonnet

Question 60

the octave and sestet were replaced by three quatrains

Answer 60

English sonnet

Question 61

see alliteration onomatopoeia repetition rhyme and rhythm

Answer 61

sound devices

Question 62

the voice that talks to the reader in a poem

Answer 62

speaker

Question 63

a talk given in public

Answer 63

speech

Question 64

the instructions to the actors

Answer 64

stage directions