Literary Terms - Skyndipróf
| __ | 1. | alliteration | | A. | A major character who opposes the protagonist in a story | | __ | 2. | antagonist | | B. | Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. | | __ | 3. | atmosphere | | C. | feeling of a work, which is related to tone and mood | | __ | 4. | characterization | | D. | action in a story or play reaches its peak | | __ | 5. | climax | | E. | elements that create a plot-problem | | __ | 6. | conflict | | F. | means by which an author establishes character | | __ | 7. | contrast | | G. | a story that illustrates a moral often using animals | | __ | 8. | end rhyme | | H. | point of view of writing with "I" | | __ | 9. | fable | | I. | explain how two things differ | | __ | 10. | first person point of view | | J. | rhyming words that are at the ends of their respective lines |
| __ | 11. | figerative language | | A. | Your pulling my leg. | | __ | 12. | free verse | | B. | “That baseball card is worth a zillion dollars!” | | __ | 13. | genre | | C. | poetry with no set meter (rhythm) or rhyme scheme | | __ | 14. | hyperbole | | D. | kind of style usually art or literature | | __ | 15. | idiom | | E. | expresses the poet’s emotions | | __ | 16. | imagery | | F. | use of description that helps the reader imagine | | __ | 17. | internal rhyme | | G. | Language that conveys certain ideas by saying the opposite | | __ | 18. | irony | | H. | “He’s King of the Swing.” | | __ | 19. | literal language | | I. | language that does not mean exactly what it says | | __ | 20. | lyric | | J. | exactly what it says |
| __ | 21. | metaphor | | A. | A comparison that doesn’t use “like” or “as" | | __ | 22. | meter | | B. | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem | | __ | 23. | monologue | | C. | A long speech by one character in a play or story | | __ | 24. | mood | | D. | The emotional atmosphere of a given piece of writing | | __ | 25. | myth | | E. | A humorous, exaggerated imitation of another work | | __ | 26. | onomatopoeia | | F. | offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena | | __ | 27. | parody | | G. | use of words that sound like what they mean such as “buzz” | | __ | 28. | personification | | H. | the action in the story | | __ | 29. | plot | | I. | Giving inanimate object human characteristics | | __ | 30. | protagonist | | J. | the main character of a novel, play, or story |
| __ | 31. | pun | | A. | a four-line stanza | | __ | 32. | quatrain | | B. | a A question not meant to be answered such | | __ | 33. | rhetorical question | | C. | noticing the bunch of bananas, the hungry gorilla went ape | | __ | 34. | sarcasm | | D. | imagery that has to do with your senses | | __ | 35. | sensory imagery | | E. | “I’m as hungry as a wolf” | | __ | 36. | simile | | F. | “paragraph” | | __ | 37. | stanza | | G. | language that conveys a certain idea by saying just the oppo | | __ | 38. | subplot | | H. | a line of action secondary to the main story. | | __ | 39. | symbolism | | I. | The use of one things to represent another | | __ | 40. | theme | | J. | the central idea or lesson of a work |
| __ | 41. | tone | | A. | the author’s attitude toward his or her subject. | | __ | 42. | voice | | B. | the narrative point of view |
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