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A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the

story.

Example: When Winston dreams about “the place where there is no

darkness”.A 100 Q

What is Foreshadowing?

A 100 A

A 200 Q

Repetition of a vowel sound. 

Example: “Through the long noon

coo” (George Meredith)

A 200 A

Who is Assonance?

A reference to something or someone, often literary.

Example: “May the force be with you.”

A 300 Q

What is Allusion?

A 300 A

When the audience knows something that the characters

don’t

“Gonna do it soon”… We know that George is going to shoot

Lennie in the back of the head, but Lennie does not.

A 400 Q

What is Dramatic Irony?

A 400 A

Two seemingly contradictory ideas that actually reveal some

truth

Example: “Freedom is Slavery”

A 500 Q

A 500 A

What is Paradox?

A comparison that does NOT use “like” or “as.”

Example: He’s a rock or I am an island.

B 100 Q

What is Metaphor?

B 100 A

A long speech by one character in a play or story

(that everyone is supposed to hear).

Example: Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and David Letterman do this on the

Late Shows.B 200 Q

What is Monologue?

B 200 A

The overall feeling of a work, related to tone and mood. This is often defined by setting as

well.

Example: The storm that always seems to be looming around the Weird

Sisters.

B 300 Q

What is Atmosphere?

B 300 A

A character that undergoes a significant change, usually growth or understanding.

Example: Winston, Macbeth, Dorian

B 400 Q

What is Dynamic Character?

B 400 A

The scene in a tragedy which includes the death or moral

destruction of the protagonist. The “turning downward”/ denoument of the plot in a

classical tragedy.

B 500 Q

B 500 A

What is Catastrophe?

The use of descriptive details that appeal to the

five senses.

C 100 Q

What is Imagery?

C 100 A

Figure of speech in which a direct comparison is made between two unlike things, which is carried out for several lines or a paragraph.

C 200 Q

What is Extended Metaphor?

C 200 A

C 300 Q

A story in which the characters represent abstract qualities or

ideas.

C 300 A

What is an Allegory?

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400 Q

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A moment when a character speaks their thoughts alone on

stage.

Example: Lady Macbeth’s “unsex me” speech

C 400 Q

What is a Soliloquy?

C 400 A

Any emotional discharge which brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety. The usual

intent is for an audience to leave feeling this relief from tension or

anxiety after having viewed a play.

C 500 Q

What is Catharsis?

C 500 A

Poetry in an open form, without rhyme and meter.

D 100 Q

Who is the Free Verse?

D 100 A

The elements that create a plot. This can be internal or

external.

Example: This can be a battle or a ________ inside a person or a __________ of man against nature.

D 200 Q

What is Conflict

D 200 A

Information about a character that is given directly by the

narrator

D 300 Q

What is Direct Characterization?

D 300 A

Contrast between what a reader or character expects and what really happens.

D 400 Q

What is Situation Irony?

D 400 A

Suggestions and associations which surround a word as opposed to its bare, literal

meaning.

Example: “Jolly” means “happy”, but you probably also thought of

Santa.

D 500 Q

What is Connotation?

D 500 A

Figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given

human qualities

E 100 Q

What is Personification?

E 100 A

The overall feeling of a literary work.

E 200 Q

What is Mood?

E 200 A

Lines addressed to the audience or one other

character on stage that other characters do not hear.

E 300 Q

What is an Aside?

E 300 A

Form of discourse that explains, defines, and interprets. The word is also applied to the beginning

portion of a plot in which background information about the

characters and situation is set forth

E 400 Q

What is Exposition?

E 400 A

A sudden moment of realization in a story or play, often triggered by a mundane event.  Originally

a religious term for a worldly manifestation of God’s presence.

E 500 Q

What is an Epiphany?

E 500 A

The time and place of a literary work.

F 100 Q

What is Setting?

F 100 A

A hero or central character of a literary work.

F 200 Q

Who is the Protagonist?

F 200 A

A humorous scene, incident, or remark occurring in the midst of a serious or tragic literary selection

and deliberately designed to relieve emotional intensity and

simultaneously to heighten, increase, and highlight the

seriousness or tragedy of the action. F 300 Q

What is Comic Relief?

F 300 A

A multi-faceted character, especially one who is capable of choosing right or wrong.  Usually the protagonist will

be this.

F 400 Q

What is a Round Character?

F 400 A

A literary genre depicting serious actions that usually have

a disastrous outcome for the protagonist.  Strictly speaking, the term applies only to drama,

but it is now also used for novels.

F 500 Q

What is Tragedy?

F 500 A

A rhetorical device in which contradictory terms (usually an

adjective and a noun) are combined. 

A 1000 Q

What is Oxymoron?

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A 2000 Q

An interruption in a story to tell about events that happened

before the current action of the story.

A 2000 A

What is Flashback?

Five pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

A 3000 Q

What is Iambic Pentameter?

A 3000 A

The order in which rhymed words recur.  In a stanza of

four lines, the possible _______________ include abab, abcb, and abba.

A 4000 Q

What is Rhyme Scheme?

A 4000 A

According to Aristotle, an error of judgment that causes the

downfall of a tragic protagonist. 

Example: Macbeth’s greed and ambition.

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What is a Tragic Flaw?

The perspective from which a story is narrated.  The author can choose among various

possibilities. 

B 1000 Q

What is Point of View?

B 1000 A

A recurrent image, word, phrase, represented object or action that

tends to unify the literary work or that may be elaborated into a more general theme. Also, a situation,

incident, idea, image, or character type that is found in many different literary works, folktales, or myths.

B 2000 Q

What is a Motif?

B 2000 A

Information about a character that can be inferred by the

character’s actions or speech, or by other character’s reactions.

B 3000 Q

What is Indirect Characterization?

B 3000 A

An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated

throughout the poem. It has a fixed number of verses or lines, a

prevailing kind of meter, and a consistent rhyme scheme. It may

form a division of a poem or constitute a selection in its entirety.

B 4000 Q

What is a Stanza?

B 4000 A

A privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering.

B 5000 Q

B 5000 A

Who is the Tragic Hero?

An object or action in a literary work that means more than

itself, that stands for something beyond itself.

Example: The glass paperweight

C 1000 Q

What is Symbolism?

C 1000 A

Contrast between what is said and what is actually meant or what is

real.

C 2000 Q

What is Verbal Irony?

C 2000 A

C 3000 Q

A two-line pattern of rhyme.

C 3000 A

What is a Couplet?

DAILY DOUBLE

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A rhythmic pattern of stress in a poem.

C 4000 Q

What is Meter?

C 4000 A

A small “world” that stands for the larger one.

C 5000 Q

What is Microcosm?

C 5000 A

A comparison between unlike things using words such as

“like” or “as”

D 1000 Q

What is Simile?

D 1000 A

A character who serves as a contrast to another perhaps

more primary character, so as to point out specific traits of

the primary character.

D 2000 Q

What is a Foil?

D 2000 A

When an author writes in language used by the people of

a certain culture/time.

D 3000 Q

What is Dialect?

D 3000 A

A lyric poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes

arranged according to certain definite patterns. It usually

expresses a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment. There

are three different forms: Petrarchan Shakespearean, and Miltonic.

D 4000 Q

What is a Sonnet?

D 4000 A

The dictionary definition of a word.

D 5000 Q

What is Denotation?

D 5000 A

Repetition of an initial sound (usually a consonant). 

Example: “beaded bubbles” (Keats).

E 1000 Q

What is Alliteration?

E 1000 A

Choice of words. These could vary from ornate, elevated, learned, technical, simple,

colloquial, regional, to archaic.

E 2000 Q

What is Diction?

E 2000 A

A society in which social and/or technological trends

have contributed to a corrupted or degraded state.

E 3000 Q

What is a Dystopia?

E 3000 A

A literary technique by which a character is duplicated

(usually in the form of an alter ego, though sometimes as a

ghostly counterpart) or divided into two distinct, usually opposite personalities.

E 4000 Q

What is a Doppelänger?

E 4000 A

The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions,

settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of

comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character

development. E 5000 Q

What is Juxtaposition?

E 5000 A

The trope of exaggeration or overstatement.

F 1000 Q

What is Hyperbole?

F 1000 A

The emotion with which views are expressed.

F 2000 Q

What is Tone?

F 2000 A

The central and dominating idea in a literary work.

F 3000 Q

What is Theme?

F 3000 A

The speaking voice in a poem, as distinguished from the poet’s own

voice.  The term is most useful when the speaker is clearly not

the poet.

Example: When Brittany writes suicidal poems or Juliette writes as a creepy

stalker.F 4000 Q

What is a Persona?

F 4000 A

A humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation of a person,

event, or serious work of literature designed to ridicule in

nonsensical fashion or to criticize by clever duplication. The term is also used for a comic imitation of a serious poem, similar to cartoon

caricature of a person’s face. F 5000 Q

What is a Parody?

F 5000 A

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The use of humor and wit with a critical attitude, irony, sarcasm, or

ridicule for exposing or denouncing the frailties and faults of mankind’s

activities and institutions, such as folly, stupidity, or vice. This usually involves

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