Lit Terms Exam A-F

The repetition of different BEGINNING sounds in a line or sentence.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Diction

Allusion

• A type of magic trick

• A character that changes

• A reference to another famous work

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

A short story that explains a point

• Anecdote

• Anaphora

• Antidote

• Alliteration

Works against the main character in a story

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Anticharacter

• Flat Character

The most exciting/most dramatic part of the plot arc

• exposition

• rising action

• denouement

• climax

The "problems" of a story or play.

• contradictions

• falling actions

• conflicts

• resolutions

The various emotional differences or weights of words.

• denotation

• diction

• conflict

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The particular way a group of people speak; slang, accent, etc.

• dialogue

• diabolical

• dialect

• diatribe

Conversation between two or more characters

• diatribe

• dialogue

• dialect

• diagram

The author's choice of words or images.

• dialect

• diction

• diatribe

• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6