Literary Terms Review

A reference to a well known person, place event, literary work, or work of art.

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Analogy

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together.

• allusion

• allegory

• alliteration

• analogy

How a story makes the reader feel.

• imagery

• mood

• tone

• humor

The use of words that imitate the sounds of what they describe.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• nonverbal

• splat!

The struggle between opposing forces in a story.

• conclusion

• conflict

• climax

• connotation

The method a writer uses to develop a character.

• characterization

• comedy

• caricature

• inference

Which element of plot introduces the characters and the setting of the story?

• rising action

• inciting event

• resolution

• exposition

What is imagery?

• The way the text makes the reader feel.

• The writer's attitude towards a subject.

• Hints the writer gives about what may happen.

• Language that appeals to the five senses.

The contrast between what the character knows and the reader/audience knows...

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• none of the above

When objects or abstract ideas are given human characteristics.

• personification

• pun

• metaphor

• oxymoron