Literary Terms

Match the correct term with its definition: A warning or indication of a future event.

• Mood

• Analogy

• Point of View

• Genres

• Foreshadow

Match the correct term with its definition: The expression of one’s meaning by using language that signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

• Irony

• Point of View

• Analogy

• Genres

• Mood

Match the correct term with its definition: A short, interesting or amusing story about a real incident or person.

• Protagonist

• Analogy

• Point of View

• Mood

• Genres

Match the correct term with its definition: A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

• Point of View

• Rhetorical Question

• Mood

• Genres

• Analogy

Match the correct term with its definition: The use of humor, exaggeration, irony, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.

• Mood

• Genres

• Point of View

• Satire

• Analogy

Match the correct term with its definition: A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

• Analogy

• Rhetorical Question

• Simile

• Genres

• Mood

Match the correct term with its definition: The attitude a character, narrator or author takes towards a given subject.

• Genres

• Analogy

• Point of View

• Tone

• Mood

Match the correct term with its definition: The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader.

• Mood

• Genres

• Analogy

• Flashback

• Point of View

Match the correct term with its definition: Visually descriptive or figurative language.

• Imagery

• Analogy

• Genres

• Point of View

• Mood

Match the correct term with its definition: A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.

• Analogy

• Mood

• Point of View

• Symbol

• Genres