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Literary Terms Gr.9 Fill In The Blanks

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Question: The sequence of events in a ?Answer:
Question: A or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary workAnswer:
Question: A scene within a story that interrupts the of events to relate to events that occurred in the pastAnswer: Flashback
Question: A character or a force in conflict with a main character or Answer: Antagonist
Question: A contradiction what happens and what is expected is?Answer: Irony
Question: A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two ideas is?Answer:
Question: The central message, concern, or in a literary work is?Answer:
Question: Writing or that is not to be taken literally is?Answer: Figurative
Question: A type of language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics is?Answer: Personification
Question: A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. Does NOT use or as"Answer: Metaphor
Question: The perspective or point, from which a story is told is?Answer: of View
Question: The author's use of to hint at what might happen later in the story is?Answer:
Question: The turning point or the high point in the action of the plot. It is the of greatest tension.Answer:
Question: A to a well known person, events, place, literary work, or work of art in a story or novel is?Answer: Allusion
Question: In the plot of a story or a drama, it introduces the characters, setting, and basic is?Answer: Exposition
Question: The outcome of the conflict in a plot is? Resolution A struggle between opposing is?Answer: Conflict
Question: Anything that for or represents something else is?Answer: Symbol
Question: The main in a literary work is?Answer: Protagonist
Question: The time and of the action is?Answer:
Question: Succession of similar sounds; occurs in the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words (cool, cats)Answer: Alliteration
Question: Long narratives the adventures of popular heroesAnswer: Epic
Question: Conventional combination of literary form & subject matter; implies a pre-existing understanding the artist and the reader about the purpose & rules of the workAnswer:
Question: Short poem expressing the thoughts & feelings of a speaker (first person)Answer:
Question: Extended speech made by a characterAnswer:
Question: Telling of true or fictitious events by a narrator;can be either verse or prose and focus on the depiction of or happeningsAnswer:
Question: Secondary arrangement of incidents, involving not the but someone less importantAnswer: Subplot
Question: Part of play or narrative, including the , in which events start moving toward a climaxAnswer: Action
Question: in a narrative that follow the climax & bring the story to it's conclusion, or denouementAnswer: Action
Question: All the distinctive ways in an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work; depends on characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, & figurative languageAnswer: Style
Question: The use of words to create a mental picture. Often refers to a sensory . The pattern or collection of images within a poem.Answer: Imagery
Question: is the attitude the poet takes towards the subject. For example: informal, formal, solemn, playful serious, ironic, , grave, and many others.Answer: /Mood
Question: is the the poet takes towards the audience. For example: informal, formal, solemn, playful serious, ironic, condescending, grave, and many others.Answer:
Question: A narrative poem, containing much repetition and a repeated refrain. Often tell of a single episode.Answer:
Question: Poetry that 't conform to an regular metre. Line length is irregular. There may or may not be a rhyme scheme.Answer: Free
Question: Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. to echo speech. Answer: Verse
Question: Rhyme that occurs at some place before the last in a line.Answer: Internal
Question: A poem that tells a story. for : an epic or a ballad.Answer: Narrative
Question: A poem with one (not necessarily the poet) who expresses thought and feeling. for example an elegy, ode, or sonnet.Answer: Lyric
Question: Lyric poem of moderate length. Often praises , the arts, natural scenes, or abstract concepts.Answer:
Question: A stanza of four . Rhyme scheme may vary: the most common rhyme scheme is abab.Answer:
Question: The sound of the word in a poem mimics the sound to which it refers. for example: thud, crackle, buzz, , Grrr, Cuckoo.Answer:
Question: A form of Japanese poetre that states in 3 lines of five, seven, and five syllables - a picture designed around a distinct emotion and suggests spiritual insight.Answer:
Question: When the poet employs the use of that are unpleasant to the ear. May be used for effect. For example: Hiss, Spit, Pus.Answer: Cacophony
Question: When the poet employs the use of sounds that are pleasant or pleasing to the ear. May be used for .Answer: Euphony
Question: The even or that causes conflict for the main character, gets the action of the story startedAnswer: Force
Question: How the is resolved, tension is released and normalcy is restored.Answer: Denouement
Question: The emotional and imaginative associating surrounding a word, the feeling, images, and that surround a word.Answer: Connotation
Question: The meaning of a word.Answer: Denotation
Question: The pattern of between lines of a poem or songAnswer: Scheme
Question: The use of as a rhetorical device.Answer:
Question: The quality of a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the of eventsAnswer:
Question: a narrator who tells the story from a biased, or erroneous . She or he provides inaccurate, misleading, conflicting, or otherwise questionable information, and/or misinterprets events because of personal bias, limited understanding, etcAnswer: Narrator
Question: Recurring object, concept or structure in a work of lietrature, like light and dark when of good and evilAnswer: Motif
Question: the ordinary form of spoken and written language whose unit is the , rather than the line as it is in poetry Answer:
Question: A figure of speech that makes reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object. Answer:
Question: The “voice,” the person “speaking” in the Answer: Speaker
Question: When the of words affect the level of formality and the moodAnswer:
Question: A of lines in a poem.Answer: Stanza
Question: The narrator tells the story and accounts for the , feelings, motives and actions of all the characters. The narrator uses the pronouns she and he. Answer: Third Person POV
Question: The narrator is outside the story and tells the story through the eyes of only one character. Limited person uses the pronouns she and he. Answer: Peron LImited POV
Question: A character from the sotry narrates using the "I"Answer: First Person
Question: The narrator is the voice/person a story. The narrator keeps the story moving and provides detail between dialogue. The narrator may speak from different points of view. Answer: Narrative
Question: A that does not change throughout the bookAnswer: Static
Question: Dynamic characters are the opposite. They undergo some kind of change (they learn, develop, even ) over the course of the work. Answer: Character
Question: A character based on stereotypes Answer: character
Question: Complex characters, like in real life.Answer: Characters
Question: Developped characters that have more than 2 Answer: Characters
Question: that are not very developped, with one or two character traitsAnswer: Flat
Question: The techniques used to portray or describe a character (through a dialogue, actions and interactions, or thoughts, as well as through what other characters say and think about him or her). Answer:
Question: vs. selfAnswer: Conflict
Question: Person vs. Person Person vs. Society Person vs. vs. fateAnswer: Conflict
 
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