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Literary terms
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| clue of what will happen in story | forshadowing |
| problem | conflict |
| story line | plot |
| main idea of the story | theme |
| hero | protagonist |
| comedic solo | monologue |
| repeat, memory | flashback |
| represents something | symbol |
| person talking to himself | soliloquy |
| introduces poem or story | prologue |
| 2 meanings | pun |
| something implied as sexy | bawdy innuendo |
| pause in reading | blank verse |
| false proposition | paradox |
| away from thought and story line | aside |
| 14 line poem | sonnet |
| long poetic composition | epic |
| name | epithet |
| a mention of something | allusion |
| comparison using like or as | simile |
| comparison not using like or as | metaphor |
| a word group beginning with the same letter (cozying up with the cat and kindle) | alliteration |
| drama with composition | tragedy |
| sarcasm | irony |