Fun with Literary Terms
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$100 DOLLAR QUESTION FROM A
A major character who opposes the main character in a story or play.
Example: The “bad guy” that we are against.
Antagonist $100 from A
The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.Example: “ Peter Piper picked a pec of pickled peppers.”
$ 200 Answer from A
Alliteration
$300 Question from A
A reference to something or someone, often literary. Example: “ May the force be with you.”
$300.00 Answer from A
Allusion
$400 Question from A
The overall feeling of a work, related to tone and mood.
Example: In Science class you might be talking about layers of gases in the earth’s ….
$400 Answer from A
Atmosphere
$500 Question from A
A story in which the characters represent abstract qualities or ideas. Example: In westerns, the sheriff represents good, and the outlaw represents evil.
$500 Answer from A
Allegory
$100 Question from CThe means by which an author describes the appearance and personality of a person in a story or play.Example: The way an author describes the main________ is ________.
$100 Answer from C
Characterization
$200 Question from CThe point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak.
Example: The most exciting part of the story.
$200 Answer from c
Climax
$300 Question from CTo explain how things are alike.Example: In Algebra, you can’t _____apples to oranges or x’s to y’s.
$300 Answer from C
Compare
$400 Question from CThe elements that create a plot. This can be internal or external.
Example: This can be a battle or a ____Inside a person or a _____ of a man against nature.
$400 Answer from C
Conflict
$500 Question from CTo explain how things are different.Example: The opposite of compare.
$500 Answer from C
Contrast
$100 Question from E-FThe point of view of a piece of writing in which the narrator refers to himself as “I”Example: Not the third but the___.
$100 Answer from E-F
The First Person Point of View
$200 Question from E-FA long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure.Example: The Odyssey
$200 Answer from E-F
Epic
$300 Question from E-FA story that illustrates a moral, often using animals as the characters.Example: The Tortoise and the Hare
$300 Answer from E-F
Fable
$400 Question from E-FA technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.Example: What usually happens after you hear the music from JAWS!
$400 Answer from E-F
Foreshadowing
$500 Question from E-FLanguage that does not mean exactly what it says.Example: I am so mad steam is coming out of my ears!!! If it can’t happen then it usually is a _____ of speech.
$ 500 Answer from E-F Figurative language
$ 100 Question from M-OThe use of words that sound like what they mean.Example: Ping, Ring, Buzz
$100 Answer from M-O
Onomatopoeia
$200 Question from M-O
A comparison that does NOT use“like” or “as”.Example He’s a rock or I am an island.
$200 Answer from M-O
Metaphor
$300 Question from M-OA long speech by one character in a play or story ( that everyone is supposed to hear).Example: Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman do this on the Late Shows.
$300 Answer from M-O
Monologue
$400 Question from M-OA legend that embodies the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena.Example: The Greek Gods: Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, Hercules….
$400 Answer from M-O Myth
$500 Question from M-O
A phrase made up of two seemingly opposite words.Example : Cruel Kindness or Dumb Smart or Jumbo Shrimp
$500 Answer from M-O
Oxymoron
$100 Question from P-SGiving an inanimate object human characteristics.Example: “ The flames reached for the child hovering in the corner.”
$100 Answer from P-S
Personification
$200 Question from P-S
The main character of a novel, play, or story.Example: The “good guy” or think about another meaning of “for.”
$200 Answer from P-S Protagonist
$300 Question from P-SThe action of the story that summarizes the plan of the main story.Example: The basic ideas of a story in the order that they happened.
$300 Answer from P-S
Plot
$400 Question from P-SA comparison that uses “like” or “as.”Example: “I’m as hungry as a wolf.” “Her eyes are like the stars in the sky.”
$400 Answer from P-S
Simile
$500 Question from P-S
A question not meant to be answered .Example: “Why can’t you just get along?”
$ 500 Answer from P-S
Rhetorical Question
Final Jeopardy
A monologue in which a character expresses his or her thoughts to the audience and does not intend the other characters to hear them.
Final Jeopardy Answer
Soliloquy