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What is the term for a pair of successive rhyming lines in a poem?
Rhyming Couplet
What is the term for the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break in a poem?
Enjambment
What do we call the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?
Meter
What poetic device involves the use of words that imitate the sounds they describe?
Onomatopoeia
What do we call a grouped set of lines in a poem, often separated by a space from other such groups, similar to a paragraph in prose?
Stanza
What poetic device involves the repetition of the same sounds at the end of lines or within lines of poetry?
Rhyme
What is the end of a story called?
Resolution
What is the name for the actions leading up to the climax?
Rising actions
What is a story's main idea or message?
Theme
What is the term for a dramatic struggle in a book?
Conflict. (Could be internal or external, can you give any examples?)
What are the cirumstances that form the background of an idea, event or statement?
Context
What is the term for the storyline?
Plot
What is the word to describe the time and place of a story?
Setting
What are falling actions?
The story begins to slow down after the climax and tie off any loose ends.
What is the most suspensful moment in a story?
Climax
What do we call a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction?
Oxymoron
What is the term for a narrative device that interrupts the chronological sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time?
Flashback
What literary device involves creating a mental image through descriptive language?
Imagery
What do we call an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words?
Idiom
What is the term for a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
Metaphor
What do we call the character or force that opposes the main character in a story?
Antagonist
What literary device involves giving clues or hints about what will happen later in the story?
Foreshadowing
What is the term for the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?
Symbolism
What literary device is used when the opposite of what is expected occurs?
Irony
What do we call the main character in a story, often a hero or heroine?
Protagonist
What is the term for a reference to another work of literature, person, or event?
Allusion
What literary device involves the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words?
Assonance
What is the term for a play on words that have similar sounds but different meanings?
Pun
Which literary device involves the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in a series of words?
Alliteration
What do we call an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally?
Hyperbole
What is the term for a comparison using "like" or "as"?
Simile
What literary device is used when a non-human object or animal is given human characteristics?
Personification
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