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Literary Terms Vocabulary Test
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Figurative Language: Language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
Flashback: a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
Foreshadowing: to show or indicate beforehand prefigure
Hyperbole: obvious and intentional exaggeration.
Imagery: the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or such images collectively.
Inference: the act or process of inferring.
Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.
Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compares. As in “she is like a rose”
Mood: a state or quality of feeling at a particular time.
Paradox: a statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Parody: a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.
Personification: the attribution of human nature or character to animals.
Plot: a storyline the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
Point of view: a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint
Protagonist: the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work
Antagonist: a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or completes with an opponent; adversary.
Rhetorical question: a question used solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply
Sarcasm: harsh or bitter derision or irony
Satire: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposition denouncing or deriding vice, folly, etc.
Setting: the surroundings or environment of anything
Stereotype: to give a fixed form to
Style: a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character.
Tone: character or quality of sound
Literary Terms Vocabulary Test
Across:2. | character or quality of sound | 3. | a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing. | 5. | harsh or bitter derision or irony | 6. | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. | 10. | Language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors. | 11. | a storyline the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. |
| 12. | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. | 14. | to give a fixed form to | 15. | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposition denouncing or deriding vice, folly, etc. | 16. | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compares. As in “she is like a rose” | 20. | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or such images collectively. | 22. | a statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| | Down:1. | a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or completes with an opponent; adversary. | 4. | the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work | 7. | a question used solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply | 8. | the surroundings or environment of anything | 9. | a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint |
| 13. | obvious and intentional exaggeration. | 17. | the act or process of inferring. | 18. | a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. | 19. | a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character. | 21. | a state or quality of feeling at a particular time. |
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Literary Terms Vocabulary Test
Across:2. | character or quality of sound | 3. | a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing. | 5. | harsh or bitter derision or irony | 6. | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. | 10. | Language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors. | 11. | a storyline the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. |
| 12. | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. | 14. | to give a fixed form to | 15. | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposition denouncing or deriding vice, folly, etc. | 16. | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compares. As in “she is like a rose” | 20. | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or such images collectively. | 22. | a statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| | Down:1. | a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or completes with an opponent; adversary. | 4. | the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work | 7. | a question used solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply | 8. | the surroundings or environment of anything | 9. | a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint |
| 13. | obvious and intentional exaggeration. | 17. | the act or process of inferring. | 18. | a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. | 19. | a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character. | 21. | a state or quality of feeling at a particular time. |
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