Literary Terms 2 (DAY 15 through Day 20)

Question 1

Ode

Answer 1

a lyric poem of some length, usually of serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal structure.

Question 2

Onomatopoeia

Answer 2

the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning.

Question 3

Opinion

Answer 3

see fact and opinion.

Question 4

Oral history

Answer 4

stories of people’s lives related by word of mouth.

Question 5

Oxymoron

Answer 5

a form of figurative language combining contradictory words or ideas.

Question 6

Paradox

Answer 6

a statement that seems to contradict itself but is, nevertheless, true.

Question 7

Parallelism

Answer 7

the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance.

Question 8

Paraphrasing

Answer 8

the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form.

Question 9

Parody

Answer 9

a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author’s work for comic effect or ridicule.

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

a figure of speech where animals, ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics.

Question 11

Perspective

Answer 11

see POV.

Question 12

Persuasion

Answer 12

persuasive writing is meant to sway readers’ feelings, beliefs, or actions/

Question 13

Play

Answer 13

see drama.

Question 14

Plot

Answer 14

the sequences of related events that make up a story.

Question 15

Exposition

Answer 15

introduces the characters and the conflicts they face.

Question 16

Inciting incident

Answer 16

occurs after the exposition and introduces the central conflict within the story.

Question 17

Rising action

Answer 17

following the introduction of the central conflict; complications arise as the character struggle with the conflict.

Question 18

Climax

Answer 18

the turning point, point of maximum interest, and highest tension in the plot of a story, play, or film.

Question 19

Falling action

Answer 19

the end of the central conflict in a story, when the action starts to wind down.

Question 20

Resolution or denouement

Answer 20

occurs after the climax and is where conflicts are resolved and loose ends are tied up.

Question 21

Subplot

Answer 21

an additional minor plot that involves a secondary conflict in the story.

Question 22

Poetry

Answer 22

a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact imaginative, and often musical language.

Question 23

Primary source

Answer 23

a first hand account of an event.

Question 24

Propaganda

Answer 24

text that uses false or misleading information to present a slanted point of view.

Question 25

Prose

Answer 25

the ordinary form of spoken and written language.

Question 26

Protagonist

Answer 26

see character.

Question 27

Questioning

Answer 27

the process of raising questions while reading in an effort to understand characters and events.

Question 28

Realistic fiction

Answer 28

imaginative writing set in the real, modern world.

Question 29

Refrain

Answer 29

repetition in literature of one or more lines at regular intervals; sometimes called chorus.

Question 30

Repetition

Answer 30

a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis.

Question 31

Resolution

Answer 31

see plot.

Question 32

Rhyme

Answer 32

repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work.

Question 33

End or terminal rhymes

Answer 33

words that rhyme at the end of a verse-line.

Question 34

Point of View

Answer 34

perspective from which a story is told.

Question 35

First person POV

Answer 35

the person telling the story is one of the characters in the story. It is the "I" POV. It is the most limited among the types because the narrator can only state what he or she sees, feels, and hears.

Question 36

Second person POV

Answer 36

refers to the use of "you" in explanations or arguments.

Question 37

Third person limited or third person objective

Answer 37

the person telling the story is not one of the characters in the story.

Question 38

Third person omniscient

Answer 38

the narrator is not a character in the story, but the events in the story are seen throughout the eyes of more than one of the characters.

Question 39

Predicting

Answer 39

the process of gathering information and combining it with the reader's own knowledge to guess what might occur in the story.

Question 40

Eye rhymes

Answer 40

are words that when written appear to rhyme, but when spoken don't.

Question 41

Internal rhyme

Answer 41

rhyme found within a line of poetry.

Question 42

Slant rhyme

Answer 42

is also known as near rhyme, off rhyme, imperfect rhyme, oblique rhyme, or parahyme.

Question 43

Rhyme scheme

Answer 43

the pattern of end rhyme used in a poem.

Question 44

Rhythm

Answer 44

refers to the pattern of flow of sounds created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

Question 45

Rising action

Answer 45

see plot

Question 46

Sarcasm

Answer 46

the use of...

Question 47

Satire

Answer 47

a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.

Question 48

Scene

Answer 48

...

Question 49

Science fiction

Answer 49

prose writing in which a writer explores unexpected possibilities of the past or the future by using scientific data and theories as well as his or her imagination

Question 50

Secondary source

Answer 50

a secondary source presents information compiled from or based on other sources.

Question 51

Sensory details

Answer 51

words and phrases that help readers use senses to tell what an author is describing.

Question 52

Sequence

Answer 52

the order in which events occur or in which ideas are presented

Question 53

Setting

Answer 53

the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a story occurs.

Question 54

Short story

Answer 54

brief work of fiction that generally focuses on one or two main characters who face a single problem or conflict

Question 55

Soliloquy

Answer 55

a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage.

Question 56

Sound devices

Answer 56

see alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme and rhythm

Question 57

Speaker

Answer 57

the voice that talks to the reader in a poem, as the narrator does in a work of fiction.

Question 58

Speech

Answer 58

a talk given in public

Question 59

Stage directions

Answer 59

the instructions to the actors, director and stage crew in the script of a play.