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Vocabulary Test
Literary Terms
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English
9th Grade
05/02/2013

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Personification
Definition
Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing
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Sonnet
Definition
14 lines of iambic pentameter
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Symbol
Definition
Something seen that stands for something unseen
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Climax
Definition
High point in a story, point of most intense
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Fiction
Definition
Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events
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Soliloquy
Definition
Speech delievered by a character when he is alone on stage
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Mystery
Definition
A story that involves the reader in guessing who 'done it'
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Style
Definition
An author's unique way of writing that involves word choice and sentence
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Plot
Definition
The sequence of events in a literary work
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Theme
Definition
Central truth or idea in a story
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Biography
Definition
An author's account or story of another person's life
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Anecdote
Definition
Short summary of a funny event
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Epithet
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A word or phrase used in place of a person's name to help characterize them
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Conflict
Definition
The problem or complication in a story
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Denotation
Definition
The literal, dictionary definition of a word
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Satire
Definition
A style of writing that uses humor to criticize people
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Imagery
Definition
Words that describe sights, and sounds
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Pun
Definition
A play on words when a word has more than one meaning
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Fantasy
Definition
Highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life
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Metaphor
Definition
Comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'
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Omniscient
Definition
Can know all the character's thoughts and feelings
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
the use of words to imitate sounds
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Monologue
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A speech or performance given entirely by one person or one character
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Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of the beginning consonant sound
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Parallelism
Definition
Repetition of phrases that have similar grammatical patterns
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Meter
Definition
The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
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Lyric
Definition
Poetry that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
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Protagonist
Definition
The main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward
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Autobiography
Definition
a story about a person written by that person
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Prose
Definition
The ordinary form of written language, not poetry, drama, or song
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Dialogue
Definition
Conversation carried on by the characters in a work of literature
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Non-Fiction
Definition
Prose that ecplains ideas or is about real people, places, objects or events
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Archetype
Definition
A recurring and familiar pattern in literature, like a journey or wise old man
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Paradox
Definition
A statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth
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