| __ | 1. | alliteration | | A. | A major character who opposes the protagonist in a story |
| __ | 2. | antagonist | | B. | Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. |
| __ | 3. | atmosphere | | C. | elements that create a plot-problem |
| __ | 4. | characterization | | D. | feeling of a work, which is related to tone and mood |
| __ | 5. | climax | | E. | means by which an author establishes character |
| __ | 6. | conflict | | F. | action in a story or play reaches its peak |
| __ | 7. | contrast | | G. | explain how two things differ |
| __ | 8. | end rhyme | | H. | rhyming words that are at the ends of their respective lines |
| __ | 9. | fable | | I. | a story that illustrates a moral often using animals |
| __ | 10. | first person point of view | | J. | point of view of writing with "I" |
| __ | 21. | metaphor | | A. | A comparison that doesn’t use “like” or “as" |
| __ | 22. | meter | | B. | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
| __ | 23. | monologue | | C. | A long speech by one character in a play or story |
| __ | 24. | mood | | D. | offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena |
| __ | 25. | myth | | E. | A humorous, exaggerated imitation of another work |
| __ | 26. | onomatopoeia | | F. | The emotional atmosphere of a given piece of writing |
| __ | 27. | parody | | G. | use of words that sound like what they mean such as “buzz” |
| __ | 28. | personification | | H. | Giving inanimate object human characteristics |
| __ | 29. | plot | | I. | the action in the story |
| __ | 30. | protagonist | | J. | the main character of a novel, play, or story |
| __ | 31. | pun | | A. | noticing the bunch of bananas, the hungry gorilla went ape |
| __ | 32. | quatrain | | B. | a four-line stanza |
| __ | 33. | rhetorical question | | C. | language that conveys a certain idea by saying just the oppo |
| __ | 34. | sarcasm | | D. | imagery that has to do with your senses |
| __ | 35. | sensory imagery | | E. | a A question not meant to be answered such |
| __ | 36. | simile | | F. | “I’m as hungry as a wolf” |
| __ | 37. | stanza | | G. | “paragraph” |
| __ | 38. | subplot | | H. | the central idea or lesson of a work |
| __ | 39. | symbolism | | I. | a line of action secondary to the main story. |
| __ | 40. | theme | | J. | The use of one things to represent another |