How about a nice review on literary terms today? How many do you remember, not just by definition but also by usage? Can you tell which literary device is being used in each sentence below? There is a word bank to help you out, but NOT EVERY WORD IS USED! Enjoy!

                                                    Word Bank

personification                        alliteration                     hyperbole
irony/ironic                             simile                               metaphor
onomatopoeia                         epiphany                         foreshadowing
inference                                  first person                     second person
third person                             idiom                               protagonist
antagonist                               figurative                        literal
conflict                                     analogy                           anecdote
argument                                 persuasive writing         Venn Diagram
expository writing                  genre                                paraphrase
quotation                                 repetition                        rhyme
setting                                      stanza                              theme
dialogue                                   haiku                                parallel structure
plot                                           poetry                              prose


1. _________________________ language is one that uses phrases of deeper meaning that are not to be taken literally. You often have to figure out what the author or poet is trying to say in these instances.
2. When there are two opposing points of view presented in an essay, this is known as ____________________________________ writing.
3. When there is just one point of view presented in an essay (and usually it is yours), this is known as ______________________ writing.
4. Writing that is filled with emotion and feeling, often with the use of rhyme or repetition, and has lines and stanzas rather than sentences and paragraphs is known as _________________________.
5. When you use words that sound like what the word implies, such as "buzz" or "swish," you are using ___________________________________.
6. When you use words over and over again because you wish to emphasize how important they are in a piece of writing, you are using _____________________________________.
7. The opposite of poetry, generally every other type of writing, is known as __________________________________________.
8. The main character in a story is known as the ___________________.
9. A character in a story that goes against the main character or attempts to stop her from reaching her goal is known as the _________________________________.
10. When a character has a sudden realization in a story in which he now understands something he never knew or felt before, and it often changes his point of view from that point on, the character is having an _________.
11. If I write a story and show a character reading a newspaper, as Chekhov did in "The Lottery Ticket," and later you discover that the newspaper is a very important part of the story, I have used ________________________.
12. If you walk into class and say, "I am so tired I could sleep for a year," you are exaggerating, which is also known as the literary term _________________________________________.
13. When you say something like "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers," you are using ___________________________ because many of the words begin with the same sound!
14. In the following sentence, what type of noun phrase is in italics:

     The man, a senator from Massachusetts, was working hard to earn the
     trust of every citizen.
________________________________________

15. If I give human qualities to an inanimate object, such as if I say, "The lamp seemed to wink at me when I turned it off," I am using ____________.
16. Which point of view am I using when I include words such as "I," "me," or "my" in a story, such as in this opening scene:

     I never realized how beautiful the sunrise was before that day in July.
     It looked as though a painting were being created right before my eyes.
____________________________________

17. If you witness an unusual event over the weekend, and then you come to class and tell us all what happened, you are telling us an ___________.
18. When we compare groups of things so that we can see the similarities between items, such as "Talk is to chat as hop is to jump," we have used an _________________________. It can also be shown as the following:
                                           talk : chat :: hop : jump
(Note: The colon (:) stands for "is to," and the double colon (::) stands for "as."
Bonus: Can you complete the following one?
                          German Shepherd : dog :: peach : ______________
Hint: A German Shepherd is a type of dog, while a peach is a type of __________.
19. When you read a section of a story, and you make a guess as to its meaning based on the information you are given, you are making an ____________________________________. For instance, when I read that "Sam's face was beet red; his hands were curved into tight fists, while his eyes had a menacing glow," I may decide that Sam is quite angry or upset about something! 
20. If you tell me that your cousin "is a fish in the water," you are using a _______________________________, which is a direct comparison.
21. If you instead tell me the way your cousin swims "is LIKE a fish in the water," you are using a ____________________________.         
22. Every story we read has some sort of problem or ___________________, which is what the main character is trying to resolve.
23. A _________________ is a type of Japanese poetry that uses three lines, with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
24. When you say that you are reading a "mystery" or a "science fiction" novel, you are telling me what the ______________ of your book is. 
25. An _____________________ is a type of figurative language in which we have to figure out its meaning because it is NOT to be taken at face value. It is a twist in language that can be tricky because it cannot be translated literally.
An example could be: We are all in the same boat.
(Note: Unless we are all on a cruise ship taking a vacation, this sentence means we are all alike in our quest to do something OR we are all in this together.)       
26. The following sentence has _________________________________ because all the -ing words (which are gerunds--verbs that are used as nouns!) are used correctly:
                Rowana loves hiking, swimming, and horseback riding.

               This next sentence would NOT be correct because the third                             activity that Rowana loves to do does NOT end in -ing:

               Incorrect: Rowana loves hiking, swimming, and she loves to ride horses.

​27. If you tell me that a story takes place during 1967 in a small town outside of Boston, you have just given me the story's _________________.
28. A group of lines in a poem is NOT referred to as a paragraph; instead, we call it a _____________________________.
29. If you tell me that your niece is becoming a bus driver, but you also tell me that she has a fear of driving large vehicles, it is _______________ that she would choose this job.
30. A ______________________________ is a useful tool that consists of two large circles in which you compare and contrast characteristics of two people, places, or things by writing within the circles.