Define These Literary Terms from Their Roots Flashcards

Song or songlike poem that tells a story. Most ballads have a regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme and used simple language and repetition.

Account of a perosn't life written or told by another person.

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Individual in a story, poem, or a play.

In general, a story that ends happily.

Struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotion. External conflict - a chracter struggles against an outside force. Internal conflict - is an opposing need of desires, or emotions.

All the meanings, associations, or emotion that a word suggests.

Two consecutive lines of poety that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm or rhyme.

Type of writing intended to create a mood or an emotion or to re-create a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an experience.

Way of speaking that is characteristics of a particular region or group of people.

Conversation between two or more characters.

Writer's or speaker's choice of words.

Story that is written to be acted for an audience.

A poem in which a speaker addresses one or more silent listener, often reflecting on a specific problem or situation.

Long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.