Literary Terms

3. The faculty or activity of imagining things that are impossible or improbable.
7. The form taken by a literary work.
9. A trite or overused expression or idea.
11. The leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
13. Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
14. The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
16. A device often used in poetry, displaying one thing as another.
19. A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.
20. A traditional story, explaining unnatural phenomenon.

1. Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas.
2. Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
4. The people who watch or listen.
5. A deceptive appearance or impression.
6. A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone.
8. A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.
10. A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content or technique.
12. A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
15. A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming.
17. Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.
18. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.