FINAL EXAM REVIEW

A pair of two lines in a poem containing end rhymes

• quatrain

• stanza

• couplet

• verse

The main part of the story where complications arise

• climax

• falling action

• rising action

• resolution

The author interrupts the plot to recreate an event of earlier time

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• cliffhanger

• flashforward

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• understatement

A repetition of consonant sounds among words

• assonance

• alliteration

• consonance

• rhyme

The main character in a story

• antagonist

• protagonist

• supporting character

• narrator

The narrator is not in the story but focuses on one character’s point of view

• first person

• third person limited

• second person

• third person omniscient

The repetition of vowel sounds among words

• assonance

• alliteration

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

A single line of a poem

• stanza

• verse

• couplet

• lyric

The effect when the reader or audience knows something a character doesn’t know

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• narrative irony