Fiction
Non-Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Odds & Ends
100
This is the central problem of a story, the disagreement that pushes the story.
What is Conflict?
100
A piece of writing that struggles or works out an idea or a specific topic.
What is an essay?
100
A dramatic work that concerns the fall of a hero, through some sort of character flaw or poor judgment
What is a tragedy?
100
A song, or song-like poem that tells a story.
What is a ballad?
100
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound within a line or lines of poetry.
What is alliteration?
200
The method by which an author tells you about the characters, directly or indirectly.
What is characterization?
200
A work that makes fun of human weakness or vice in order to inspire change in behavior.
What is satire?
200
The main character of the tragedy we read.
Who is Macbeth?
200
A 14 line poem that is written in iambic pentameter, that is made up of three quatrains and a couplet, or an octave and a sestet.
What is a sonnet?
200
A repeated pattern across multiple cultures, at multiple times.
What is an archetype?
300
This is the main idea of a story; the general comment or truth about the human experience of a story.
What is theme?
300
A written work that is mean to record events accurately and objectively.
What is a journal?
300
Macbeth's Tragic Flaw.
What is ambition?
300
Poetry that mourns the loss of something or someone.
What is elegiac poetry?
300
A source that is direct, an eye-witness; from the horse's mouth.
What is a primary source?
400
How an author feels about the subject of a text.
What is tone?
400
A written work about a person's life, that is written by the person themselves.
What is an autobiography?
400
Shakespeare wrote all of his dramatic works using this pattern of non-rhyming iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
400
The person talking in a poem.
Who is the speaker?
400
The pattern of ending sounds that is present within poetry.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
All of the parts of a story, including the exposition, the rising action, the climax, and the resolution.
What is plot arc?
500
The system of documentation that is use in writing that concerns literature, especially in this class.
What is MLA format?
500
Shakespeare uses these for emphasis in his dramas.
What is a couplet?
500
The repetition of vowel sounds within a line or lines of poetry.
What is assonance?
500
A comparison that does not use "like" or "as" that goes beyond the initial comparison into multiple lines.
What is an extended metaphor?
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