Literary Definitions
This literary term describes a central message throughout a narrative.
What is theme?
(O'Brien 25) is an example of what?
What is a citation?
The idea that war is, at its core, a destructive force might be considered one of the central _________ in The Things They Carried.
What is themes?
This is a page that goes after an essay (e.g. a research essay) that cites one's sources.
What is a works cited page?
This is the type of font you should use in an MLA formatted paper.
What is Times New Roman?
This literary definition describes the author's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.
What is tone?
This is typically the last sentence in an introduction paragraph.
What is a thesis statement?
These are the protagonists in The Great Gatsby.
Who are Nick and Gatsby?
Cory deciding to go to Troy's funeral and Gabriel singing his song about the gates of Heaven is an example of the __________ of a story.
What is resolution?
This is the main idea of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
This literary device is the use of any person, situation, or object to represent an idea of some sort.
What is symbolism?
A person uses citations to avoid this.
What is plagiarism?
In Fences, Troy getting into a fight with Cory over football is an example of __________ conflict.
What is character vs. character?
The breaking of the clock is an example of ___________ in The Great Gatsby, as it hints that Gatsby will fail to recover his past.
You should avoid using this word/phrase to explain a piece of evidence.
What is "this shows?"
This literary term means "use vivid language designed to appeal to these senses."
What is a imagery?
This part of your body paragraph is necessary before giving evidence from the text.
What is context?
In The Great Gatsby, the green light is a prominent _________, representing unattainable dreams.
What is a symbol?
When punctuating a quote, the period goes here.
What is at the end of the citation?
This is the order of the date in an MLA header.
What is day, month, year?
This literary device is the close placement of contrasting ideas, images, or entities, with the intent of highlighting the contrast between those entities.
What is juxtaposition?
This is another name for a very short story, sometimes used as the hook for an essay.
What is an anecdote?
In The Things They Carried, the mention of stars that keeps getting repeated is an example of this literary element.
What is motif?
When mentioning the title of a chapter within The Things They Carried, this is how you have to format it.
What is quotation marks?
This is the order of information in an MLA header.
What is your name, teacher name, class, date?