At the Beginning
Lit Terms
More Lit Terms
What is it?
Short Stories
100
jacket mascot
What is a yellow jacket?
100
repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
What is alliteration?
100
who's side of the story we see
point of view
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
alliteration
100
What crime Montressor commits
What is murder?
200
According to the fight song, this cannot be denied.
What is history?
200
an interruption in a chronological narrative that tells about something that happened before that point in the story or before the story started
What is a flashback?
200
the struggle between two opposing forces
conflict
200
She is as lovely as a rose.
simile
200
Fortunado's costume is
What is a clown or jester?
300
According to the alma mater, how do we feel about our school.
What is we love so dear?
300
compares two things using like or as
simile
300
the use of clues by the author to prepare the reader for events that will happen in the story
foreshadowing
300
The park was perfect, a Garden of Eden.
allusion
300
Montresor is mad because
What is he believes that Fortunado insulted him.
400
In September of 2014, something exciting happened at DHS. What was it?
Moving into the new school.
400
the emotional quality or atmosphere of a story
What is tone?
400
the point of greatest emotional intensity or interest; where the conflict is resolved
climax
400
the use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes; for example, boom hiss
onomatopoeia
400
Nick name of the island
What is Ship Trap Island?
500
Where you put your papers to be graded.
In the basket
500
the time and place of the story
setting
500
a comparison made by calling one thing another; does not use like or as
metaphor
500
The sun smiled down on the hikers.
personification
500
How long Mrs. Loisel works to pay the money back for the necklace.
What is 10 years?
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