Literary Movements
This genre features gloomy settings, supernatural elements, and themes of fear or death.
Answer: What is Gothic literature?
Language that uses sensory details to create a vivid picture.
Answer: What is descriptive language?
The perspective from which a story is told (first, second, or third).
Answer: What is narrative point-of-view?
circum-
Answer: What is a around?
A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
Answer: What is a noun?
This updated Gothic style often places terror in modern settings, like a decaying house or psychological trauma.
Answer: What is modern Gothic literature?
Language that is clear, short, and to the point.
Answer: What is concise language?
A point of view where the narrator knows all characters’ thoughts and feelings.
Answer: What is omniscient point-of-view?
-ism
Answer: What is a belief system/practice?
A word that expresses an action or state of being.
Answer: What is a verb?
A style that blends realistic settings with magical elements treated as ordinary.
Answer: What is magical realism?
Language filled with imagery, rhythm, and figurative devices.
Answer: What is poetic language?
Written conversation between characters.
Answer: What is dialogue?
-logy
Answer: What is study of?
A word that describes a noun.
Answer: What is an adjective?
Poetry that tells a story with characters, conflict, and plot.
Answer: What is narrative poetry?
Language in which words or images stand for deeper meanings (a dove = peace).
Answer: What is symbolic language?
he emotional attitude an author conveys toward the subject (e.g., sarcastic, hopeful).
Answer: What is tone?
poly-
Answer: What is many?
A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb, often, but not always, ending in “-ly.”
Answer: What is an adverb?
This technique builds suspense, conflict, or uncertainty in a text.
Answer: What is tension in literature?
Language that heightens emotions and builds intensity, often in plays.
Answer: What is dramatic language?
When events or language have multiple possible meanings.
Answer: What is ambiguity in literature?
psych-
Answer: What is "mind," "soul," "spirit,"?
A word part added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning, e.g., “un-” in “undo.”
Answer: What is a prefix?