Literary Terms
In "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the narrator follows Mitty through the story and only shares his thoughts and feelings, exhibiting this type of point of view.
What is 3rd person limited?
Zaroff leaves Rainsford unharmed up in the tree, creating this type of literary technique.
What is suspense?
Every paragraph should start with a ______________ that tells what the paragraph will be about.
What is a topic sentence?
These can be used in many ways to clarify meaning, including in lists, after a transition word at the beginning of a sentence, or before a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS) in a compound sentence.
What are commas?
The type of conflict in "The Masque of the Red Death" could be interpreted as person vs. ______.
What is Fate?
This type of characterization is used in "The Lottery" when Mr. Summers is described as "a round-faced, jovial man."
What is direct characterization?
Animal Farm, with is symbolic characters and events, is this type of story.
What is an allegory?
The sentence that gives an overview of the main ideas of an entire essay is called a __________.
What is a semicolon?
The root word cred means _____.
What is believable?
While the setting of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker is the late 1960's or early 70's in the rural South, but the common search for roots and cultural identity during this time is the _______ of the story.
What is context?
This type of irony is used when we think that winning the lottery will bring good fortune, but in the story it brings tragedy.
What is situational irony?
These are words you may use to introduce a quote.
What is "According to"?
This type of sentence begins with a subordinate clause (SWABI+ phrase).
What is a complex sentence?
Sometimes considered the "cultural" definition, the ________ of a word is the feeling it invokes in the reader or listener, not the dictionary definition of the word.
What is connotation?
Mrs. Mallard's feeling towards her husband's death changes from when she immediately "wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment" to letting it sink in and feeling "Free! Body and soul free!" This is a shift in ________.
What is tone?
The masked figure's arrival at Prince Prospero's masquerade is this part of the plot structure.
What is the climax?
What is a page number?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so are all this part of speech, used to connect two words, ideas, or phrases.
When following this style guide, your document will be set up with a header, a heading, a centered title, double spaced lines, and 11 or 12 point readable font.
What is MLA format?
This literary technique is used when Rainsford is attempting to evade Zaroff and thinks, "I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable," referring to Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Cat."
What is allusion?
"Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain." From this line in "All Summer in a Day," we can figure out that Margot remembers a time without rain. This conclusion is an ___________.
What is an inference?
Using your own words to tell about a text is called this.
What is paraphrasing?
These three elements are necessary for creating an independent clause, also known as a complete sentence. (Name all 3.)
What are: a subject, a verb, and a complete thought?
Authority, accuracy, coverage, currency, and objectivity should be considered when doing this with a source.
What is evaluating credibility?