Literary Terms
A person, place or thing that exists in a story, and that represents an abstract idea and/or theme.
What is a symbol?
Corey caused problems for himself by doing this to Troy regarding the elder's baseball skills.
What is goading?
The name of the page that documents the sources cited within your paper.
What is the Works Cited page?
An essential part of a larger entity is considered as this.
What is integral?
The socioeconomic state of the migrant families in Grapes of Wrath.
What is destitution?
The idea that the mistakes and crimes of a parent deeply affects the children in Fences.
What is a theme?
Outside cats.
What is feral?
What you place in parentheses (in-text) citations when there is only one source being used in your paper.
What is page number only?
Sometimes related to sexually mature content, but always intended to be shocking.
What is provocative?
Your little bro probably does this to show he admires you.
What is emulation?
Saying one thing and meaning another is an example of this device.
What is irony, or verbal irony?
Land that is unharvested, and that holds great potential.
What is fallow?
This is found under the heading and centered above the text that follows it in an MLA formatted paper.
What is an original title?
The word that describes bad, bloody conflict
What is internecine?
The nearness of you. The nearness.
What is propinquity?
The use of this device allows Caitlin Horricks to be a voice of an experience we all understand.
What is point of view?
Your attitude when you feel overwhelmed with homework and it's a miserable day.
What is sullen?
The correct width for all margins in an MLA paper.
What is one inch?
uh. Confusing.
What is abstruse?
Shhh. She's asleep.
What is quiescence?
The Dust Bowl is an unexpected but accurate example of this literary device that denotes conflict with or for the protagonist(s).
What is an antagonist?
Your understanding of material when you forget to study.
What is nebulous?
When there is no author in a source, this is what you will generally find in the parenthetical citation.
What is the first word of the title of the source?
The word for you when you work logically, step-by-step through a process.
What is methodical?
Ever accomplishing this between Israel and Palestine seems impossible.
What is rapprochement?