Literary Devices
Drama Terms
Writing
Plot and characters
Wild Card
100

Details that appeal to one or more of the five senses

What is imagery?

100

a conversation between two or more characters in a book or play

what is dialogue?

100

"It" "Thing" "Very" "Really" are all examples of this

Empty, generic words (or words to avoid using in writing)

100

stories can be told in 1st person, 2nd person, or 3rd person

what is point of view?

100

When a website ends with .com.co this usually means...

It's unreliable or misinformation 

200

When an object represents an idea

what is symbolism?

200

a play on words, especially with a double meaning of words that are spelled or sound the same

what is a pun?

200

The sentence in your introduction that focuses your essay and presents your main point

What is a thesis?

200

When the narrator or other characters describe a character

what is direct characterization?

200
These websites are reliable for fact checking information posted on the internet

What is Snopes, Politifact, Washington Post fact checker, and/or FactCheck.org

300
A hint at future events

what is foreshadowing?

300

An extended speech given by one person to other people 

Monologue 

300

Illustrates, reveals, suggests, portrays, represents are all examples of this

strong verbs for analysis

300

The height of action or intensity of a plot

what is climax?
300

A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work.

What is a motif?

400

The main idea or message of a literary work

What is theme?

400

When a character is speaking out loud to himself/herself; no one else on stage can hear 

What is a soliloquy?

400

Images, metaphors, short provocative sentences, and questions are all example of this

What is an attention grabbing opening (or hook)?

400

the struggle occurring in a character's mind

what is internal conflict?

400

The cultural, social, emotional associations of a word

what is connotation?

500

The feeling a reader gets from descriptive details about setting; the feeling of the atmosphere

what is mood?

500

When the audience knows something the character doesn't, and the character acts in a very inappropriate or tragically wrong way due to lack of knowledge

what is dramatic irony?

500

Rather than dropping in a quotation as a separate sentence, effective writers do this.

What is blend the quotation into your own words?

500

A complex character who has layers

What is a round character?

500

A form of extended metaphor in which objects, people, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the story. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas.

What is allegory?

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