Short Stories
This story really "rocks."
What is "The Lottery"
Ssssomething to ssssing a ssssong about.
What is alliteration.
His mistress's eyes are nothing like this celestial body.
What is the sun?
Often a poet will use this to convey a deeper meaning because the meaning goes far beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
What is proofreading.
Always check what's above you, as this story teaches us.
What is "To Build a Fire."
The function of this perspective is to control the details and emphases that affect how the readers experience and interpret the text.
What is the narrative/narrator?
These people stood in front of the stage at Shakespeare's play performances.
We use this term to describe the basic unit of poetic meter. It consists of any of various fixed patterns of one to three stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is a foot?
This sentence, usually at the end of the introduction, states the central argument of an analytical essay.
What is a thesis?
One setting in this story is San Antonio.
What is "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"?
This detail in a text can also convey societal values associated with it.
What is the setting?
The first setting in Othello.
What is Venice?
Repetition or correspondence of the terminal sounds of words, usually at the end of a line of poetry.
What is rhyme?
Restating a source's ideas in your own words while still giving credit to the original author
What is paraphrasing?
The main character sees the world from his front porch more than he should.
What is "Soldier's Home"?
This is the arrangement of the parts and sections of a text, along with the relationship of those parts to each other, and the sequence in which information is revealed other than the reader.
What is the plot?
This character says, "I bleed sir, but not killed."
Who is Iago?
We use this word in poetry to describe what we call a narrator in fiction.
What is speaker?
In MLA format, the alphabetical list of all sources used in a paper, placed at the end, is called this
What is the works cited page?
The main character of this story just wants to live for herself.
What is "The Story of an Hour"
We use this word to name the real meaning of a text.
What is "theme"?
This small item becomes the most important stage prop in all of Othello.
What is the handkerchief?
This is the general term used to describe the many devices of language that allow us to speak nonliterally to achieve some special effect.
What is figurative language?
A brief summary of a source's content and an evaluation of its relevance and quality, used in research.
What is an annotated bibliography?