Texts
In this text, Malorie must wear a blindfold while giving birth and navigating a river or risk going insane.
Birdbox
When analyzing a poem in class, our first box in the graphic organizer is labelled as...
First Notices
This is the literary term for the moral, message, or lesson of a story or poem.
Theme
This is created in a text to give the reader a feeling of anxiety about what might happen.
Suspense
This is the type of conflict most often found in dystopian stories.
Character vs Society
This text was written by Mary Shelley as part of a contest between friends and is widely regarded as the first work of science fiction.
Frankenstein
When analyzing a poem in class, the second and third boxes are labelled as...
Emotions and Questions
This term describes anything that is strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way
Uncanny
A story can be described with this word if it disturbing or horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death or injury.
Macabre
Despite often having altruistic goals, dystopian societies often suffer from...
Unintended Consequences
In this story, a bitter nobody is able to take control of his country's government and seeks to commit genocide on a neighboring country.
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
This is the term for the first sentence in a correctly-written paragraph
Topic Sentence (Thesis Statement)
Giving human characteristics or abilities to something not human is called...
Personification
One reason it's important to read dystopian stories is so that the reader can compare these fictional worlds with...
Our real world.
This story included characters such as M'Ling, the Sayer of the Law, and the Hyena-Swine.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Both of these "e words" describe what a writer needs to support his or her idea when writing a paragraph.
Examples and Explanation
Lovecraft's idea that humanity is a small, insignificant aspect of a grand universe is called...
Cosmicism
Many of Edgar Allen Poe's characters suffer from this, the state of being mentally ill, especially severely.
Madness
In Unaccompanied Sonata, our introduction to the Watcher who is blind is an example of this, because it hints at Christian's ultimate fate.
Foreshadowing
This story, written by Edgar Allen Poe, is considered one of the first detective stories.
The Murders of the Rue Morgue
This is term for the inclusion of the author and title of a text in a sentence.
Attribution
This is the term for the emotional feel of a text, created through specific language meant to put the reader in a specific emotional state.
Mood
In Birdbox by Josh Malerman, the box of birds symbolizes...
The Lottery is an ________ title, because the winner in this story actually gets an awful death rather than some kind of prize.
Ironic (situational)