Lit Terms
Standards
What is criteria?
A clause that has a subject, predicate, and is a complete thought. It can be a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
A sentence made up of one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
(At least) Three types of horror stories.
What are parallel worlds, "the fantastic" (supernatural), something that seems supernatural but is actually natural, and insanity?
The most important sentence in an essay and tells what the entire essay is about.
What is a thesis?
A feeling of growing tension or excitement felt by the reader.
What is suspense?
A dependent clause that describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective clause?
A sentence made up of two or more independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
Torrence's opinion on telling children scary stories in "Scary Tales."
What is children should be frightened?
A person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
One who tells a story or interprets events in a way that makes the reader doubt what he or she is saying.
What is an unreliable narrator?
A dependent clause that tells where, when, why, or how much?
What is an adverb clause?
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Poe uses this to emphasize a particular idea, create suspense, and give a sense of insanity.
What is repetition?
A word that modifies a verb, adverb, or adjective.
What is an adverb?
His or her reason for writing.
What is an author's purpose?
Used at the start of an adjective clause and includes words such as that, who, whom, whose, or which?
What is a relative pronoun?
A command.
What is an imperative sentence?
The connotation of the word "slab" in "The Outsider."
What is a tomb stone?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What are conjunctions?
The author's perspective; the unique combination of ideas, values, feelings, and beliefs that influence the way the writer views a topic.
What is the author's viewpoint?
A clause that has a subject and a predicate only.
What is a dependent clause?
A sentence that makes a statement and ends in a period.
What is a declarative statement?
The reason why people are afraid of Frankenstein's monster.
What is ugly and makes ugly noises?
A clause can not be considered a complete sentence without these three parts.
What is a subject, predicate, and complete thought?