Literary Terms
Shown through dialogue and character actions
What is indirect characterization?
The thing doing the thing
What is the subject
A genre in which characters with a fatal flaw are brought low by the end
What is a tragedy?
The reason(s) that your thesis statement is true
What is a topic sentence
THE university that Newman Graduated from
What is THE Ohio State University?
The key phrase about this term is that it represents something more complex
What is symbolism?
It has the action done to it
What is the object?
The language of the time period is typically referred to by the monarch; this is what's found in Shakespeare's plays
Elizabethan English
The two items that must be included in an in-text citation
What are the author's last name and page number?
The pet Newman owns
What is a cat?
Not always the moral of the story, but sometimes!
What is a theme?
Two of these are connected by a semicolon
What are independent clauses
Shakespeare uses this poetic organization of phrases for many of his characters, typically to show more eloquent language, nobility, or to convey stronger emotion
What is verse?
The explanation of how your evidence proves your claim
What is a warrant/reasoning?
He thinks this work of fiction that he teaches in one of his classes is boring and obnoxious
What is Romeo and Juliet?
An example of this is how Jekyll's repressed, dignified manner contrasts from Hyde's wild, uncontrolled urges
What is foil?
Used to connect date and number ranges
What is an en dash?
A character speaks alone on a stage, typically bearing their inner thoughts and emotions
What is a soliloquoy?
The two big questions that you must address when analyzing a text
What are HOW and WHY?
The restaurants that Newman will defend to his last dying breath
What is Skyline Chili OR Taco Bell
The reader experiences this, not the author or narrator
However, therefore, while, and although are examples of this type of conjunction?
What is suboordinating?
Wherefore's closest modern-English word
What is why?
This must be able to be disputed; i.e. it's not a fact
What is an argument
The country(/ies) that Newman is visiting this summer
What is Albania, Kosovo, or Montenegro