Lit Terms
A universal truth or insight revealed in literature
What is theme?
Clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving; burdensome
What is cumbersome?
Identify the Subject:
The small, round ball bounced down the hallway.
What is ball?
The story in which everyone stones one person from the town
What is "The Lottery"?
What is this sentence missing?
We went to the game and came home late
What is a period?
The words a writer uses and the enunciation of words.
What is diction?
lasting for a long time, persistent; (n) a plant that lives for many years
What is perennial?
Identify the verb:
The running water flowed through the crack in the pipe.
What is flowed?
The object that the narrator in the "Tale Tell Heart" obsessed over and "made" kill the old man
What is the old man's eye?
Identify the missing punctuation:
After the game we decided to stop by Dairy Queen before going home.
What is a comma?
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable
What is erratic?
Identify the Predicate Adjective:
The fallen tree was rotten on the inside.
What is rotten?
This story was ironic because the main character died when she learned that her husband wasn't dead
What is "The Story of an Hour"?
Identify the missing punctuation:
The girls team won the championship last night.
What is an apostrophe?
The writer's attitude toward the topic
What is tone?
Firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back
What is unflinching?
Identify the Participle:
My sister stepped onto the broken chair and fell; I filmed it all.
What is broken?
This story is told from a 1st person point of view though we don't know the name of the narrator
What is "The Tale Tell Heart"?
Identify the missing punctuation:
That's not fair! she yelled at me.
What are quotation marks?
The use of logical facts and arguments to prove a point
What is logos?
to pardon or overlook
What is condone?
Identify the gerund:
Basically, swimming is a really important sport in my family.
What is swimming?
This story used foreshadowing at the beginning to give the reader a hint about what would happen later
What is "The Lottery" OR "The Story of an Hour"?
Identify the missing punctuation:
For the holiday, we will travel, eat, and visit family I am looking forward to it!
What is a semicolon?