Literary Terms 1
The hints an author gives about what is going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
Part of the plot in which actions, complications, and plot twists lead up to the climax.
What is rising action?
What part of speech is "quickly"?
What is an adverb?
Setting reveals what two things?
What is time and place?
What is the name of Ms. Perez's dog
Who is Millie?
The attitude of the writer towards their subject.
What is tone?
Type of characterization where the author shows/describes to the reader what the character is like
What is indirect characterization?
What type of sentence error is this?
Although they hated vegatables they loved a good salad.
What is a run-on?
The central message of a work of literature that readers can apply to life.
What is theme?
Name one of Mrs. Pod's favorite hobbies.
What is reading or walking the dogs on the beach?
The overall emotion felt by the reader when reading a story.
What is mood?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So are this type of conjunctions.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Name one of our principals'.
Who is Mr. Blackstone, Mrs. Elam, Mrs. Laws, Mrs. Goya, Mr. Crews, Mr. Irby, or Mr. Landinguin?
The point-of-view that uses an outside narrator to tell the story from all characters' P.O.V.
What is third person omniscient?
Identify the type of error in the sentence/passage.
When they finally breached the walls of Massada in A.D. 73.
What is a Sentence Fragment?
Name the character from "Marigolds" short story.
Who is Lizabeth?
Literary element that is the opposite of what is expected, but the reader knows more than the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
A quirky saying or expression specific to a language.
What is an idiom?
Name the type of figurative language.
With Mercury's mark on our sneakers, we outmaneuvered the footwork of the competition
What is an allusion?
To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.
What is an inference?
Name the character from "The Flowers"
Who is Myop?