Character
a character who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary
What is an antagonist?
a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning.
What is a couplet?
verified text that has been collected from the original source or document that supports a thesis or an argument, often appearing as a quotation or descriptive text
What is text evidence?
the narrator's outlook or view on the story's events, characters, and the world
What is perspective?
be a warning or indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing?
characters in a story that are not as important as the major characters, but still play a large part in the story
What are minor characters?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
a short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay
What is a thesis statement?
the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story
What is first person point of view?
the tone or mood in a piece of writing is changed in order to define characters or make a novel or poem more interesting, engaging, and effective
What is a shift?
the description of a character's physical traits (how a character looks), point of view, personality, private thoughts, and actions.
What is characterization?
a comparison between two unlike things that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.
What is an extended metaphor?
a complete sentence (or two) that express a theme
What is a thematic statement?
the attempt to indicate on the printed page, through spellings and misspellings, ellipses, apostrophes, syntactical shifts, signals, etc., the speech of an ethnic, regional or racial group
What is dialect?
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is plot?
a character that doesn't change throughout the telling of the story
What is a static character?
refers to a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object
What is apostrophe?
an argument that can reasonably be argued (even if it's the weaker argument) and is not an obvious truth about the content / text
What is defensible thesis?
19th century writing that depicts life as it is
What is realism?
the moment when a character is suddenly struck with a life-changing realization
What is epiphany?
a struggle within a person's mind over a problem or question
What is internal conflict?
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is parody?
the way that claims and reasons are arranged to lead to the conclusion
What is a line of reasoning?
a tells readers all the pertinent information they need to know, albeit from their own point of view, and they do so as accurately as possible and in good faith
What is a reliable narrator?
a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue
What is stream-of-consciousness?