Narration/Character
Setting
Structure
Literary Argumentation
Figurative Language
100
the narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
100

Introduces characters, situation, and setting in the beginning of the text. 

What is exposition? 

100
the main idea or most important point in a sentence. Its position may be varied for effect.
What is climax?
100

A statement of interpretation that requires defense with evidence from the text. 

What is a claim or thesis statement? 

100

a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.

What is metaphor?

200
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
200

Allows an author to fill in the reader about a place, event, or character after it has already happened.

What is a flashback?

200

the rhythm or "music" of a sentence that come through parallel elements and repetition.

What is cadence?

200

One of the four forms of discourse which uses logic, ethics, and emotional appeals (logos, ethos, pathos) to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way.

What is argumentation? 

200

An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.

What is an allusion?

300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300

The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a location/setting, person, or idea. 

What is imagery? 

300

Ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form.

What is prose? 

300

Identifying and exploring complexities or tensions within the poem or illuminating the student’s interpretation by situating it within a broader context.

What is sophistication? 

300

The technique of opening an epic not in the chronological point at which the sequence of events would start, but rather at the midway point of the story.

What is in media res? 

400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
400

A short musical phrase alluding to a specific location, person, or idea. 

What is leitmotif? 

400
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.
What is parallel sentence or parallel structure?
400

The explanation as to why the evidence you selected is the best illustration of your theme/thesis/claim.  

What is line of reasoning? 

400

A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. 

What is synecdoche? 
500
the pace or speed of a sentence (or group of sentences) that comes through a variety of means, such as length of words, number of words, omission of words or punctuation, etc.
What is narrative pace?
500

Placing an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong time period

What is anachronism? 

500

Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure.

What is antithesis? 

500

An argument in which it is thought that the premises provide a guarantee of the truth of the conclusion.

What is deductive reasoning? 

500
a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of an experience is used to represent the whole experience.
What is metonymy?
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