Grammar and Punctuation
This separates two closely linked independent clauses
This denotes a time and place in a narrative
Setting
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
These tell the story of someone's life and are written by a person other than the subject.
Biography
In contrast to tone, this refers to the emotional response of the reader evoked through language.
Mood
In MLA, book titles should be...
Italicized
This gives the reader hints of what's to come in a story
Foreshadowing
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
"Literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound and rhythm," according to Brittanica.
Poetry
Examples of this rhetorical device include sayings like "Big Baby," "Open Secret," and "Same Difference."
Oxymoron (a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction).
In MLA, short stories, chapter titles, and poems should go in...
Quotations
The central idea or message of a story
Theme
"All Summer in a Day"
Ray Bradbury
These are "a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation," according to the Dictionary.
Memoir
This six-syllable word refers to a word that sounds like what it is. For example, "buzz," "boom," and "meow".
onomatopoeia (a word that imitates the sound it refers to.)
In a works cited, this is typically listed first in a citation
Name of Author
An exaggerated statement for effect in a story
Hyperbole
"The Fun They Had"
Isaac Asimov
These works are intended to frighten audiences and elicit a feeling of dread, according to the CDE.
Horror
_________ irony is when "the audience or reader knows more than the characters know," according to Yale.
Dramatic Irony
Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
The name for this punctuation mark can replace omitted words...
Ellipsis
This refers to the perceivable attitude of the author towards a subject
Tone
"The Lottery"
Shirley Jackson
Works of this genre tend to incorporate futuristic elements and speculate about life as influenced by technological change (ex: "All Summer in a Day" and The Hunger Games).
Sci-Fi
This refers to a term that makes a harsh or blunt word/phrase milder and less direct (Ex: Instead of "military attack," one might say "armed intervention").
Euphemism