Short Story
Poetry
Drama
Wild Card!
100

In this story, a couple is at odds over whether to keep an unplanned pregnancy.

What is "Hills like White Elephants"?

100

This Japanese poetic form has only three lines.

What is haiku?

100

This is a long speech by a single character.

What is a monologue?

100

According to Aristotle, this should happen at almost the same moment as the reversal.

What is recognition (anagnorisis) 

200

Arnold Friend could represent this in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

What is the devil/Hades/a predator?

200

This poetic form does not follow a regular rhyme or meter pattern.

What is free verse?

200

This is a long speech by a single character who appears alone on stage.

What is a soliloquy?

200

Our guest screenwriters are working on this show.

What is Far Cry? (Alien Earth/Avatar also accepted)

300

This writer coined the Iceberg Method.

Who is Hemingway?
300

This 14-line poetic form is closely associated with Plutarch and Shakespeare.

What is the sonnet?

300

This is a feeling of pity and terror, followed by a sense of cleansing

What is catharsis?

300

When writing dialogue, you should begin a new _____________ when introducing a new speaker.

What is a line or paragraph?

400

This is the plot structure many myths and stories follow.

What is the Hero's Journey?

400

This type of poetry comments on a work of visual art.

What is ekphrasis?

400

This is the moment toward the end of the story when things change dramatically (good to bad, or bad to good)

What is the reversal (peripeteia)?

400

The character's past is known as the _______________.

What is backstory?

500

Finish this sentence: "Show, don't ________"

What is tell?

500

Finish this line of poetry: "It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the _____."

What is the sea?

500

The comedic hero is usually ___________ to the average person.

What is inferior?

500

This is a term for beginning a story in the middle of the action.

What is in medias res?

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