Lit Terms
Author's View
Vocabulary
Plot
MISC
100
This is the reasons for a characters behaviors in story.
What is motivation?
100
The narrator is a character in the story. Pronouns are "I"and "me".
What is First Person POV
100
Of these four words, which most closely means incessant? Complete Continuous Timeless Imperfect
What is continuous?
100
This is where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
The Latin word lumen means “light.” This word most closely means luminous. clear glowing gentle blazing
What is glowing?
200
In this point of view the reader can only know one character in the story. They can only read his or her thoughts and feelings.
What is first person point of view?
200
A story is told from an all-knowing narrator view. The narrator sees into the minds of all the characters.
What is third-person omniscient POV?
200
Of the four, this word most closely means compensating: Searching Planning out Making up Considering
What is making up?
200
The winding down of a story.
What is the resolution?
200
An author provides quotes from someone in the field who is knowledgeable and trustworthy in the field is getting this type of support for his/her writing.
What is an expert?
300
In an author's word choice, words affect meaning and establish the ______ or attitude of the speaker.
What is tone?
300
Events are related from a narrator who tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observes.
What is third-person limited point of view?
300
Reflecting a favorable view of events and conditions and the expectation of a positive outcome is the definition of one of these words: Optimistic Brave Ambitious Effective
What is optimistic?
300
This part of the story is the highest point of emotional involvement.
What is the climax?
300
We used 75 blocks in the construction—not counting the many we broke trying to pry them from the snow. What phrase is an antonym of "pry them from" as it is used in the sentence? extract them from reinforce them in take them away from repair them in
What is reinforce them in?
400
"The sound of the horn grew distant, then faded in the wind that sighed in the trees all around us" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
400
These 2 points of view are similar but for one a character is in the story and the other he/she is not.
What is 3rd person limited POV and 1st Person POV
400
One of these four words mean concave: delicately designed temporary curved quickly built
What is curved?
400
If a passage was written from the point of view of character's mom in the story, the reader would not know: -how a son planned to help his mom become successful -how a truck crashed through the guardrail -when a character and his mother are traveling across the country -why a mom bought her son souvenirs
What is how a son planned to help his mom become successful?
400
The unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story. It can be best described as the dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story.
What is the central idea?
500
An author's word choice is important because it can create ________ ,or atmosphere, in a story.
What is mood?
500
The method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction
What is point of view?
500
This word is not a synonym of the other four: Impassively Emotionlessly Nervously Blankly Indifferently
What is Nervously?
500
The unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story. It can be best described as the dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story.
What is the central idea?
500
An igloo is a Canadian winter icon: visually pleasing, structurally simple yet highly effective, a common-sense solution to survival in a difficult landscape. Icon as used here most nearly means: Process for building a shelter Traditional activity in winter Pictorial representation of an object Symbol of a belief or country
What is Symbol of a belief or country?
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