Plot & Narration
A diagram that organizes the events of a story in the order they happen.
Plot Diagram/Plot Chart
The general term for informal language (not specific to any one group or area)
Colloquial Language
(63rds)
The moral or lesson of a story?
A story connected to a culture that is designed to explain the way of the world.
Myth
A literary device where the action pauses to show something that happened BEFORE the beginning of the action.
Flashback
The use of repetitive consonant sounds at the start of a word.
Alliteration
(67 god)
Different people may pick up on different themes based on their own background and experiences. This means theme is _______.
Subjective
Interjection
The "paragraphs" of a poem
Stanza
A literary device where the author hints at something that is going to happen, but hasn't yet.
Foreshadowing
Giving human behavior to non-human things.
Anthropomorphism
(Swifties)
Theme is developed through the use of what?
Literary Devices
The part of speech that modifies verbs or adjectives.
Adverbs
True or False: In a drama, all text is considered dialogue.
False
There are two main categories of conflict. Name them.
Internal & External
Literary Devices are used to do what?
Create meaning and tension
(Dear Basketball)
A theme statement must be ____ in order to be correct, meaning it should apply to any person in any story without changing.
Universal
What is a linking verb?
Shows state of being or relate nouns to predicate words
(Ballers)
A character speaking to ONLY the audience of a play on stage - no other characters are present.
Soliloquy
The POV where a narrator is outside of the story and can tell you the thoughts and feelings of ALL characters
3rd Person Omniscient
A literary device where the subject of a sentence is replaced with an IDEA related to the subject (Example: Check out my new ride!)
Metonymy
(A Students)
I gave you an acronym to work through figuring out the theme and its development. What is that acronym?
THEME
What are the two things a sentence MUST contain to truly be a sentence?
Subject & Predicate
(St. Nick)
The event that gets the ball rolling in a story.
Inciting Incident