Literary Terms
The Interlopers
from A Match to the Heart
Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket
Extras
100
The main idea or message of a literary work.
What is theme?
100
Trespassing on another person's land to hunt or fish.
What is poaching?
100
These two life events "test her character".
What is being struck by lightening and finding a snake in the kitchen?
100
These are the things that ended up out the window.
What is Tom and a paper?
200
The sequence of events in a narrative work. It contains 5 parts.
What is plot?
200
Vocabulary: weakness; fatigue
What is languor?
200
This accident seriously injured Ehrlich. She believes she is dying.
What is being struck by lightening?
200
Vocabulary: turned in or wound up upon itself; coiled; twisted.
What is convoluted?
200
This is the term for two main clauses joined together with a comma and a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
300
The distinctive way in which an author uses language: word choice, phrasing, sentence length, tone, etc...
What is style?
300
The basic conflict that sets the plot in motion.
What is Ulrich wanting to catch Znaeym?
300
Vocabulary: mental, emotional, or physical balance
What is equilibrium?
300
This is the feeling pulling at Tom to go with his wife, and pulling to stay to work. Literary conflict
What is internal conflict?
300
This is an example of a simile.
What is (students will write a comparison using like or as).
400
The feeling or atmosphere that an author creates in a literary work.
What is mood?
400
The dark, foreboding words describe the visual image of restless creatures in the forest, along with it being at night.
What is the mood?
400
This contrasted the humor that the author used throughout the selection.
What is the seriousness of her condition, the medical facts?
400
The moment Tom captures the paper in triumph to look down onto the street so far below.
What is irony?
400
This is an example of a metaphor.
What is (student should write a comparison stating something "is" or "was" something).
500
A reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work.
What is tone?
500
This is the irony that the story ends with.
What is they will lose their lives at a point when they are forgiving one another?
500
The details the author gives us to provide the background information about the plot, the character, and setting is this.
What is exposition?
500
Tom begins to teeter on the ledge outside of his window. We the reader do not know what is happening and we teeter with him. (literary element)
What is suspense?
500
Tom and Ehrlich are examples of this.
What is the protagonist?
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