Short Stories
The being telling the story, either in first-, second-, or third-person
Who is the narrator?
This rhetorical device utilizes quantifiable facts and details to sway an audience.
What is Logos?
A "TAG" line in an essay introduction stands for these three words.
What are Title, Author, and Genre?
What is rhyme?
This year's Summer Olympics are held in this country.
What is France?
The biggest moment of tension in a story when the protagonist must make a choice.
What is the climax?
This is the definition of "bias".
What is the tendency to prefer one thing over another, regardless of what evidence is provided for either side? (Also accepting similar wording)
A thesis can be defined with these two descriptors:
What are "arguable claim?"
What is the use of any combination of the senses to paint a picture in the reader's mind?
The modern classic, The Hunger Games, follows protagonist Katniss Everdeen's tribulations. This character's actress in the movie adaptations is _____.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
In order, the six components of a plot diagram
What are exposition, (initial) conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
This term describes a personal story speakers may use to have the audience relate to them.
What is an anecdote?
This is the difference between plot summary and analysis.
What is plot as being what happens in the story and analysis being the writer's explanation of that plot's significance?
This is the major difference between a metaphor and simile.
The stored energy of position possessed by an object is referred to as ___.
What is potential energy?
One may discuss this "big takeaway" in an essay to talk about the "so what?" of a short story.
What is a theme?
Often in the name of making money or building reputation, companies and individuals may perform this without actually acting upon what they discuss.
What is virtue signalling?
What are "a restatement of the main ideas/thesis" and "the big takeaways"
These are the "three pillars" of poetry discussed in class that can help you to better understand any given poem.
What are the poem's context, the poem's form, and the poem's figurative language/devices?
Name at least 9 different Pokémon types.
What are (any combination of): Normal, Fire, Water, Grass, Flying, Fighting, Poison, Electric, Ground, Rock, Psychic, Ice, Bug, Ghost, Steel, Dragon, Dark, and Fairy?
This narration style consists of the narrator "knowing all" and speaking with an objective point-of-view rather than a subjective one.
What is third-person omniscient (point-of-view)?
This is the definition of framing, as found in news sources and rhetorical speaking.
These words, such as "because", "whenever", and "without", can be used to add arguments or details in the second half of your sentences.
What are subordinating conjunctions/subordinating clauses?
This poetic device involves two or more similar vowel sounds found within the lines of a poem.
What is assonance?
This is the national animal of Scotland. For some reason.
What is the unicorn?