Unit 1
Having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.
What is credulous?
To make less intense; reduce the severity of.
What is assuage?
To make a long oration or speak at length.
What is harangue?
Irritation or annoyance.
What is vexation?
To move into or advance toward gradually and stealthily.
What is encroach?
When a concept is directly stated in a piece of literature.
What is explicit meaning?
Familiar, commonly used character types and situations in stories.
What are archetypes?
Events that occur in a narrative, including exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
A literary device in which words are used in a way that implies the opposite of their literal meaning.
What is irony?
The point of highest tension or intensity, and is often a turning point or decisive moment in the action.
What is climax?
Prefix and Suffix
What are affixes?
An overarching message or truth that is specific to a story.
What is a central idea?
Development of characters, which can relate to internal or external conflict.
What is characterization?
An author’s attitudes, values, or opinions that influence the representation of a topic.
What is perspective?
The rhythm of the story.
What is pacing?
When a concept is implied in a piece of literature.
What is implicit meaning?
The time and location in which the story takes place.
What is setting?
A literary device that uses humor or irony to ridicule customs or institutions found in a society.
What is satire?
A literary device in which an author uses a harsher form of irony to express disapproval of someone or something, often by mockingly stating the opposite of what is actually meant.
What is sarcasm?
A warning or indication of (a future event).
What is foreshadowing?
A source used to help a writer or reader understand a word or how to use it.
What is a reference source?
The central message or universal truth that the author conveys through the characters and plot.
What is a theme?
Writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject and approach to the audience.
A word's dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
An element of narrative text structure that provides information about events that have occurred earlier?
What is flashback?