Literary Terms
This literary term is another name for the character or force in opposition to the main character.
antagonist
When you include the title of a short story in your essay, the title gets quotations around it or it is italicized?
Short stories and poems go in quotation marks
Rashad is part of the ROTC. Which character really encourages him to continue his membership?
His father
This is the main “character” of the story, and the story is told from his first person point of view.
Elie Wiesel
(Wiesel 112).
This is called _____. It is how a writer gives attribution to a source.
Citation
This is the POV represented by “you” or “your”
Second Person
“On the Sidewalk Bleeding” was written in this Point of View (POV):
“The boy lay on the sidewalk bleeding in the rain. He was sixteen years old, and he wore a bright purple jacket, and the lettering across the back of the jacket read THE ROYALS.”
3rd person (limited)
AAB is written in this POV.
“I wasn’t sure what to do about any of it, or if I even wanted anyone else to do anything on my behalf. The looks on my friends’ and family’s faces—it hurt them to see me this way” (Reynolds and Kiely 161).
1st Person
This person witnessed people being executed, babies being shot, and he came back to Sighet to warn people. However, no one believed him.
Moishe the Beadle
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” is an example of…
parallelism
This is when two seemingly contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
Example: Act naturally
Oxymoron
This character becomes ashamed that he is only seen as a “Royal.”
Andy
This character says, “You think me sending it to the news is crazy? The crazy part is what happened to ‘Shad.” (Reynolds and Kiely 93).
Spoony, Rashad's brother
This character shares, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears.”
Elie
This is the style of font, size of font, AND line spacing used in MLA formatting.
Times New Roman size 12 double spaced
This literary term refers to something being the opposite in reality than how it appears to be. The phrase (translated) “Work will set you free” on a sign outside the Auschwitz death camp is an example.
irony
In “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” the inciting incident is when a Guardian stabs a Andy. What type of conflict is this?
(character vs. ?)
Character vs. Character
This character says, “Just step out of the way. Even if it’s ugly at school, this isn’t your fight. Why are you jumping in the middle of it?” (Reynolds and Kiely 264).
Quinn's mother
The title Night has a deeper meaning than just the timeframe between sunset and sunrise. Because of this, it could be considered this literary term.
Symbolism (or metaphor)
This is the name for your one-sentence argument in an essay. For a theme analysis paper, it includes your theme as well as the author's name and title of the book. It is the last sentence of your introduction paragraph.
Thesis
This literary terms utilizes the repetition of words or short phrases in order to build emphasis and rhythm
anaphora
This is the name of Andy's girlfriend
Laura
This character says, “Well, I’m telling you this. There was a woman in the store. The kid took her down because she caught him stealing. I went in to protect her, and then he went after me, okay?” (Reynolds and Kiely 209).
Paul Galluzzo
This character says, “Don’t let yourself be overcome with sleep, Eliezer. It’s dangerous to fall asleep now. One falls asleep forever.”
NAME REQUIRED
Shlomo
Rhetorical Question