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
At the end of the story, this “malevolent phantom” reveals himself to the Finch family and saves Jem and Scout from harm.
Boo
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
At the start of the novel this character can read and write in cursive… much to the dismay of her teacher.
Scout
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
This word is an adjective that means evil or wishing bad things.
Malevolent
These are the FOUR types of conflict (Hint: character vs. self)
character vs. character
Character vs. Self
Character vs. nature
Character vs. society
This character during the climax of the story takes off his jacket which has the fateful label “Royal” on it.
Andy
This character says, “Most people are [real nice], Scout, when you finally see them.”
Atticus
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 that is used in English academic papers. Hint: It includes “M” for “Modern.”
MLA
Modern Language Association
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
This character thinks, “He was not a Royal… he wondered suddenly if the Guardians who ambushed him and knifed him had ever once realized he was…?”
Andy
This character is on trial for a crime he did not commit.
Tom Robinson
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 word is a verb which means to say someone is NOT guilty of a crime.
Acquit
This literary terms utilizes the repetition of words or short phrases in order to build emphasis and rhythm
anaphora
The moment on the plot diagram when the exposition moves into the rising action (hint: inciting…)
Inciting incident
This character says, “That’s what I thought, too, …when I was your age. If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other?”
Jem
This character says, “Don’t let yourself be overcome with sleep, Eliezer. It’s dangerous to fall asleep now. One falls asleep forever.”
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Shlomo
This word is a noun that means bravery or audacity
temerity