Lit People
The author of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Who is William Shakespeare?
A short story should be able to be completely read in _______ sitting.
What is one?
An indication of what is to come
What is foreshadowing?
The person telling the story is the __________.
Who is the narrator?
The central idea which gives a work meaning
What is theme?
The author of The Tell-Tale Heart.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The three sections of an article.
What are the heading, by-line, and body?
The change in a character that involves them overcoming obstacles and becoming a better person
What is a character arc?
The narrator in The Hound of Baskervilles.
Who is Watson?
The arrangement of events in a story or play, or the storyline
What is the plot?
The murderer in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Who is Jack Stapleton?
When a character in a play breaks the fourth wall, or talks directly to the audience
What is an aside?
A literary device that compares and contrasts one character with another to reveal their traits, motivations, or values
What is a Literary Foil?
The character in a story who is presented as the main enemy or rival of the protagonist and is often depicted as a villain.
Who is the antagonist?
A play that has a happy ending, typically involving marriages between the main character
What is a comedy?
the three groups in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Who are the Lovers, the Actors, and the Dreamers?
Don Quixote thought windmills were actually these
What are giants?
An unexplained reference to someone or something outside of the text.
What is an allusion?
Helena loved ___________.
Who is Demetrius?
The system of classification the library uses for non-fiction books
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
The narrator in A Tell-Tale Heart
Who is the unnamed murderer?
The narrator in “A Tell-Tale Heart” hated this about his neighbor
What are his eyes?
The act of talking to oneself or a dramatic speech that expresses a character's thoughts
What is a Soliloquy?
Lysander loved ____________.
Who is Hermia?
The three types of research sources
What are Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary?