Concluding Section that completes the purpose of a story
What is an Epilogue?
100
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals
What is Personification?
100
The difference between what appears to be true and what actually is true.
What is irony?
100
Published notification of a person's death. Usually includes name, residence, and personal information.
What is an obituary?
100
The peak of action and emotional intensity
What is the climax?
200
A character or force that causes the main character trouble or problems
What is an Antagonist?
200
Regularly repeated line or phrase that repeats itself.
What is a refrain?
200
literary form that recreates human life and emotions; based upon a written script and living forms for stage, using dialogue and action to form a frame of events
What is Drama?
200
A statement which introduces a book and explains the purpose, or gives a history.
What is a preface?
200
A secondary reading source who helps locate writing errors
What is peer review?
300
A secondary situation or problem of less importance than the main conflict
What is a subplot?
300
A comparison of two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
300
character who is used or manipulated to highlight the personality traits of a main (more important) character; serves to further develop the main character by showing contrast
What is a foil?
300
A legal declaration telling how a person wants their possessions to be distributed after their death.
What is a legal will?
300
Casual word that is unacceptable in formal writing "don't in place of do not"
What is a Contraction?
400
Present action is interrupted to show past events.
What is a flashback?
400
A poetic device where two words meaning the exact opposite are brought together to create a new meaning.
"Definite maybe", "New Tradition", "Virtual Reality"
What is an Oxymoron?
400
a speech delivered by one actor in imagined privacy (believes thoughts spoken aloud are secret); audience (and any character who is eavesdropping) can hear these private thoughts, which reveal true feelings or plans
What is a Soliloquy?
400
Reference to a famous person or event in history.
What is an Allusion?
400
The general subject for writing, the focus
What is the topic?
500
A brief narrative, includes tales, fables, and parables
What is a short story?
500
The repetition of sounds or letters in a group of words. "Walking in a winter wonderland"
What is Alliteration?
500
a continuous, uninterrupted speech delivered by one character to other characters; may be oral or written
What is a Monologue?
500
A word whose sound suggests it's sense or meaning. "Hiss, Clang, Splash, Buzz, Hum"