This type of short story is defined as a story within a story. Characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities. Characters and places often have names that indicate the abstract ideas they stand for. Example - Mean Merry or Mean Mollie.
What is an allegory.
100
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using a connective word such as like or as. There are four types, direct, implied, extended, and mixed.
What is a metaphor
100
When a writier tells us directly what the character's personality is like.
What is direct characterization.
100
One of the characters is actually the narrator telling the story, using the pronoun I.
What is first person
100
Person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and for something beyond itself.
What is symbols
200
This type of writing ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to reveal a weakness or to bring about social reform. Absurdity and Exaggeration are among the favorite techniques of these type of writers. Example - Eating Irish babies!
What is satire
200
"Everest deals with trespassers harshly". This sentence is an example of _______.
What is personification
200
The difference between what is being said and what is actually meant by a character.
What is verbal irony
200
The character struggles with an outside force.
What is external conflict
200
Language that appeals to the senses; ALL five of them.
What is Imagery
300
This type of writing usually takes place in the future but is inspired by the past. It is a cautionary tale! Example - Ray Bradbury is this type of writer!
What is science fiction
300
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Example - Jumbo Shrimp, Awfully Pretty, Horribly Good.
What is an oxymoron
300
The difference between what is expected or appropriate and what actually happens.
What is situational irony
300
The narrator plays no part in the story. We observe the action through the eyes and with the feelings of one character.
What is third person limited.
300
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot. Used to build suspense!
What is foreshadowing
400
A type of story coming down from the past; especially one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable. (This is not in your handout. Use your resources!)
What is a legend
400
A statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth. Example - "Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink".
What is a paradox
400
The writer makes us use our own judgement to decide what a character is like based on the evidence the writer gives us.
What is Indirect Characterization
400
The characters' struggles take place entirely within a characters own mind.
What is internal conflict
400
The way we feel as we read.
What is mood
500
_____ is a characteristically anonymous, timeless, and placeless story circulated orally among a people
What is a Folktale
500
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, an event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts.
What is an Allusion
500
The difference between what a character or characters know and the audience knows.
What is dramatic irony.
500
All knowing narrator can tell us about the past, the present, and the future of all the characters. He or she can tell us what the characters are thinking as well as what is happening in other places.
What is Omniscient
500
Central idea of a work of literature. NOT the same as a subject.