LITERARY TERMS
SAY WHAT?
VOCABULARY
101
THE PLOT THICKENS
GIVE ME A NAME!
100
Exaggeration to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
100
Narrator who is not a character in the story, but who knows all the characters' thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc.
Who is the 3rd person limited narrator?
100
Conflict that a character feels outside of him/herself.
What is external conflict?
100
The belief that people can attain wealth and person ambitions if they really try.
What is The American Dream?
100
Reason Uncle Basil chose to keep his fortune from the rest of his family.
What is his family was spoiled and greedy?
200
Point of greatest excitement/turning point in a plot where the conflict is addressed.
What is climax?
200
When an author directly tells what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
200
When what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
What is verbal irony?
200
Details provided to give the reader a sense of who a character really is.
What is characterization?
200
Surprise ending of "The Princess and the Tin Box".
What is the princess selects the box with the most jewels?
300
Beginning of a story where the setting and background are revealed.
What is the exposition?
300
Narrator who tells the story from the first person, and uses pronouns "me", "my", and "I".
What is 1st person narration?
300
When the reader expects one thing to happen but another thing happens.
What is situational irony?
300
References to specific historical events, people, and things that make a story more believable.
What are allusions?
300
Example of irony in "The Lottery".
What is the "winner" is stoned to death?
400
Excitement in a basic story plot -- events leading up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
400
An author indirectly reveals what a character is like through dialogue, actions, feelings, etc.
What is indirect characterization?
400
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
400
Genre of literature that focuses on portraying life as it actually is -- characters are regular people.
What is realism?
400
The motivation of townspeople to continue "The Lottery".
What is supersition and power over the people?
500
Problem in a plot.
What is the conflict?
500
Narrator who is not a character in the story, but who knows ONE of the character's thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc.
Who is a 3rd person limited narrator?
500
Characters who neatly fit into a stereotype.
What are stock characters?
500
A plot that begins and ends in the same place -- the characters & setting have not changed.
What is circular plot?
500
Name the four parts of a well-constructed paragraph.
What is P.E.A.T.? (Position - Evidence - Analysis - Transition?)
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