Fiction Terms
Dominating idea in a work
What is Theme
What happened when someone won the lottery?
Who wrote A Tell Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Who fought off snakes?
Rikki Tikki Tavi
Slyly indicating a future event, is one technique a writer can use to create and build suspense.
Foreshadowing
The tension and anticipation that develops in the audience with regard to the plot, usually focusing on what will happen to the main character.
What is Susupense
Why did the man kill the old man in Tell-Tale heart?
He did not like his Vulture eye
Who primarily wrote children's books?
Who pretended to have heart problems and asked for a cool glass of water?
Mr. Cyril Boggis
The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience in the reader.
Imagery
The main character - whether hero or anti-hero - of any give text
What is the protagonist
What was a possible diagnosis for the woman in the bedroom with the yellow wallpaper?
Post Partum Depression
Who wrote the story which became a landmark for feminist literature and horror?
Charlotte Gilman Perkins
What kind of problems did Mrs. Mallard have?
Heart problems
literary device that hinges on opposites: what things are on the surface, and what they end up actually being.
Irony
In a narrative work, events that are constructed so that early events will suggest later events in the development of the plot
What is foreshadowing
What is the overall theme of The Lottery?
Man vs man
Man vs Tradition
Who was the American author of short stories based out of Louisiana and a forerunner for feminist writers.
Kate Chopin
In what story does the protagonist tell on himself without needing to?
The Tell-Tale Heart
Assigning human attributes to a non-human entity or inanimate object in an effort to express a point or idea in a more colorful, imaginative way.
Personification
A figure of speech in which the implied meaning od something differs from the literal meaning, such as a sarcastic remark.
What is Verbal Irony
What caused the man to confess to killing the old man in Edgar Allan Poe's story?
He could still hear the heart beat and thought the policemen could too.
Rudyard Kipling
What happened to the priceless commode in Parson's Pleasure?
The farmers chopped off the legs.
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Allusion