Authors
This author often writes children stories but he wrote this story about murder with a lamb chop!
Roald Dahl
Using your knowledge of prefixes, you easily identify this word as the character who opposes the main character.
antagonist
In Othello, the fact that the audience knows that Iago is setting up Othello is an example of this literary device.
dramatic irony
The alien invaders in "War of the Worlds" had this specific kind of gun.
heat ray
In "The War of the Worlds," and "Othello," this type of narration is used.
first person
This Greek (or was he African) wrote many fables.
Aesop
This type of story often has a king and a queen as well as elements of magic.
fairy tale
allusion
In "Night," the protagonist survives, but what other main character does not.
his father
In "Othello," this is Othello's wife. Things don't end well for her.
Desdemona
This man wrote the novel "War of the Worlds" in 1898.
H.G. Wells
This type of narration allows the reader to know the narrator's thoughts since she is talking about herself.
first person
This type of literature uses exaggeration to make fun of and make readers note a social or political situation.
satire
In "The Diary of a Young Girl," Anne is warned against starting a romantic relationship with him.
Peter
Rising action: Falling action as ________:antagonist
protagonist
Not to be confused with Ariel, this author of "The Little Mermaid" didn't have quite as happy a story to tell.
Hans Christian Andersen
This type of third person narrator knows everything that each character is thinking.
omniscient
The emotional association that a word evokes in a reader is known as this.
connotation
In "There Will Come Soft Rains," thee are no people but there are __________ houses.
smart
Anne insisted that people were truly kind even as she was being threatened for her faith. This is an example of A. foreshadowing, B. metaphor, C. paradox, D. Analogy
C
This author of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" used his own upbringing to describe the experiences of a Native American growing up in two worlds.
Sherman Alexie
Identify the elements of plot in order that they traditionally appear (5).
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
A nickname (like "the greatest teacher") is another name for this literary device.
epithet
These two brothers collected and compiled fairy tales.
Grimm
Which of these events is the climax of "The Ransom of Red Chief?:
A. The men kidnap the boy
B. The boy annoys the whole town
C. The men leave town
D. The men pay the boy's father to return him
D