The genre that utilizes stage directions, set design, sound, props, dialogue and commentary to tell a story.
What is drama?
100
The point of view when a narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in a story.
What is third person omniscient?
100
Something concrete, such as an object, person, place, or happening, that stands for or represents something abstract such as an idea or a quality.
What is a symbol?
100
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
100
True or False: Literary analysis essays should have titles that are relevant to the topic but also creative and clever enough to generate interest in potential readers.
What is true?
200
The genre that deals with real people, things, events, places and facts.
What is nonfiction?
200
The main character/good person in the story the reader roots for.
What is the protagonist?
200
Interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
What is flashback?
200
What characters say in a story, drama, poem, etc. In stories, this is usually marked with "quotation marks."
What is dialogue?
200
When writing about a piece of literature in an analytical essay, authors should use the ________________ tense.
What is present?
300
In a piece of fiction the truth or insight is called a theme statement; in a piece of nonfiction, the insight the literature is trying to convey is called the _____________.
What is the purpose?
300
The point of view when an outside narrator knows only one character's thoughts and feelings.
What is third person limited?
300
Clues or hints which may predict or suggest some later event.
What is foreshadowing?
300
The one word/short phrase explanation of the subject, issue, concept, topic of a piece of literature.
What is thematic idea?
300
True or False: This is the proper was to cite textual evidence in a literary analysis essay: "Lennie dunked his whole head in the water." (Steinbeck page 14).
What is false?
400
The genre that most significantly utilizes figurative language and sound choices to convey effect.
What is poetry?
400
The point of view when a character in the story gives a first-hand account of events and uses "I" to refer to himself/herself.
What is first person?
400
The emotion or atmosphere a work of literature makes the reader feel or sense.
What is mood?
400
The vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
400
True or False: A transitional topic sentence, in order to be complete and effective, consists of just transitional language and a rewording/reference back to the thesis assertion.
What is false?
500
A nonfiction essay written in the present tense about a piece of literature that uses textual evidence citations to support the thesis is called a _____________________.
What is a literary analysis?
500
The point of view that uses "you."
What is second person?
500
The author's attitude or opinion toward his work/subject.
What is tone?
500
When what is expected to be said or to happen in a story doesn't happen, but the opposite does. EX: When the male sheriff and neighbor shake their heads at the "silly" wives and search for murder clues unsuccessfully when the wives are the ones who actually uncover clues.
What is irony?
500
Body section paragraphs should end with ___________________ sentences.