Characters/POV
Setting/Plot
Reading Strategies
Literary Devices
Miscellaneous
100
1st person POV is reliable. (True or False)
What is False?
100
Scenery and initial thoughts set the ____. Referred to as the atmosphere of a literary piece.
What is mood?
100
Putting a text into simple term, getting right to the point, is called _________.
What is summarizing?
100
A literary comparison using “like” or “as” is a _____.
What is simile?
100
What is Mr. Finn's first name?
Who is Jeff?
200
The main character in a story is usually the _____. (Hint: Iago was this in "Othello")
What is the protagonist?
200
The cut scene to show a memory or what happened to the character as a child. A transition in a story to an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
200
Something that stands for or represents something greater is called a _________ element.
What is symbolic?
200
A cop getting pulled over by another cop is a form of what type of irony?
What is Situation Irony?
200
Credibility and audience appropriateness shows _______. _______ connects on the emotional side, evokes sympathy. Based on logic and facts? ______.
What is Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
300
Usually the bad guy in a story, this character is usually part of the conflict.
What is the antagonist?
300
"The way I'd shoot him, he wouldn't feel nothing. I'd put the gun right there." He pointed with his toe. "Right back of the head. He wouldn't even quiver". (Carlson about Candy's dog). This _________ Lennie's death.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Authors show something is important how?
What is too much attention, repetition, surprise, and position?
300
The statement "I have a million things to do" is an example of what type of figurative language that uses extreme exaggeration?
What is Hyperbole?
300
Who said "Cassio, my lord! No, sure I cannot think it, That he would steal away so guilty-like, seeing you coming".
Who is Iago?
400
Name the five ways to show indirect characterization.
What is actions, reactions, appearance, dialogue, and thoughts?
400
What kind of tone would be used in a paper to talk about poverty or homelessness?
What is formal, sad, or serious tone?
400
Guessing and trusting our interpretive hunches is ________.
What is Hypothesizing?
400
When the audience knows or understands a situation that the character doesn't it's called ____.
What is dramatic irony?
400
A statement the writer makes and intends on supporting is called the ______.
What is thesis?
500
The all-knowing narrator, who tells the story with "he, she, or they" to show what the character is doing or feeling is called __________.
What is 3rd person POV?
500
A man wants to go to the job interview but he's afraid of being rejected. What kind of conflict is this?
What is character vs. self?
500
Critical commentary or explanatory notes that helps the reader understand the story is called a(n) __________.
What is an annotation?
500
The repetition of sounds or vowels in a story are ______.
What is alliteration?
500
In the movie "Serenity", the operative feels the need to rid people of sin. Pax was created to keep peace among residents of Miranda. These could tie into the theme of ______.
What is control?
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