Writing a Narrative
Where and when the story happens.
What is setting?
This phrase renames a noun in a sentence.
What is an appositive?
He set some to bind thatch, others to build houses. He made people work and was the best darn leader America ever had...before it was even America.
Who is John Smith?
This era focused on the truth found through imagination.
What is the Age of Romanticism?
The BIG IDEA of a text. Not what happens (the plot) or what it is about (topic).
What is the theme?
Using character's words in order to tell and enrich the story.
What is dialogue?
"After, Although, As, When, While, Until, Unless, Because, Before, If, Since" begin these clauses.
What are subordinate adverbial clauses, or awubis?
This was an agreement between 5 tribes that allowed women to choose the chief and suggested that the tribes sit beneath the great tree of peace to talk about things rather than wage war.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The wife's birthmark acts as this literary element in the short story of the same name.
What is symbolism?
A man waits for death by gangrene and searches for meaning in this Ernest Hemingway short story.
What is "The Snows of Killamanjaro"?
In the sample story during the climax of the narrative, the brothers risk their lives to regain their father's fishing pole while watching out for this foe.
What is an alligator?
Commas separate independent clauses when paired with these.
What are fanboys?
Kidnapped by the settlers and held for ransom which her father refused to pay, she was used as a token native in Europe to drum up business for the settlement.
Who is Pocahontas?
Something that is not as it should be or is not as it is expected. The spilled water in "A Mystery of Heroism," the dead wife in "The Californian's Tale"
What is irony?
When citizens walk away from Omelas, they have experienced a great feeling of relief, knowledge, and sadness
What is catharsis?
Details that help the reader understand the actors in a story.
What is characterization?
This verbal acts as an adjective
What is a participle?
He killed indigenous peoples and fed babies to dogs.
Who is Balboa?
A Focus on life as it really is, brought about by the invention of the camera and reflected in literature.
What is the age of Realism?
This is used to secure Emily's "man."
Starting a story in the middle of the action in Latin
What is 'en media res'?
This is made up of one independent clause and one dependant clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This poet used irony to attack the idea of slavery with the lines "T'was mercy brought me from my pagan land"
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
An offshoot of realism, this literary type has a focus on the accents, people, and places.
What is Regionalism?
The literary art of writing with specific details in order to give a truth-like feel to the piece.
What is verisimilitude?