Basics
Essentials
Detailed
Examples
Honors/AP
100
The beginning of a work, which supplies the reader with all of the basic information needed to comprehend the story.
What is THE EXPOSITION?
100
The ideas that are implied by a word.
What is connotation?
100
A word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word.
What is an anagram?
100
Two households, both alike in dignity, A In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, B From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, A Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. B From forth the fatal loins of these two foes C A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; D Whose misadventured piteous overthrows C Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. D The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, E And the continuance of their parents' rage, F Which, but their children's end, naught could remove, E Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; F The which if you with patient ears attend, G What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. G
What is a sonnet?
100
The giving of human characteristics or qualities to objects or non-human things.
What is anthropomorphism?
200
A figure of speech in which non-human things are given human characteristics
What is personification?
200
When characters break from the action to speak directly to the audience
What is an aside?
200
When the actor or actress speaks in such a way that the audience is the only group supposed to hear. This usually reveals something about the character or plot that other characters do not yet know.
What is ASIDE!
200
A story fabricated as an attempt to explain how the world came to be, or why something exists.
What is a Myth?
200
A story, often humorous and based in the teller’s experience, used to convey a moral or concept.
What is an Anecdote?
300
A figure of speech referencing some other well known piece of art/literature/etc.
What is an Allusion?
300
Speech between characters in a work of literature.
What is Dialogue?
300
A device where a character speaks their thoughts out loud. Not a bluetooth headset.
What is a Soliloquy?
300
She sells sea-shells by the sea-shore
What is alliteration?
300
A repetition of vowel sounds in a sentence or phrase ex: Men sell the wedding bells
What is assonance?
400
When the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not
What is dramatic irony?
400
When a specific word or object is used to represent another object in a story
What is a symbol?
400
*BANG* *THWACK* *BOOM* *KAPOW*
What is Onomatopoeia!!!!
400
A short poem with ridicule, sarcasm, and wit, But is it?
What is an Epigram?
400
Adding to a sentence; beefing up the sentence to increase its worth.
What is Amplification!!
500
The character who usually introduces or plays a major role in the conflict of the plot
What is Antagonist?
500
Giving clues as to future events; signs of what is yet to come.
What is Foreshadowing!
500
Someone who give their own interpretation of the story. This type of action tends to alter the audience’s opinion of the conclusion
What is an unreliable narrator?
500
“Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard.” --from a tale of Paul Bunyan
What is hyperbole?
500
A figure of speech containing two phrases that are parallel to each other, yet inverted.
What is chiasmus?
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