Short Story Literary Terms
Attitude the author expresses of his/her topic
What is the tone?
Who is depicted as a "foolish horse" in Animal Farm?
Who is Mollie?
Small hill or mount
What is a knoll?
Pattern of sound that includes the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.
What is The Story for an Hour?
Person who tells the story
What is the narrator?
What happened to the milk and apples?
The pigs eat them as brain food.
A short, unadorned prose fiction that teaches a moral lesson.
What is fable?
A sudden moment of realization in a story or play.
What is an epiphany?
The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling ofliberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before theybroke into boisterous2play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books andreprimands.
What is the Lottery?
A thing that suggests more than its literal meaning.
Examples: Stop Sign, Statue of Liberty
What is a symbol?
What happened to Boxer?
Boxer was sent to the knacker.
An imitation of the style of a particular genre, artist, or writer with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect
What is a parody?
A hint that is fully understood only in retrospect after the reader discovers more information later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
Rainsford sprang up and moved quickly to the rail, mystified. He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come, but it was like trying to see through a blanket. He leaped upon the rail and balanced himself there, to get greater elevation; his pipe, striking a rope, was knocked from his mouth.
What is The Most Dangerous Game?
A character in a story who deceives frustrates, or works against the main character, or protagonist, in some way.
What is an antagonist?
Who died in Chapter Two?
Who was Old Major?
Engrave or write as a lasting record on material or item.
What is inscribe?
Use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices
What is satire?
No gunshots were heard the night or morning she was found, although one neighbor reported hearing a single shot two days earlier. Police interviewed three suspects in the case...
What is The Mysterious Death of Mrs. Huffington?
A narrative that serves as an extended metaphor
What is an allegory?
Who was depicted as the religious/spiritual guide in Animal Farm?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
What is propaganda?
Usage of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
What is hyperbole?
"What are you crying for?" asked Daddy, but I couldn't answer. They didn't know that I did it just for myself, that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.
What is The Scarlet Ibis?