Literary Terms
Various Genres
Texts
Essay + Grammatik
Grammatik
100
A central character in a story.
What is a protagonist?
100
It is in between a short story and a novel.
What is a novella?
100
He is highly unreliable, young, and his parents are supposedly 'touchy'.
Who is Holden Caulfield from the novel The Catcher in the Rye?
100
It is the very first thing in a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
100
'Nobody are in the classroom'.
Hvad er en kongruensfejl?
200
A person who tells the story and has access to inner thoughts of the characters in a story.
What is an omniscient narrator?
200
It is 'supposedly' objective and has the purpose of informing the reader.
What is a newspaper article?
200
The person said this: 'There is no experience you've had that you were not at the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is right there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV, or your monitor, or whatever.'
Who is David Foster Wallace? (The speech 'This Is Water'.)
200
Sentence such as the following in an essay would be called: Uhhm, it's like, you know, so cool, the stuff and the thing, man.
What is informal language use?
200
'The news are on at six.'
Hvad er en kongruensfejl?
300
A story has usually a beginning, middle, and end. And the story can also have a minor story within the bigger narrative.
What is a plot and a subplot?
300
A good speech has to have different rhetoric modes, which can be traced back to Aristotle.
What is logos, ethos, and pathos?
300
This marginalized group does not speak in the story.
Who are the Indians/Native Americans in 'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway?
300
He this, he that, he goes, he stays, he cries.
Hvad er et manglende punktum eller konjunktion?
300
'There is many questions.'
Hvad er en kongruensfejl?
400
The story can have a chronological order, but it can also go back in time or the opposite.
What is a flashback and/or flash forward?
400
It is performed on a stage and contains stage directions.
What is a drama?
400
The person writes in a non-standard English language on purpose.
Who is John Agard? (The poem 'Listen Mr Oxford Don'.)
400
'The boys toy is childish.'
Hvad er en genitivfejl?
400
'Michael, one of my fraternity brothers, play Ultimate Frisbee daily.'
Hvad er en kongruensfejl?
500
It is the person or thing that the protagonist struggles with.
What is an antagonist?
500
It is either an added sound or a natural sound in a film.
What is a diegetic or non-diegetic sound?
500
They discuss 'the subjunctive mood' in relation to history.
What is The History Boys?
500
'She spoke fluent.'
Hvad er forkert brug af adverbium/adjektiv?
500
'The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.'
What is syntax?
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