Craft of Fiction
The term for the emotional high point of a story is...
What is a climax?
The five senses that a writer can use to evoke rich sensory description are...
What are taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing?
What can an adverb be replaced with in a work of fiction or poetry?
What is a specific (or stronger) verb.
How many different genres of creative writing did we look at over the course of the semester?
What is 3?
The term for the event that kicks off the action and establishes the conflict for the rest of the story is...
What is the inciting incident?
A sonnet has how many lines?
What is 14?
The difference between a simile and a metaphor is...
What is: "A simile uses like or as; a metaphor does not."
We read and discussed a short story this semester that takes place on the planet Venus. The author of that story is Ray Bradbury, and the title of that story is "All _________ in a Day."
What is summer?
A round character is...
What is, a character who is complex, authentic, and/or human-seeming.
An aubade is a mode of poetry in which the speaker laments...
What is the rising of the sun (or leaving of a lover)?
True or false: When using a dialogue tag after a line of dialogue, the comma should be placed INSIDE the quotation marks, not outside of them.
What is true?
The name of the author who wrote the essay called "Goodbye to All That," in which the author explores a time in her life when she lived in New York City and her complicated feelings about it, is...
There are FOUR different basic points of view a writer can use in a story or novel. They are...
What are: first person, second person, third person omniscient, and limited omniscient.
One reason you might break a line is...
Diction is word choice. Syntax is...
What is: The way you arrange your sentences.
We read and discussed a short story this semester that used a very unusual point of view. Either give us the title of the story OR name that specific point of view.
What is: "Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters (Because They Are Terrifying") OR "first person plural point of view."
"Psychic distance" is a term we use to describe...
What is, how close the reader feels to the protagonist's perspective, thoughts, feelings, or point of view.
The pattern of iambic pentameter can be described as...(how many syllables and what kind of rhythm?)
What is: 10 syllables in a repeated pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables.
Give us one example of a concrete word and one example of an abstract word.
What are...(We'll evaluate this on the spot; there are lots of answers!)
We read and discussed a poem by Kevin Young about the Midwest. What MODE or TYPE of poem was it?
What is an ode?