Literature
Who is the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
John Boyne
Giving credit to the original source of information.
Cite
What does the prefix anti mean?
Against
Photographs, journals, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and oral histories are examples of _________ sources?
What is primary?
What does the color white typically represent when used as a symbol in literature
Innocence
The main character in a story; the person driving the story
Protagonist
The last sentence of an introduction that tells the reader what the subject of you essay is about
What literary device is an over exaggeration?
Hyperbole
Rewriting essential information and ideas in the writer’s own words
Paraphrasing
A character that changes throughout the story and learns a lesson
dynamic
The struggle between opposing forces in a plot; problem in the story
Conflict
Anything that can be used to prove something; pulled from a text to support your claims
Evidence
A figure of speech in which something that is not human is given human qualities
Personification
To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own; without crediting the source
plagiarism
The use of language to create sensory impressions
Imagery
A long narrative poem, usually about the great deeds of a folk hero, stated in lofty, elevated language
Example: The Odyssey by Homer.
Epic
A story passed on by word of mouth rather than by writing, and thus partly modified by successive retelling before being written down or recorded with the subject of gods or goddesses
Mythology
A punctuation mark used to show division in a sentence. The sentence has two independent clauses and it is used to join those parts together to link the ideas
Semi-Colon
Sources that are written by respected authors, written recently, and facts that can be checked for specific accuracy
Credible Sources
When the reader learns about a character's traits through their actions or what other characters say about them
Indirect Characterization
A brief tale in verse or prose that conveys a moral lesson, usually by giving human speech and manners to animals and inanimate things
Fable
What type of poetry has no rules and can be written in any format?
Free verse
A FIGURE of SPEECH that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object
Example: Making foolish decisions can open a Pandora’s Box.
Textbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and newspaper editorials are examples of ____________ sources.
What is secondary?
The first portion of the plot within a literary text.