Writer's Toolbox
This literary device gives hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This story's theme shows differences in perspectives o heritage and money.
What is "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker?
This story, which frequently refers to different kinds of passwords, features second-person narration, inviting the reader into the story with frequent references to "you."
What is "Slide to Unlock"?
This author of "Young Goodman Brown" had ancestors who were judges during the Salem witch trials.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
A word used to describe various types of literature.
What is genre?
A sudden discovery or moment of insight or understanding.
What is an epiphany?
This newly widowed character in "The Story of an Hour" dies of "the joy that kills"
Who is Mrs. Mallard?
This type of narration, used by Mama in "Everyday Use," features the use of "I" or "me."
What is first person?
These two authors set their works in Harlem.
Who are James Baldwin and Langston Hughes?
A longer work of fiction.
What is a novel?
This literary device is used over and over again by Ed Park in "Slide to Unlock."
What is repetition?
In "Oliver in Progress," this teacher is a flat character who fails to support him and excuses his bullies' behavior
Who is Mrs. Lawson?
This story features a narrator without a name.
What is "Sonny's Blues"?
This author decided against changing her own name to Wangero.
Who is Alice Walker?
The Langston Hughes poem that begins with the line "What happens to a dream deferred?"
What is "Harlem"?
We see the use of this type of one-to-one symbolism in Faith in "Young Goodman Brown."
What is allegory?
This element typically involves exposition, climax, denouement and resolution.
What is Plot?
This narrator of "The Moth Man" communicates primarily through his writing.
This famous mythologist wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Who is Joseph Campbell?
This character was married to his Faith.
Who is Young Goodman Brown?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The time and place in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
"The Story of an Hour," "Oliver in Progress," and "Young Goodman Brown" all have this type of narration.
What is third-person (limited)?
Eudora Welty, who was a photographer as well as a writer, wrote this story about Phoenix Jackson, who takes a difficult journey to help her grandson.
What is "A Worn Path"?
The scarred sister who knows how to quilt in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use."
Who is Maggie?