Style
Drama
Drama II
Randomness
Randomness II
100
The special way an author uses language: plain, complex, ornate, simple, poetic, conversational, formal, informal.
What is style?
100
A play that presents serious and important actions that end unhappily for the main character.
What is tragedy?
100
Conversations between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
100
The dictionary defintion of a word.
What is denotation?
100
An indirect reference to something from the Bible, other literature, mythology, history, etc.
What is allusion?
200
Comparisons that are not literally true.
What is figure of speech?
200
A likeable character who has a personal failing tha tleads to his or her downfall.
What is tragic hero?
200
A long speech made by one character to one or more other characters on stage.
What is monologue?
200
A source that comes directly from what is being researched: autobiography, pictures, journal entries, etc.
What is primary source?
200
What makes something happen and the result of what happens.
What is cause and effect?
300
The attitude of the author towards an audience, subject or character.
What is tone?
300
The problem that leads to a character's personal downfall.
What is tragic flaw?
300
A speech made by a character who is alone onstage, speaking to himself or to the audience.
What is soliloqy?
300
All the ideas that we, and others, associate with a word.
What is connotation?
300
To make a careful guess about something.
What is inference?
400
The feeling that a work gives the reader.
What is mood?
400
A play that ends happily.
What is comedy?
400
A short speech delivered to the audience that the other characters are not supposed to hear.
What is aside?
400
A source that does not directly come from the topic being researched: biography, articles, internet cites, research paper, etc.
What is secondary source?
400
A narrator who is not credible because they are either too inexperienced, not sane, or influenced in some other way.
What is unreliable?
500
Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery?
500
A character who contrasts dramatically with another character and serves to highlight the qualities he or she is contrasted with.
What is character foil?
500
Words that are no longer commonly used.
What is archaic words?
500
The use of repeated words, word parts, or phrases.
What is repetiton?
500
To look at ways two or more works of literature are the same and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
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