Lit Terms
The general time and place in which all the action unfolds.
What is General Setting?
A verb form, usually preceded by "to," that can be used as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
What is an Infinitive?
The person who tells a story.
Who is the Narrator?
A verb form that can be used as an adjective.
What is the Participle?
"The musician is she" is an example of what kind of noun/pronoun?
What is a Predicate Nominative?
Judging other cultures based on European valued; thinking European culture is superior to all others.
What is Eurocentrism?
(Who/Whom) Julia kissed on the cheek is a secret.
What is Whom?
The times and places in which individual episodes or scenes take place.
What is Specific Setting?
"We met at the lake to fish" is an example of what kind of phrase?
What is an Infinitive Phrase?
Speech specific to a geographic region.
What is Vernacular or Dialect?
Society's unquestioned judgments about what ought to be right and wrong.
What is Normativity?
A prepositional phrase is used as this to tell when, where, how, how much, or how far.
What is an Adverb Phrase?
A movement that implied that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
What is Naturalism?
This is now, that was (then, than).
What is "then"?
What is an Adverb Phrase?
A device, image, character, portrayal, plot line, or other phenomenon that appears again and again in literature.
What is a Trope?
"The light in the kitchen is on" is an example of what kind of phrase?
What is an Adjective Phrase?
An episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.
What is Picaresque?
A noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and explains or identifies the subject of the sentence.
What is a Predicate Nominative?
Only knows events relating to one character.
What is Limited Narrator?
Composition in verse or prose presenting an idealized story of happy innocence.
What is Idyll?
There was complete disagreement (between/among) Max and Chance.
What is "between"? "Between" is used when naming distinct, individual items (can be two, three, or more) and "among" is used when the items are part of a group, or not specifically named (three or more).
Fiction or poetry which focuses on specific features, such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape of a particular region; local color.
What is Regionalism?
"Jim works harder than his brother."
"Everyone in the race ran fast, but John ran fastest of all."
The letters in bold are examples of what (in order)?
What are Comparative and Superlative Adverbs?
"She has corrected her homework" is an example of what kind of verb form?
What is the Participle?