Unit 1:
Short Story
Short Story
This is when an author tells you about a character's personality outright.
What is direct characterization?
This is a comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as.
What is metaphor?
This type of poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.
What is lyric poetry?
Rather than parts and chapters like novels, plays are broken up into these.
What are acts and scenes?
These are two of the types of external conflict.
What are person vs: nature, person, supernatural, society?
A sentence like this, "for me, every visit [to the library] was an astonishment " is this type of appeal.
What is appeal to emotion?
Instead of paragraphs, poetry is broken up into these.
What are stanzas?
In a play, the character's spoken words are called this.
What is dialogue?
When an author fleshes out a character's personality through thoughts, actions, physical description, and the speech of other characters.
What is indirect characterization?
This is the author's unique way of writing. It is made up of diction, tone, and syntax.
What is style?
This is language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
This is a brief remark to the audience, unheard by other characters.
What is aside?
When the main conflict in a story is a person struggling inside herself over a choice she has to make or a way she needs to grow.
What is internal conflict?
This kind of essay explains a process or presents information.
What is expository?
"The wind moaned as it beat against the trees" is an example of this type of imaginative comparison.
What is personification?
Pre-planned destiny over which the hero has little or no control.
What is fate?
Anything that stands for something else in addition to having its own meaning.
What is a symbol?
This is one of the organizational structures commonly used in nonfiction writing.
What is chronological, compare-and-contrast, cause-and-effect, or order of importance?
This 14 line poem is always written in iambic pentameter and comes in two types, English and Italian.
What is a sonnet?
A plot, character, image, setting, or theme that appears in literature, mythology, and folklore from around the world.
What is archetype?