Story Structures
This is the time and location a piece of literature is based in.
What is setting?
These are the two basic types of characterization in literature.
What are direct and indirect characterization?
These are the two basic types of conflict in literature.
What is internal and external conflict?
This compares two unlike things by using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
"I wanted to tell my mother, my father, and my brother about my promotion" is an example of this type of sentence structure.
What is parallelism?
This is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This is a theme that exists across all cultures and times.
What is a universal theme?
This involves two or more forces in opposition with one another.
What is conflict?
Describing the Miller of The Canterbury Tales as stout and red-headed is an example of this kind of characterization.
What is direct characterization?
The feud between Snowball and Napoleon is an example of this type of conflict.
What is man versus man?
This device gives human traits to nonhumans.
What is personification?
This is the kind of sentence in which a subject does not perform an action, but has an action done upon them.
What is a passive sentence?
This is the action of a sentence; it tells readers what occurs.
What is a verb?
This kind of narrative structure has a general story and several short, loosely related stories within it.
What is a framework text?
This is the representation of the traits, motives, and psychology of a character in a narrative.
What is characterization?
Reading a character's thoughts is an example of this kind of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
Gregor wrestling with his sense of humanity is this kind of conflict.
What is man versus self?
This is extreme exaggeration for humorous effect.
What is hyperbole?
This structural error occurs when a descriptive phrase is not placed next to the phrase it is altering.
What is a misplaced modifier?
This modifies or describes an action or tells frequency or amount.
What is an adverb?
This is the number of lines in a sonnet.
What is 14?
This is a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
What is theme?
Boxer's saying "I will work harder!" is an example of this kind of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
The main source of conflict within the Wife of Bath's tale.
What is man versus supernatural?
This poetic device uses intentionally repeated beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
This occurs when two independent clauses are separated by a comma without a coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
There are only three of these in the English language.
What are articles?
This tells the rhythm of a poem and is often marked by syllabic count through feet.
What is meter?
This is the highest point of tension in a story.
What is climax?
These kinds of characters are rarely main characters because they are often stereotypes or caricatures of real people.
What are flat characters?
Old Major's fight against dictatorship and subjugation is an example of this type of conflict.
What is man versus society?
"A Modest Proposal" is an extended example of this kind of device.
What is satire?
Visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory are all types of this literary device.
What is imagery?
This tells place, time, direction, or purpose in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
This is any sort of art, media, or literature that promotes a political viewpoint.
What is propaganda?