Define Time
An interruption in the main events of the story to tell about an earlier time
What is flashback?
These are the three essential elements of any story (you must name all three)
What are character, setting, and plot?
The Children's Homer takes place in Ancient Greece. This is the story's ____________
What is setting?
Detectives in Togas is a story about how the Xanthos boys work together to solve the mystery of an attack on their teacher and the vandalism of a sacred temple.
This is an example of a _____________
What is a summary?
When a character in a play makes a speech alone, often revealing thoughts or plans to the audience. Antony makes one when he gives his true plans for revenge against the murders of Caesar.
What is a soliloquy?
What is foreshadowing?
The author's attitude toward the subject
What is tone?
The reader can tell that Claudia likes (has a crush on) Rufus, even though the author never directly says it. This is an example of ___________
What is an inference?
When Odysseus tells the story of his adventures to Alcinous, Arete, and the Phaeacians, it is an example of this literary element.
What is flashback?
A play on words, usually meant to be humorous
What is a pun?
A story that explains origins or customs in the world
What is a myth?
A long literary work usually featuring a hero with superhuman abilities on a great adventure
What is an epic poem?
The story of Glaucus and Scylla is an example of one of these
What is a myth?
The newspaper article on the wall of the Forum makes it seem like one of Caius's classmates is guilty of vandalism. It is accusatory and harsh. This is the article's __________
What is tone?
The opposite of what is expected
What is irony?
The dictionary definition of a word
What is the denotation?
Images and feelings connected to a word
What is the connotation?
When Theoclymenus, the soothsayer, leaves the house of Odysseus saying he sees ghosts and death in the hall, it is an example of this literary element.
What is foreshadowing?
The definition of hot chocolate is a warm drink made from chocolate. However, hot chocolate may make you think of staying warm and cozy on a chilly winter day. This is the ____________ of hot chocolate.
When Julius Caesar compares himself to Mount Olympus just before he is murdered, it is an example of this
What is irony?
What a reader learns about a character through the author's specific description
What is direct characterization?
What a reader infers about a character based on the character's thoughts, actions, behaviors, etc.
What is indirect characterization?
"His words came like snowflakes in winter."
This observation about Odysseus is an example of_______________
What is indirect characterization?
"He was a giant in size, and, what made him terrible to behold, he had but one eye, and that single eye was in his forehead."
This description of Polyphemus is an example of _____________
What is direct characterization?
Name the literary element in this example:
"I just finished the sequel to The Iliad; you really Odyssey it!"
What is a pun?