Definitions
Theme
Archetypes
Irony/Satire
Definitions x 2
100
Making something seem less serious than it is.
What is understatement?
100
Life lesson of a story.
What is theme?
100
True or false: Reverend Parris is an example of a temptress archetype.
What is false?
100
When an author uses speech, actions, and/or situations to bring an outcome the audience is not expecting.
What is irony?
100
When an object in literature stands for something larger and abstract.
What is symbolism?
200
The attitude the author has toward the subject he/she is writing about.
What is tone?
200
How many themes can be within a text?
What is multiple/unlimited?
200
This archetype long for beauty and perfection, can be obsessive, becomes consumed with the unattainable, is a non-conformist, and is brooding, dark, and dreamy.
What is romantic hero?
200
Is used to expose and criticize society’s foolishness and corruption.
What is satire?
200
Creates a picture in the reader’s mind, works to show--not tell, and appeals to any of the five sense.
What is imagery?
300
The feeling a word gives the reader.
What is connotation?
300
A story's theme must be...
What is universal?
300
Give an example of the Devil Figure and the Scapegoat in The Crucible.
Who is Judge Danforth? Who is Rebecca Nurse?
300
The Crucible is a reaction to...
What is McCarthyism and the HUAC trials of communists?
300
The author’s choice of words. It depends on topic, purpose, and occasion.
What is diction?
400
The feeling the reader has after reading a piece.
What is mood?
400
When a story’s theme can be interpreted more than one way it is
What is ambiguous theme?
400
This archetype is an animal, or more often a human, whose death in a public ceremony expiates some taint or sin of a community. They are often more powerful in death than in life.
What is the scapegoat?
400
What are the three types of irony + their definitions?
What is situational irony (situation turns out differently than expected)? What is dramatic irony (audience knows more than the characters)? What is verbal irony (saying one thing but meaning another)?
400
The life lesson of a story.
What is theme?
500
A reference in literature to something historical, mythological, biblical, other literature, pop culture, etc.
What is allusion?
500
What should you look at within a story to determine theme?
What is plot, characters, and setting?
500
They are in a leadership position, and they experience a “fall.”
What is the tragic hero?
500
Give an example of situational, dramatic, and verbal irony.
What is a traffic cop going to jail for unpaid parking tickets? (situational) What is when we know Juliet is not dead, but Romeo does not? (dramatic) What is saying to your friend while it is snowing in May: "Wow--what lovely weather we are having!"
500
An original model after which other things are similarly pattered.
What is archetype?
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