Setting and Character
Plot
Symbol and Irony
Point of View and Tone Mood Atmosphere
Theme Statements and Miscellaneous
100
When an author reveals the qualities and traits to the author openly.
What is direct presentation of character?
100
The main character in a story?
What is the protagonist?
100
Pay attention to these three things if you want to recognize a symbol in literature.
What are frequency, detail, and position?
100
The "I" point of view.
What is First Person Point of View?
100
Terms like "all" "every" "always" which are words that should be avoided when writing theme statements.
What are absolutes?
200
The first level of setting. This level has the most immediate and earliest influences and includes the family, along with local friendship and peer groups, and neighbourhood or community institutions such as a particular school or church.
What is Micro Setting?
200
A position in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable.
What is a dilemma?
200
A unique or original symbol an author creates within an individual work.
What is a contextual symbol?
200
Point of View: At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse, and she was feeling at ease. At noon time, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.
What is omniscient point of view.
200
What's wrong with the the theme statement, "The theme of _________________ is "You can't judge a book by its cover
What is, "It's a cliche." UGH!!!!!!
300
The four kinds of time that the may influence the events in a story?
What are clock time, calendar time, seasonal time and historical time?
300
The quality in a story that makes the reader ask, "What's going to happen next?"
What is suspense?
300
Type of Irony: In There's Something About Mary (1998), [when] Ted thinks he's been arrested for picking up a hitchhiker while the audience knows he's being questioned by police about a murder, otherwise innocuous lines he delivers, such as 'I've done it several times before' and 'It's no big deal,' generate laughter.
What is Dramatic Irony?
300
This word describes the wide array of positive and negative associations attributed to most words. Paying attention to this can help you determine the mood of a piece.
What is the connotation?
300
The term for an unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation.
What is mystery?
400
The name for a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight the particular qualities of the other character.
What is a foil?
400
The four kinds of conflict (not man vs man etc.)
What are physical, social, mental, moral conflict?
400
Type of Irony: In 1981, while standing next to his car, President Ronald Regan was hit in the chest by a bullet fired by John Hinkley Jr. In fact, Hinkley's bullet completely missed President Reagan, but then ricocheted off the car's bulletproof window, and struck President Reagan in the chest.
What is situational irony?
400
Point of View: At the pizza place, Tony the baker was getting the pizzas ready for baking. He flattened out a ball of dough into a large pancake and tossed it in the air. He spread tomato sauce on it, sprinkled it with cheese, and shoved it in the oven. Then the telephone rang. “A fellow from the factory wants a large pizza delivered in a hurry,” Tony’s wife called. “OK, I’ll get my coat,” said Tony.
What is objective point of view?
400
The difference between a round character and a dynamic character.
Characters are dynamic when they undergo some kind of fundamental change to their thinking or character as a result of the events of the story. The terms "round" and "flat" deal with the complexity of the character.
500
The super six clues to understanding characters.
What are characters' actions, characters' language, characters' thoughts, characters' body language, characters' physical description, and how others relate to characters?
500
When an author gives his story a turn unjustified by the situation or the characters involved, he/she is guilty of this/
What is plot manipulation?
500
Four Types of Symbolism you need to be aware of include,
What are Name Symbolism, Object Symbolism, Action Symbolism, People Symbolism?
500
The four main points of view, with a short explanation of each. (not second person)
Answers will vary.
500
Theme Statements tend to address or comment upon one of these three subjects.
What are human motivation, human condition, or human ambition.
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