Adjectives
This adjective means appropriately or in a proper manner.
What is duly?
If you move by leaping, you are doing this.
This noun is a genre of fictional stories, a literary movement, and also a generic word for “story” in “The Open Window.”
What is Romance?
This noun is what we call a tense moment in the story where the problem could possibly be solved, but then that possibility is foiled.
What is rising action?
We use this term to describe the foundational parts of a story, namely the plot, conflict, character, setting, point of view, and theme.
What are literary elements?
This adjective means in contradiction of moral or legal standards
What is unduly?
Whether verbally, with inferences, or with expressions, if you communicate an idea you do this.
What is to convey?
This word is the name of a phrase that contains a noun that describes another noun, thereby functioning as an adjective!
What is an appositive phrase?
This adjective means "enough."
What is sufficient?
We use this term to talk about all the techniques, styles, and strategies an author uses to enhance their writing.
What are literary devices?
When something is happening soon, about to take place, we use this adjective to describe it.
What is imminent?
If you are trying, you are doing this.
What is to endeavor?
We use this noun when we talk about the ending of a story where the conflict has been resolved.
This adverb means to do something in a way that shows hesitation.
What is falteringly?
We use this term to talk about the time and place of a story.
What is setting?
This adjective means terrifyingly horrible to the senses.
What is ghastly?
If you to minimize the importance of something, you are doing this.
What is to discount?
This French word is a noun that means the way the strands of a story are brought together at the end of the story, where the situation is explained.
What is denouement?
These two words mean calm, confident, and in control of your feelings.
What is self-possessed?
We use this term when we are talking about the message an author wants us to understand about a topic in the story.
What is theme?
We use this adjective to mean dangerous, but it also carries the meaning of disloyal.
What is treacherous?
This verb can mean to overwhelm or to flow over and enclose.
What is to engulf?
In this part of a story, we are introduced to the setting, the character(s), and the external conflict.
What is the exposition?
This word means the person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
This academic vocabulary means the narrator's position in relation to a story being told.
What is point of view?