Key Story Terms
The lesson or message of the story.
What is theme?
We use this in research papers to back up our arguments with examples and statistics.
What are sources?
Language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
A story about a man so in love with a girl that he buys a mansion across the bay and throws huge parties hoping that she will stop by.
What is The Great Gatsby?
The proper way to format titles of a novel when typing.
What is italicize?
The sequence of events that make up the story of a novel, movie, or play.
What is plot?
This is used to test sources from Google to determine whether or not they are credible.
What is the CRAAP Test
Compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
A Shakespeare play about a man who is prophesied to become king. He kills the current king to make it happen, but goes crazy and makes a lot of enemies who make sure he isn't king very long.
What is Macbeth?
Combing two independent clauses without using any punctuation. Not good!
What is a run-on sentence?
Every good story needs this to make it interesting. This is established in the exposition of the story.
What is conflict?
This is used to find scholarly sources.
What is Badgerlink?
Compares two things by saying one thing is another thing.
A play written by Lorraine Hansberry about a black family in the 1950s who argue about how to use a life insurance check for $10,000.
What is A Raisin in the Sun
These numbers should always be spelled out instead of using numerals.
What are numbers one through nine?
A thing that represents or stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
These two components are needed in proper in-text citations.
What are the author's last name and page number?
Describing something that is not human by giving it human qualities.
What is personification?
A play about two star-crossed lovers who fall in love at first sight, get married, and kill themselves all in the span of a week.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Combining two independent clauses with only a comma. Not good!
What is a comma splice?
When we know something that the characters in the story do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Proper works cited pages should be/use these three things.
What are alphabetized, double spaced, and use hanging indents.
A reference to something famous and assuming everyone gets the reference.
What is an allusion?
A story about two friends in the 1930s working on ranches to make enough money to buy their own dream farm, only to end in tragedy.
What is Of Mice and Men?
The action that the subject of the sentence is doing.
What is the predicate?
1/2 Credit: What is a verb?