Key Terms
Stories
Heroes
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Who wrote it?
100
It's the term for what is happening around a character or event in a story.
What is context?
100
A young boy awaits the dawn, nervous about the battle that dawn will bring.
What is The Drummer Boy of Shiloh?
100
His parents were killed.
Who is Batman/Bruce Wayne?
100
The main problem in a story.
What is conflict?
100
A Wrinkle in Time.
Who is Madeline L'engle?
200
Painting a picture in a reader's mind.
What is imagery?
200
IT is the villain.
What is A Wrinkle in Time?
200
Diana Prince
Who is Wonder Woman?
200
The feeling a reader gets from a story or poem.
What is mood?
200
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
300
The main character, or hero, in a story.
What is the protagonist?
300
A man and his crew battle a cyclops.
What is The Odyssey?
300
Superman and his girlfriend.
Who are Clark Kent and Lois Lane?
300
The attitude a writer has in a story or poem.
What is tone?
300
Shooting an Elephant
Who is George Orwell?
400
A pattern that is common to stories throughout time.
What is archetype?
400
Someone lost a limb, but grew a wing.
What is A Man?
400
Green Lantern's real name.
What is Hal Jordan?
400
A word's associative or emotional meaning.
What is connotation?
400
The Odyssey
Who is Homer?
500
Subtle differences.
What are nuances?
500
Orwell in Burma.
What is Shooting an Elephant?
500
The protagonist and assistant/mentor in Back to the Future.
Who are Marty McFly and Doctor Emmett Brown?
500
An author's choice of words.
What is diction?
500
A Man
Who is Nina Cassian?
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