Fiction and General Poetry
A conversation between two or more characters, usually identified by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
An author's main point in argument writing
What is a claim or thesis?
The author of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
What we learn about a character through their thoughts, words, actions, looks, etc.
What is indirect characterization?
The way a text is worded.
What is diction or tone?
What is nevermore?
A poem's version of a paragraph
What is stanza?
When an author uses especially strong wording to emphasize their side of an argument
What is charged language or connotation?
The narrator's lost love in The Raven
Who is Lenore?
When an entire poem or story represents a larger moral or historical idea.
What is allegory?
When an author asks something with an obvious conclusion to advance their argument
What is a rhetorical question?
The time of year AND time of night the story was written
What is December/winter at midnight
When a poem switches lines earlier than it seems like it should, usually for a stylistic or symbolic purpose
What is a line break?
What you see is what you get
What is an example of parallelism
What is Night's Plutonian Shore?