The turning point, and often most exciting part of a story
What is climax?
100
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things by using "like" or "as"
What is a Simile?
100
The reason the author writes the work of literature in the first place
What is purpose?
100
When the director of a film has sad violin music playing in the background, she is using this.
What is pathos?
200
This is when you would expect one thing to happen, but in reality, something totally different happens.
What is situational irony?
200
In literature, a word, a character, an object, an image, a metaphor, or an idea that recurs in a work or in several works
What is Motif?
200
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create comic effect
What is Hyperbole?
200
When an author writes a fun story about a silly brown bear who travels to the North Pole to meet his cousin, a grumpy polar bear...
What is to entertain?
200
When a presenter in a meeting uses charts, graphs, and statistics to make a point, he is using this.
What is logos?
300
This is when the reader or viewer knows what is going to happen to a character in the story, but the character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
300
When the author briefly stops the chronological order of his or her writing to tell about something that happens in the future
What is Flash-forward?
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
What is Metaphor?
300
An author writes a story to convince his readers to help save an endangered species.
What is to persuade?
300
When a person with no educational background what-so-ever tries to come to a university and teach a class on calculus, he is not using this.
What is ethos?
400
The fact that we, the readers, know that Elie Wiesel will survive the concentration camps, but in the beginning of his memoir, he does not is an example of this kind of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
400
The part of the story that establishes the setting, characters, and usually the initial conflict
What is an exposition?
400
A phrase that seems to contradict itself, but actually makes sense
What is paradox?
400
An author writes an essay to explain how his favorite dessert is made.
What is to inform?
400
When a writer is trying to appeal to your sense of what is morally just and what is unjust...
What is ethos?
500
In Elie's flash-forward, when the lady from Paris throws coins at the native children and says "But I like to give to charity."
What is verbal irony?
500
The last part of the plot diagram where all problems are solved and all loose ends are tied up
What is resolution?
500
Name this Figure of Speech:
The White House will hold a press conference at noon.
What is Metonymy?
500
Elie Wiesel's purpose for writing the memoir, Night
What is to persuade?
500
Writing that sets out to change an audience's thoughts or actions