Short Stories
The butterfly in a in "A Sound of Thunder” is an example of this story element.
What is a symbol?
This character really loved her potted plant.
Who is Mama?
My dog was as fluffy as a cloud is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
The font size your work should be in for MLA format.
What is size 12?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a Noun?
The part of the story(Freytag’s Pyramid) in “The Birds” where Nat Hocken gets attacked by the birds for the first time.
What is inciting incident?
This character developed into a better person towards the end.
Who is Walter Younger?
This is the protagonist of A Step from Heaven.
Who is Young Ju?
This should be at the end of your essays when you use multiple sources for information.
What is a Works Cited page?
This is the main idea of a sentence or what the sentence is centered around.
What is the Subject?
This character is the protagonist of The Birds.
Who is Nat Hocken?
This is the father of Lorraine Hansberry, known for his work expanding the housing industry for people of color.
Who is Carl Hansberry?
This book structure, characterized by short, descriptive moments and peers into the characters' life is what kind of book structure.
What is a Vignette?
How you order the date within MLA format.
What is day, month, year?
An action word.
What is a verb?
When Nat smokes his last cigarette this shows what part of freytag's pyramid.
What is the climax?
This is the reason Lorraine Hansberry was investigated by the government at 22.
What is they thought she was a Communist?
This character is a viable candidate for the “antagonist” of A Step from Heaven.
Who is Apa?
This should be included after using a quote or other information from someone else’s work.
What are in-text citations?
This is the term for a verb used/acting as an adjective.
What is a Participle?
The character in “The Birds” doesn’t take the birds seriously and dies.
Who is Mr. Trigg?
This is the name of the poem the play is based on.
What is "Harlem"?
“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” is an example of this form of figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
When formatting your paper, you edit your writing by using this when a new speaker is talking.
What is ‘indent'?
This is a word that joins other words or groups.
What is a Conjunction?
This character is an outcast compared to the world in this short story by walking at night and does not own a television.
Who is Leonard Mead?
This character starts out very ambitious but starts to lose hope.
Who is Beneatha?
“I was hungry, I was tired, and I was half-asleep.” What form of figurative language is used in this sentence?
What is an Anaphora?
Identify the error(s) in this in-text citation:
"quote" (bradbury 14.)
What are capitalizing the B and putting the period outside the citation?
This is a verb form that usually begins with the word “to” and is used as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
What is an Infinitive?
In this short story, two arguably major types of conflict are character vs. technology and character vs. society.
What is The Pedestrian?
This is the Magazine Lorraine Hansberry wrote for.
What is Freedom?
This term describes the idea that people are brought together by common beliefs or values.
What is culture?
The way you would format the text when naming a larger work within your essay such as To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is Italics?
The word "Swimming” in the following sentence “Malcolm’s favorite activity is swimming” is an example of this verbal.
What is a Gerund?
This main type of conflict is found is Harrison Bergeron.
What is Character vs society?
This was Beneatha's nickname given to her by Asagi.
What is Alaiyo?
Early in the story, the American and Korean cultures in Young Ju come into conflict when her mother forces her to complete this cosmetic treatment.
What is getting her hair permed?
The size of the margins on all sides of the paper for MLA format.
What is one inch?
This compares more than two things and adds -est to the adjective, or formed, by playing “most” in front of the adjective.
What is a Superlative adjective?