Narrative (Fiction/Literature)
What do you call the sequence of events (what happens) in a narrative?
What is a PLOT?
What type of sentence is usually the first or last sentence in a paragraph (and states the main idea)?
What is a TOPIC SENTENCE?
This is another term for the narrator of a poem.
Who is the SPEAKER?
What do you call a person who writes plays?
What is a PLAYWRIGHT?
This type of clause can stand by itself as a complete sentence.
What is an INDEPENDENT CLAUSE?
In the e_______, the characters, setting, and motivations are introduced.
What is an EXPOSITION?
To make an _________ is to make an educated guess using the provided details and prior knowledge/personal experience.
What is an INFERENCE?
What type of phrasing (language) goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across? (Hint: begins with an "f")
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?
What do you call the notes that describe how the play is to be performed and staged? (Hint: They are usually printed in italics and enclosed within parentheses or brackets.)
What are STAGE DIRECTIONS?
This part of speech modifies a noun or pronoun by describing it or giving it a more specific meaning.
What is an ADJECTIVE?
What is the part of a story in which the conflict begins to brew?
What is a RISING ACTION?
When a central idea is not directly stated by the author, then it is ______________.
What is IMPLIED?
This type of figurative language compares two different things or ideas using the word "like" or "as."
What is a SIMILE?
In poems, novels, and short stories, it is usually set off by quotation marks to indicate a speaker's exact words to each other. In a play, it follows the names of the characters, and no quotation marks are used.
What is DIALOGUE?
List three ways you can correct a run-on sentence.
1. You can separate the independent clauses using a period.
2. You can separate the independent clauses using a semicolon.
3. You can use a comma and a conjunction in between each clause.
In which part of a story does the suspense thicken?
What is a RISING ACTION?
What is the term for a writer's position on a problem or an issue (in an argument)?
What is a CLAIM?
Time is money.
The above figure of speech is an example of a m______________.
What is a METAPHOR?
What do you call a lengthy speech given by ONE character that expresses that character's point of view?
What is a MONOLOGUE?
1. A GERUND ends with __________.
2. An INFINITIVE begins with the word __________.
1. -ing
2. to
Which type of narrator knows ALL?
What is a THIRD-PERSON OMNISCIENT narrator?
This part of an argument anticipates objections that people with the opposing viewpoint might raise and attempts to answer those objections.
What is a COUNTERCLAIM / OPPOSING ARGUMENT & REBUTTAL?
Alliteration, repetition, rhyme, consonance, and assonance are all examples of _______________________. (Hint: two words)
What are SOUND DEVICES?
What do you a call a situation in which the audience knows more than the characters do?
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
What are the following phrases called?
-in the night, for us, because of his illness, from the library, on the table, by the shore
What are PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES?