Literary Terms 1
This is a character with little individuality, whose mindset the reader knows little about.
What is a flat character?
This is the author of A Christmas Carol.
Who is Charles Dickens?
This is a brief work of prose fiction.
What is a short story?
This is the author of a drama.
What is a playwright?
This is a reading strategy that involves noting the similarities and differences between characters in a story.
What is compare and contrast?
This is a character whose personality is well-defined by the author, and who often undergoes a profound change.
What is a round character?
This is Scrooge's deceased business partner whose ghost appears to Scrooge on Christmas Eve.
Who is Jacob Marley?
This is literature that is written to be performed.
What is drama?
These are instructions for how to perform a play.
What are stage directions?
This is a reading strategy that involves creating a mental picture from words you have read or heard.
What is visualization?
This is a reference within a work of literature to something outside the work (usually an event in history or another artistic work).
What is an allusion?
This is Scrooge's little sister and the mother of Scrooge's nephew Fred.
Who is Fan?
This is a story in which the author recounts the memory of a personal experience.
What is a memoir?
These are major divisions of a play.
What are acts?
This is the practice of making educated guesses about the outcome of a story's plot.
What is making predictions?
This is a type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development, but the characters in the story are not.
What is dramatic irony?
This is Scrooge's employee, who receives a pay raise from Scrooge at the end of the story.
Who is Bob Cratchit?
This is a story that combines imagined events and characters with historical characters, events, and setting from an earlier time period.
What is historical fiction?
These are smaller units of a play, subdivisions of acts.
What are scenes?
This is the strategy of reading a text aloud with appropriate accuracy, rate, and expression.
What is oral fluency?
This is language used to convey a meaning other than what is stated, or a contradiction between what is expected and what actually happens.
What is irony?
This is the character who says, "God bless us, every one!"
Who is Tiny Tim?
This is a story which tells about real-life events in an enjoyable way.
What is narrative nonfiction?
This is the emotion that pervades a work of literature.
What is mood?
This is a visual or graphic aid that can help a reader see relationships, organize ideas, and remember information.
What is a graphic organizer?