Literary Terms/Devices
The author's message to the reader, summed up in one sentence.
What is a theme?
Which word has the following definition: "having the qualities of a devil; fiendish; outrageously wicked?"
What is diabolical?
What is false?
Give an example of a type of character typically found in a Gothic novel.
What is a ghost/spirit/monster/vampire/etc.?
"Research suggests that excessive homework might not necessarily correlate with improved academic performance" is an example of...
What is logos?
A speech by a character in a play, spoken to themselves.
What is a soliloquy?
Which word has the following definition: "generous, well-meaning, and kind?"
What is benevolent?
Dystopias use this type of control when they control society through products, advertising, and the media.
What is corporate control?
This is a setting where Gothic novels often take place.
What is a spooky castle/stately home?
"Think about how students feel when they have piles of homework every night; it's stressful, and it makes us more overwhelmed than eager to learn the concepts that you want us to learn" is an example of...
What is pathos?
"She was beginning to shriek now, sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat." is an example of...
What is a simile?
Which word has the following definition: "sadness, depression?"
What is melancholy?
This is the type of control that a dystopia uses if everyone has a TV screen attached to their heads.
What is technological control?
What is before?
"I know that my math homework is always more confusing to me than it is clarifying." is an example of...
What is ethos?
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" is an example of...
Fill in the blank: Our class showed great ________ when we powered through and finished read all of "Macbeth" after Keystones were done.
What is tenacity?
This is a character in a dystopian story who begins to question the world around them.
What is the curious individual/dystopian protagonist?
What is an example of a type of weather common in a Gothic novel?
What is stormy/windy/dark?
"It's time to think about this now, especially since we are in a digital age that makes cheating on homework that much easier" is an example of...
What is kairos?
Appearance vs. reality and light vs. dark are examples of _________ in Macbeth.
What are juxtapositions?
What is lament?
The purpose of a dystopian book is to magnify or comment on a _______ in society.
What is a fatal flaw?
Rather than speaking in standard English, characters in Gothic literature typically speak in this manner.
What is formally/flowery?
"I know that teachers value their students’ wellbeing and academic progress, but assigning homework does not achieve what they believe it does" is an example of...
What is mythos?