Literary Terms
What word is used to described the overall feeling of a piece of literature?
What is, tone?
What does CER stand for?
Claim
Evidence
Reasoning
Which vocabulary word means to be deprived or lacking?
What is, bereft?
Sensory language used to paint a picture with words
Identify all the prepositional phrases in the following sentence:
Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go.
Over the river, through the woods, to Grandmother's house
What event kicks off the conflict of a story?
What is the inciting incident?
The two main characters in "The Most Dangerous Game?
Who is General Zaroff and Rainsford?
What is to be foolishly sentimental?
What is, Maudlin?
A comparison saying one thing IS another.
What is, metaphor?
What all needs to be in an MLA in-text citation?
What is, author last name and page number?
When the author hints at events which have not yet occured.
What is, foreshadowing?
Who is invoked at the bigging of an epic poem?
The goddess/muse of poetry.
The definition of Hubris.
What is, Excessive pride?
An over-exaggeration to make a point
What is, hyperbole?
Identify the subjects and verbs of the following sentence:
Megan and Carlos ran to the park, but they forgot their shoes.
Subjects: Megan, Carlos, they
Verbs: ran, forgot
The overall message of a piece of literature
What is theme?
Mrs. McCloud's biggest writing pet peeve.
What is lowercase i?
The definition of "In Medias Res"
What is, in the middle things?
The sun laughed in my face.
What is, personification?
Write an example in-text citation
Author: David Jones
Page: 3
(Jones 3).
When something different from the expected outcome occurs.
What is, irony?
When to use a semi colon
What is, between two related, complete sentences?
The difference between impudence and incredulity
impudence is to be arrogant, incredulity is to be disbelieving
I'm so tired I could sleep for a year.
What is, hyperbole?
What are the AAWWUBBIS words?
After, although, as, when, while, until, before, because, if, since