Lit Vocab
A writer's choice of words and vocabulary.
What is diction?
The plot point that best supports that the central symbol of "Gabriel-Ernest" is a werewolf symbolizing adolescence.
What is the fact that Gabriel-Ernest only eats children?
The type of narration that focuses on the thoughts of only one character, from their perspective, using "I." Must include the 2 types in your response.
What is first-person limited/focalized?
A element in a story that appears repeatedly, typically has symbolic value, and is explicitly mentioned in the story.
What is a motif?
This key sentence should appear in every introductory paragraph.
What is a thesis statement?
A device used to call something to mind without saying it explicitly. Typically historical/cultural in nature.
What is an allusion?
What is the rust?
The type of narration where all the characters thoughts are heard from the perspective of an external narrator. Must include the two types in your response.
What is third-person omniscient?
The word for a central idea or theme of a story, usually a single word noun or noun phrase.
What is a topic or thematic concept/element?
What the acronym PETAL stands for.
What is Point, Evidence, Technique, Analysis, Link?
Contrasting ideas placed next to each other to emphasize differences.
What is juxtaposition?
The purpose of the narrative shifts in "A Warning to the Curious." This purpose is compounded with the line "Of course, you'd have to take my word for it: Long's dead."
To make the narrator seem unreliable.
The most important strategy to determine pace in a narrative.
What are syntax and syntax changes?
Name the story this theme statement correlates to: Devotion outlasts death.
What is "The Lady's Maid's Bell?"
One of the synonyms for a theme statement.
What is a claim/argument?
The repetition of an introductory phrase.
What is anaphora?
The person who comes when the bell is rung in "A Lady's Maid's Bell."
Who is the ghost of Emma Saxon?
The most infrequently used narrative point of view, when the reader becomes a character in the story. It occurs briefly, for just a few lines, in "A Warning to the Curious"
What is second-person POV?
The symbolic meaning of Caroline climbing down more steps than she climbed up in "The Tower."
What is her inability to escape?
The words (or groups of words) you should avoid when writing a theme statement.
What are personal pronouns/can/might?
The unraveling of the events of the story. Comes from the French for "untying."
The attitude of the narrator toward Van Cheele in "Gabriel-Ernest." This attitude creates the humorous tone of the story.
What is dislike/disregard/mockery?
Because similar strategies can create opposite pacing, what ELSE is essential to determine the pace of a story?
What is context/plot?
The symbolic meaning of the rust in "The Tower."
What is the suffering (blood, sweat, tears) of women who climbed before her?
The two parts of the thesis statement.