Character
Figurative Language
Literary Analysis
Narration
Structure
100

a character who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

What is an antagonist?

100

a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning.

What is a couplet?

100

Quote vs. detail

What is the difference in types of evidence between FRQ 1 and FRQ 3?

100

the narrator's outlook or view on the story's events, characters, and the world

What is perspective?

100

be a warning or indication of a future event

What is foreshadowing?

200

characters in a story that are not as important as the major characters, but still play a large part in the story

What are minor characters?

200

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

What is alliteration?

200

addresses

What is the analysis verb that represents the writer's process in an apostrophe?

200

the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story

What is first person point of view?

200

the tone or mood in a piece of writing is changed in order to define characters or make a novel or poem more interesting, engaging, and effective

What is a shift?

300

the description of a character's physical traits (how a character looks), point of view, personality, private thoughts, and actions.

What is characterization?

300

a comparison between two unlike things that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.

What is an extended metaphor?

300

compare

What is the analysis verb that represents the writer's process in a simile?

300

the attempt to indicate on the printed page, through spellings and misspellings, ellipses, apostrophes, syntactical shifts, signals, etc., the speech of an ethnic, regional or racial group

What is dialect?

300

the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

What is plot?

400

a character that doesn't change throughout the telling of the story

What is a static character?

400

refers to a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object

What is apostrophe?

400

This refers to intricate structures, relationships, or ideas within a literary work that challenge simple explanations. It involves multiple interconnected elements that require careful analysis.

What is complexity?

400

works of fiction that are written in the form of letters or other documents. Frankenstein is an example of this.

What is an epistolary novel?

400

the moment when a character is suddenly struck with a life-changing realization

What is epiphany?

500

a struggle within a person's mind over a problem or question

What is internal conflict?

500

an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

What is parody?

500

humanizes

What is the analysis verb that represents the process the author uses with personification.

500
a comedy that satirizes behavior in a particular social group, especially the upper classes.


What is a comedy of manners?

500

In a longer work of fiction (novel, play, or epic poem) this serves as the shift.

What is climax?