Show:
Plot Elements
Words that start with "D"
Author-Related
Types of Writing
Figures of Speech
100
the sequence of events in a literary work
What is the plot?
100
the type of informal diction
What is dialect?
100
author's personal favoring towards a subject
What is author's bias?
100
writing in which an author tries to sway the audience's opinion
What is persuasive?
100
figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness
What is euphemism?
200
background to a story
What is the setting?
200
items or parts that make up a larger picture or story
What is details?
200
meaning author expresses through his/her work
What is author's message
200
any writing that isn't poetry
What is prose?
200
hints about what will happen later
What is foreshadowing?
300
vantage points from which the plot of a story is told
What is point of view?
300
use of material unrelated to the subject of a work
What is digression?
300
the reason why an author created his/her work
What is author's purpose?
300
long narrative poem in formal, elevated style that chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation
What is epic?
300
statement that seems to be self-contradictory but is actually true
What is a paradox?
400
main thought expressed through the events of the work
What is theme?
400
the literal, dictionary-definition of a word
What is denotation
400
author's writing based on their own life
What is autobiography?
400
an account of someone's life story
What is a biography?
400
a deliberate exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
500
a minor plot that relates in some way to the main story
What is subplot
500
an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
What is denouement?
500
theme, meaning, or position that the author undertakes to prove or support
What is the thesis?
500
short composition on a particular theme/topic
What is an essay?
500
endows human-like characteristics to the nonhuman
What is personification?