Short Story I
Short Story II
Poetry I
Poetry II
Misc.
100

This looks not only at time and place, but also culture, season, and geography. 

What is setting? 

100

This is the closeness of the narrator to the events and characters

What is character distance? 

100

________ refers to the use of descriptive language that appeals to the senses, evoking visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sensations in the reader's mind.

What is imagery? 

100

________ poetry has a predictable pattern (follows a traditional rhyme scheme, meter, and structure of the poem.)

What is closed formed?

100

When writing a paragraph, or an essay, responding to the prompt, you MUST include ______ from the text.

What is evidence? 
200

This type of plotline is where you always going back in time over and over again

Flashback 
200

This term describes the subtle distinctions and complexities that make a character more relatable and realistic.

What are character nuances? 

200

_________ is a single row of words in a poem, which can be a complete sentence or a fragment

What are Lines? 

200

_________ is in free verse and does not have to follow any traditional pattern. 

What is opened form?

200

You describe __________ when describing the purpose of different elements inside of the text and their impact on the story. 

What is Function? 

300

This is an all-knowing narrator that not only reports the facts, but may also interpret events and relate the thoughts and feelings of any character.

What is Third-Person Omniscient?

300

___________ can be used to covey values characters have in story/time period by considering the history and surroundings of a place. 

What is setting? 

300

A group of lines in a poem is called a _________.

What are stanzas? 

300

_______ compares 2 things that are not alike over multiple lines/ paragraphs/entire work

What is an extended metaphor? 

300

___________ is your interpretation of the text that you have to defend with evidence from the text and use your reasoning to show why that evidence supports your interpretation.

What is a defensible thesis/claim?

400

This term describes the physical, emotional, and psychological traits of a character. 

What is characterization? 

400

This term in literature means a symbol, pattern, plot, or character template that appears in multiple stories from across cultures

What is an archetype? 

400

___________ is a literary device that uses a person, object, word, or situation to represent something else

What is a symbol? 

400

___________ assigns human traits to nonliving objects/characterizes the object. 

What is personification? 

400

________________ explains how your evidence connects back to your thesis statement. 

What is reasoning? 

500

This type of plotline is where we begin in the middle of the action

What is In Media Res? 
500

________ help develop the plot and character development by how events unfold between one character vs. another. 

What is contrasting characters? 

500

_________  is when a comparison is made between two things explicitly and it is easy to detect.

what is a direct metaphor? 

500

_________ is a reference to something that exists outside of the text.

What is allusion? 

500

________ is a figurative comparison that suggests a connection between two things without explicitly stating the comparison.

What is an implied metaphor?