Literary Terms
This literary term is the sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
The two types of characterization
What are Direct and Indirect?
This character meets a challenge and saves the day.
Who is The Hero?
Canoe. Concert. Corvette.
What is The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant?
This sentence embodies the primary point of your essay.
What is the thesis?
This is a person that may peer pressure you in a negative direction; mala influencia.
What is "bad influence"?
Mrs. Copeman's Birthday.
October 18th
This literary term is the primary issue a character may face in a story
What is conflict?
This character is typically the villain of the story.
What is the antagonist?
This character is typically a child with pure intentions.
Who is The Innocent?
Asthma. Dreams. Telenovela.
What is Bad Influence?
This type of essay shows the similarities and differences between two literary elements or stories.
What is comparative/compare&contrasting?
Ben Barkley's official job title
What is a chauffeur?
Mrs. Copeman's Alma Mater
Baldwin
Temple University
Eastern University
This literary term notes when a theme or phrase reoccurs throughout the text.
What is motif?
This type of character is typically the opposite of the protagonist. They serve to bring the protagonist's qualities to sharper relief.
What is a foil?
This character speaks important truths. Strengths: being funny, disarming, and insightful.
Who is The Jester?
Whitehill. Doctor. Board of Overseers.
What is "The Lie"?
This type of writing is another word for story.
What is narrative writing?
The person in charge of a boat, particularly its navigation and steering
What is coxswain?
Mrs. Copeman's Favorite Color
Pink
These two literary terms describe the author's word choice and sentence structure
What is diction and syntax?
This type of character represents a concept of theme larger than themselves.
What is a symbolic character?
This archetype is powerful and harnesses the ways of the universe to achieve their goals
Who is the Magician?
Two Families. Love. Murder.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This should be used in almost every literary response.
What is textual evidence?
Found in the story "Marigolds," this word refers to something that lacks a clear structure, form, or shape.
What is Amorphous?
Name one of the three things that qualify a student as being Mrs. Copeman's "favorite."
Productive
Personable
Respectful
Internal and External Conflict covers these 4 types of issues a character may face. Character verses...
What is self, nature, society, and another character.
This character has a stereotypical fixed set of personality traits.
What is a Stock Character?
What is an Archetype?
This wise archetype has a weakness of being overly cautious. An example is Dumbledore.
Who is The Sage?
Xiamara. Journal. NYC.
What is the Poet X?
This type of writing takes a passage from the text and examines its meaning and connection to english class terms.
What is a Literary Analysis?
This word (which sounds like a curse word and an odd number combo) appears in "The Lie" and means extremely stupid or foolish.
What is asinine?
Other than Philadelphia, Mrs. Copeman worked in this other city.
What is New Orleans?