It's All Literary
This refers to the type of literary text to help categorize its particular style, form, or content.
Genres
the process of looking closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together and affect the whole. This involves focusing on plot, character, setting, and other elements and determining how the author uses these elements to create meaning.
Analysis/Analyzing
This refers to how an author reveals things about a character. An author may use STEAL elements to do this
Characterization
makes a comparison using a linking word such as like, as, or than.
Simile
To double the point value, you have ten seconds to give an example of a simile
the repetition of one initial sound, usually a consonant, in more than one word.
Alliteration
Assonance refers to words that have repetition of similar vowel sounds but are not rhyming words. Examples are all and awful or feed and meal. Assonance may occur in the initial vowel as in alliteration. An example is apple and absent.
Consonance refers to words that have similar consonant sounds but different vowel sounds. Examples are chitter and chatter, pick and sack, or spoiled and spilled.
This type of literary passage includes adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, myths, science fiction, realistic fiction, allegories, parodies, and satires
Fiction
A person does this when he or she mentions a specific portion of a text in order to support an analysis of the text. A person may choose to do this as a direct quotation (a word-for-word repeat of the text using quotation marks) or a paraphrase (rewriting the detail from the text in his or her own words).
Cite/Providing textual evidence
Characters who often present conflicting or shifting thoughts, actions, and motivations
Complex/Dynamic/Round
makes a comparison without a linking word; instead of one thing being like another, one thing is another.
Metaphor
For double the point value, explain what an extended metaphor is
the repetition of terminal sounds in two or more words. Most commonly occurs at the ends of lines in poetry
Rhyming
For Double the points, recite a rhyme
This type of literary text includes narrative, lyric, and free verse as well as sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics
Poetry
to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text. This is different from an explicit idea or message is fully stated or revealed by the author in which the author tells the reader exactly what he or she needs to know.
Infer/Inferences
characters who do not have conflicting motivations, thoughts, or actions are called this
Flat
This gives human characteristics to nonhuman things. When an author describes an object as if it were a person this is called what?
Personification
For double the point value, you have ten second to provide an example of personification
language that appeals to the senses and allows the reader to experience what the author is describing.
Imagery
For double the points, do the chicken dance. No reason. Just do it
This refers to the feeling created in the reader
Mood
For an extra fifty points - what word is used to describe the authors attitude?
an overview of the text that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions.
Objective summary
when and where a narrative such as a story, drama, or poem takes place and establishes the context for the literary work. The “when” can include the time of day, season, historical period, or political atmosphere. The “where” can be as focused as a room in a house or as broad as a country.
Setting
an exaggeration beyond belief.
Hyperbole
For double the point value - what is the term that refers to the type of figure of speech in which ha writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it really is.
The dictionary definition of a word is its denotation. The _______ of a word is a specific meaning or idea that the word brings to mind.
Connotation
For double the points, do twenty push ups
A type of literary passage including plays consisting of one or more acts
Dramas
For the five hundred points - explain in detail the difference between topic and theme.
Topic - what a story/text is about
Theme- the moral lesson of the story
For the five hundred points, what are the five points in a typical plot diagram
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolutio
a statement that initially appears absurd or contradictory but proves true or makes sense when investigated further. One example is You have to spend money to make money. Initially, this does not appear to make sense, but a successful business must spend money on product, buildings, shipping, or similar expenses before the business can expect to sell product and collect money from consumers.
money from consumers.
Paradox
What are the three types of irony
Situation, Dramatic, Verbal
Additional 300 points for each one you can give a correct example of. You have thirty seconds