Middle School ELA
This acronym is used to characterize.
What is STEAL?
Who is August Wilson?
This mythical horse in Greek mythology with wings helps several demi-gods.
What is Pegasus?
What is narrative poetry?
This is the coat of armor, worn by thanes. consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form mesh.
What is maille (mail)?
This character is known as the hero or the good guy in a story.
What is the protagonist?
This type of literature is based on an author's imagination.
What is fiction literature?
This is a term used to describe when Hollywood TV and film producers cast white actors in ethnic roles.
What is whitewashing?
This is language that employs one or more figures of speech (such as: simile, metaphor, imagery, etc).
What is figurative language?
This is an element of Anglo-Saxon poetry that involves renaming or describing things indirectly.
What is a kenning?
This is a character you only know a little about.
What is a flat character?
This is the message of the story.
What is theme?
This vocabulary word describes the manner used by Ancient Greece, Native American tribes, and African cultures to pass down their history, culture and stories.
What is oral tradition?
Colonists desired to found a nation based on these principles.
What is democracy?
This is the central character of an epic who is usually larger-than-life, typically of noble birth, and who pits his skill against an opposing evil force.
What is an epic hero?
In the series Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy was considered this kind of character.
What is an anatagonist?
This occurs when a character says one thing but means another.
What is verbal irony?
This Greek demi-god undergoes 12 labors. His trials are theorized to be the basis for the 12 Zodiac signs.
Who is Hercules?
This is used to make arguments more persuasive by employing appeals to emotion, values, character, and reason.
What are rhetorical appeals?
This is the title of an epic narrative that details the accounts of the Geats, Danes, and three monsters.
What is Beowulf?
This part of the plot introduces the setting and the characters.
What is the exposition?
This an ordinary object, event, person, or animal to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance.
What is symbol?
This is a polytheistic religion that has thousands of different gods and goddesses and plays a part in Indian, Nepalese and South-east Asian literature and culture.
What is Hinduism?
These are the three most common modes of persuasion.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos.
This is what occurs in a text when a character receives help from a God or supernatural force.
What is divine intervention?