Grammar
The term for descriptive words: beautiful, loud, green, sharp, etc
Adjectives
What authorial choice is most clear:
"The stars danced in the sky."
personification
A text that, while it may contain truth, is not factual or representative of 'real life'
Fiction
The central character of a text is also called this.
Protagonist
In the world of IB, the acronym "ATL" refers to this.
Approaches to Learning
Conjunctions
What authorial choice is most clear:
"She was as strong as an ox."
Simile
A text that is created to be performed, rather than just read.
A play/drama/script
A poem's 'paragraph', or grouped lines in a poem
stanza
What is the room number of the library?
(without looking)
200
This symbol can be used similar to parenthesis - to offset information - and recently has been somewhat controversial as it is often used in AI-generated writing.
Em Dash
What authorial choice is most clear:
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
hyperbole
The genre or literature that often relies on concentrated meaning, intense emotion, and sound (rhyme, meter, pattern).
Poetry
One of the purposes of rising action in a text
~teacher discretion~
- to build tension, to develop secondary characters, to reveal connections or emotions, to heighten stakes, to escalate conflict etc
You have the last names of these authors on the big posters - Morrison, Angelou, and Baldwin -
Give me their full names spelled correctly.
Toni Morrison
James Baldwin
Maya Angelou
The term for three periods in a row that indicates omitted language or a 'trailing off'...
Ellipses
What authorial choice is most clear:
Six silky snakes slithered slyly.
alliteration
(will also accept consonance)
A text about the whole of someone's life, written by that person.
autobiography
The term for when a reoccurring object in a text is that object, but also represents something deeper and thematic
Symbol/symbolism
OR, motif
Name a Wisconsin writer.
~teacher discretion~
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Patrick Rothfuss, Aldo Leopold
The official name for the comma that comes before 'and' in a list.
"We bought markers, paper, and stickers to decorate lockers."
Oxford Comma
What authorial choice is most clear:
The kool-aid man crashed through the wall!
onomatopeia
The word we use to denote any literature that is 'not poetry'. This is writing that follows traditional grammar and structure.
Prose
The point of view that refers to a narrator outside of the text who knows/sees all. This narrator can speak to the internal life of multiple characters but is not a character in the story.
3rd person omniscient
Before the invention of the printing press (1440), what was the literacy rate in Europe?
(There's a 10% window I'll accept)
20-30%