Literary Terms
Any description that appeals to any of the five senses: sights, sounds, feelings, smells, tastes
What is imagery?
This is the term the beings in the Bardo use for 'casket.'
What is 'sick-box'?
He was the president who signed the executive order creating detainment camps for Japanese Americans and others of Japanese descent.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
In-text citations for novels include these two features in parentheses.
What are author last name and page number?
This is when a non-human entity is given specifically and uniquely human qualities.
What is personification?
Description of appearance, speech, what is said by others, actions, and, sometimes, private thoughts.
What is indirect characterization?
This is the term the beings in the Bardo use for being raptured to the next plane of existence?
What is 'matterlightblooming' phenomenon?
This is the narrative point of view of When the Emperor was Divine.
What is multiple shared first person narration?
This is the correct formatting for typed titles of novels.
A direct comparison of two things (people, places, events, objects, etc) to illustrate a larger truth or idea.
What is metaphor?
The central and unifying ideas of a text. These are not explicitly stated but must be inferred and interpreted; they are universal ideas that transcend the narrow confines of the narrative, and connect with all people at all times. Examples might include greed, ambition, identity.
What are themes?
This character is followed by three bubbles, each containing an image of one of her three daughters, "(her) Paris, (her) Rome, (her) Constantinople."
Who is Jane Ellis?
The final chapter of When the Emperor was Divine is narrated by this character.
Who is the father/the man?
This is the term for the formatting of a Works Cited citation that positions the second and other subsequent lines underneath the first line.
What is a 'hanging indent'?
Examples include when a situation turns out differently than expected, or when someone says something but means another, or, in a play, when the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is irony?
A reference in a text to something outside of the text -- this can be something from history, religion, or culture -- that illustrates important themes and shows there is a larger world in which the narrative is set
What is allusion?
This was the character Hans Vollman's job in his existence on Earth.
What is printer?
The obedient submission of White Dog to the authority of the mother in a way that previews her family's surrendering to the U.S. government is an example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
This type of source--such as a literary criticism--offers commentary and reaction to a primary document.
What is a secondary source?
A narrative technique which attempts to present the inner workings of the mind in a manner that reflects the scattered, associative nature of human thought.
What is stream of consciousness?
An author's choice of specific words to create tone and meaning
What is diction?
The concept of a bardo comes from this religion.
What is Buddhism?
This was the name of the lake near the prison facility where the Japanese American family featured in the novel were held.
What is Lake Intermittent?
This determines the order of citations on a Works Cited page.
What is author last name?
A play upon either the meaning or the sound of a word
What is a pun?