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Literary Analysis
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100
The struggle or clash between opposing forces in a fictional story.
What is conflict?
100
Cow and plow
What are two words that rhyme?
100
The written text that contains the dialogue and stage directions of a play.
What is a script.
100
The large titles written at the top of a newspaper page.
What are headlines?
100
The reason that an author creates a written work.
What is authors' purpose?
200
a distinctive emotional quality or character created by an author's writing.
What is mood?
200
A B A B
What is an example of a rhyme scheme?
200
The verbal interaction between characters in a drama.
What is a dialogue?
200
The text under an image that describes what is in the image.
What is a caption?
200
The time period during which the events in a piece of writing take place.
What is historical context?
300
The people, animals, or imaginary creatures that are in a story.
What are characters?
300
A type Japanese formula poem that follows the pattern 5 - 7 -5 for syllables in each line.
What is a haiku?
300
Taking part in the performance of a drama.
What is acting?
300
Magazine articles often have these written in bold text to show the different sub topics the article is divided into.
What is a subheading?
300
The social, economic, and educational background of an author at the time they create a piece of writing.
What is cultural context?
400
The perspective from which a narrator tells a story. First person or third person for example.
What is point of view?
400
A poetry term that describes the repeated use of the same sound at the beginning of words. "He has his home in Homer" for example.
What is alliteration?
400
Text in a script that describes what actors should do.
What are stage directions?
400
Newspaper articles often contain this in the first paragraph to give the reader the important information about the topic.
What is a summary?
400
A word that describes some aspect of a characters personality.
What is a trait?
500
The action that takes place in a story. Typically broken into parts such as: rising action, climax, falling action, denouement.
What is plot?
500
A poetry term used to describe a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Acts of a drama are divided into these smaller sections.
What are scenes?
500
Magazine articles often have this feature which displays a verbatim quote from the article in bold text for readers who are previewing the article.
What is an excerpt?
500
A figure of speech that compares a human quality with a non-human object.
What is personification?