Short Stories
This is also known as the message of a story.
What is the theme?
What is first-person point of view?
This is what a poem's "paragraphs" are called.
What are stanzas?
This is the name of the activity where we read scripts in groups.
What is reader's theatre?
This is the room number that we are currently in.
What is 329?
The term for the main character in a story (usually the good guy).
What is a protagonist?
A literary device in which the author hints about things that will happen later.
What is foreshadowing?
Who is Tupac Shakur?
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus is engaged to who?
Who is Hippolyta?
In the documentary, "Instruments of a Beating Heart," what instrument did Ayame play?
What is a cymbal?
The name for the last part of a plot diagram.
What is the resolution/
denouement?
In "Dream Snatcher" Trey Anthony's teacher told her she would never be what?
What is "a writer"?
Poetry usually includes a lot of this literary device, focused on the five senses.
What is imagery?
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck is also known by this name.
Who is Robin Goodfellow?
This is the name for a common error where two (or more) sentences are incorrectly joined.
What is a fused sentence?
This character, in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," is stoned to death at the end.
Who is Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson?
This is the name for an attention-grabbing written opening.
What is a hook/lead?
This is the name for a large shift in a poem's ideas or emotion.
What is a poetic turn?
This is the name of Shakespeare's theatre in London.
What is the Globe Theatre?
This punctuation mark can join two full sentences without a coordinating conjunction.
What is a semi-colon?
This is an acronym used to help you remember ways that an author reveals personality through indirect characterization.
What is STEAL?
A name for a character's moment of realization or insight, usually at the end of a memoir.
What is an epiphany?
In "The Raven" the titular character repeated this single word.
What is "nevermore"?
When not acting, this was Bottom's day job.
What is a weaver?
This is the name of Ms. Callbeck's dog.
What is "Apollo"?