Poetry
What is a speaker?
This is the person who "builds" a play.
What is a playwright?
This type of character does not change by the end of the story.
What is a secondary/static/flat character?
This is something that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
This is the smallest unit of poetry.
What is a line?
This establishes the rhythm and cadence in a play.
What is music?
This information establishes what is ordinary and what is unusual in the story.
What is exposition?
Sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste are components of this literary device.
What is an image/imagery?
These two components make up a topic sentence.
What are a limited topic and controlling idea?
Popularized by Shakespeare, this type of poem consists of three quatrians followed by a rhymed couplet.
What is a sonnet?
This type of dialogue is said directly to the audience or to another character, while other characters cannot hear it.
What is an aside?
This is the tying up of loose ends in a story.
What is the denouement?
Examining the impact of individual words will help you explain this literary device.
What is diction?
Often seen in scholarly articles, this type of source offers an important critical framework for a research paper.
What is a secondary source?
The challenge sentence (this poem is about ___ and it says that ___) are meant to help you write these key concepts about a poem.
What are subject and theme?
In a Shakespearian play, this is where you'll find the climax or point of no return.
What is Act III?
This occurs any time an idea, thought, theme, or location changes. It’s also when the focus changes.
What is a scene?
Coined by Dan Shen, this type of irony only works if the audience has certain information.
What is contextual irony?
Without explaining this in your analysis, it will be difficult to follow your logic.
What are unstated assumptions?