Unit 1
What is an imaginary yet perfect place?
Utopia
What means submissive, in the manner of a slave?
servile
What is using tricks or deception to get something or achieve a goal?
subterfuge
to make white or pale
blanch
made up of a large but indefinite number
myriad
What is the term used to describe all the skills writers use to create suspense, heighten interest, communicate a message, or make some kind of emotional impact?
author's craft
What is a technique of repetition where the same words are repeated in several successive sentences for emphasis?
Anaphora
What means having unclear or uncertain meaning, or having multiple interpretations?
Ambiguity
an educated guess
inference
What develops the central conflict while building tension?
rising action
Three important narrative elements are...
Plot, characterization, and framing
What is an approach in which the writer or speaker in a work addresses a character in the work directly?
Apostrophe
What is a strategy that gives insight into what a character is thinking?
Exposition through thoughts
What is a literary device in which an author uses a harsher form of irony to express disapproval of someone or something, often by mockingly stating the opposite of what is actually meant?
sarcasm
What includes a topic sentence, provides sufficient analysis, and includes a concluding sentence?
The basic elements of plot structure and their functions, in order, include these:
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
What is something that refers to the author’s attitude toward a subject he or she is writing about?
Tone
What is a literary device that uses humor or irony to ridicule customs or institutions found in a society?
satire
specific information
textual evidence
What is a plot that occurs alongside the main plot?
parallel plot
What is a smaller section of a longer poem?
canto
What is the beginning of the story?
Exposition
When you use this exposition strategy, a character introduces him- or herself to readers.
Exposition through character introduction
What is a literary device in which words are used in a way that implies the opposite of their literal meaning?
irony
What "hooks" the reader into your writing?
Introduction