Short Stories
Rhetoric
Writing
Poetry
Chaos
100

The being telling the story, either in first-, second-, or third-person

Who is the narrator?

100

This rhetorical device utilizes quantifiable facts and details to sway an audience.

What is Logos?

100

A "TAG" line in an essay introduction stands for these three words.

What are Title, Author, and Genre?

100
This is when two or more words have the same sound at the ends of them.

What is rhyme?

100

This year's Summer Olympics are held in this country.

What is France?

200

The biggest moment of tension in a story when the protagonist must make a choice.

What is the climax?

200

This is the definition of "bias".

What is the tendency to prefer one thing over another, regardless of what evidence is provided for either side? (Also accepting similar wording)

200

A thesis can be defined with these two descriptors:

What are "arguable claim?"

200
This is the definition of imagery.

What is the use of any combination of the senses to paint a picture in the reader's mind?

200

The modern classic, The Hunger Games, follows protagonist Katniss Everdeen's tribulations. This character's actress in the movie adaptations is _____.

Who is Jennifer Lawrence?

300

In order, the six components of a plot diagram

What are exposition, (initial) conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?

300

This term describes a personal story speakers may use to have the audience relate to them.

What is an anecdote?

300

This is the difference between plot summary and analysis.

What is plot as being what happens in the story and analysis being the writer's explanation of that plot's significance?

300

This is the major difference between a metaphor and simile.

While both compare two dissimilar things to create a new connection between both, similes use "like" or "as", while metaphors do not.
300

The stored energy of position possessed by an object is referred to as ___.

What is potential energy?

400

One may discuss this "big takeaway" in an essay to talk about the "so what?" of a short story.

What is a theme?

400

Often in the name of making money or building reputation, companies and individuals may perform this without actually acting upon what they discuss.

What is virtue signalling?

400
A literary essay's conclusion should contain these two big components.

What are "a restatement of the main ideas/thesis" and "the big takeaways"

400

These are the "three pillars" of poetry discussed in class that can help you to better understand any given poem.

What are the poem's context, the poem's form, and the poem's figurative language/devices?

400

Name at least 9 different Pokémon types.

What are (any combination of): Normal, Fire, Water, Grass, Flying, Fighting, Poison, Electric, Ground, Rock, Psychic, Ice, Bug, Ghost, Steel, Dragon, Dark, and Fairy?

500

This narration style consists of the narrator "knowing all" and speaking with an objective point-of-view rather than a subjective one.

What is third-person omniscient (point-of-view)?

500

This is the definition of framing, as found in news sources and rhetorical speaking.

What is the way information is presented or withheld, especially for the purpose of swaying an audience?
500

These words, such as "because", "whenever", and "without", can be used to add arguments or details in the second half of your sentences.

What are subordinating conjunctions/subordinating clauses?

500

This poetic device involves two or more similar vowel sounds found within the lines of a poem.

What is assonance?

500

This is the national animal of Scotland. For some reason.

What is the unicorn?