The creation and convincing representation of fictitious persons
What is characterization?
100
Selections of writing by American authors
What is American Literature?
200
The point of view opposite to a thesis
What is the antithesis?
200
To judge or determine the significance or correctness of
What is to evaluate?
200
To provide evidence, as clues, as to what will happen later in a story
What is to foreshadow?
200
The principle character in opposition to the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
200
the story of a person’s life written by another
What is a biography?
300
To figure out what is being unsaid by applying reasoning to what has been said
What is to infer?
300
Point by point comparison between two things for the purpose of clarifying the less familiar of the two subjects
What is an analogy?
300
A short literary composition on a single theme or subject – may be persuasive, narrative, expository
What is an essay?
300
the literal meaning of a word
What is denotation?
300
the story of a person’s life written by that person
What is an autobiography?
400
the short version of the story
What is a summary?
400
A literary, dramatic, or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas
What is allegory?
400
antithesis
What is the counterargument?
400
A struggle between opposing forces that is the basis of a story’s plot; can be internal or external
What is conflict?
400
the emotional response evoked by a word
What is the connotation?
500
This is when the forces/belief systems in your own mind, play tricks on you and keep you down -- keep you from being/doing your best, keep you from reaching for your dreams.
What is internal oppression?
500
This is when forces outside of you are trying to keep you down, or keep you from having access to opportunities and power.
What is external oppression?
500
A person or persons intended to read a piece of writing
What is audience?
500
The separation of the whole into smaller parts for individual study
What is analysis?
500
An act or the process of vocal expression that can be understood by others