a reference to another event, person, place, or work of literature - usually implied rather than explicit and often provides another layer of meaning to what is being said
What is Allusion
100
fiction about a committed crime, how the criminal gets caught, and the repercussions of the crime
What is Crime/Detective
100
A short narrative that tells the particulars of an interesting and/or humorous event
What is Anecdote
100
a technique in which the writer records thoughts and emotions in a 'stream' as they come to mind, without giving order or structure
What is Stream of Consciousness
100
a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject
What is Textbook
200
A struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature. It may be external (person v. person, person v. society, person v. nature/fate) or internal (person v. self)
What is Conflict
200
Usually a fiction full of fun, fancy, and excitement, meant to entertain and sometimes cause intended laughter; but can be contained in all genres
What is Humor
200
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or
hero/heroine of a story
What is Antagonist
200
the script of a movie, including acting instructions and scene directions.
What is Screenplay
200
The central idea or ideas the creator explores through a text.
What is Theme
300
The moment of highest emotional intensity in a plot, when the outcome of the conflict is finally made clear to us.
What is Climax/Turning Point
300
fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread and sometimes fear in both the characters and the reader
What is Horror
300
the main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play,
What is Protagonist
300
a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience.
What is Radio broadcast
300
Travel writing a form of creative nonfiction in which the narrator's encounters with foreign places serve as the dominant subject
What is Travel writing
400
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; it actually states that one thing is the other
What is Metaphor
400
Any work of literature that includes material that is invented or imagined, that is not a record of things as they actually happened
What is Fiction
400
Point of view where an “I” tells the story. This “I” is usually a character in the story. Our perception of all the other characters and events in the story is limited to the way this one character sees them and tells us about them.
What is First-Person
400
a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused onto film or other light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally.
What is Photographs
400
A writer or speaker says one thing and means something entirely different.
What is Verbal Irony
500
the sequence of events in a poem, play, novel, or short story that make up the main story line
What is Plot
500
fiction with strange or otherworldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality
What is Fantasy
500
A scene in a story or play that interrupts the present action to tell about events that happened at an earlier time.
What is Flashback
500
an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
What is Pastiche
500
Point of view where the narrator can take us all over the world, allow us to see into the minds of all the characters, and help us to see events from several points of view.