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Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Writing OERs
Literary Terms
Way Back When
100
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
100
A comparison made between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
100
This needs to be mentioned in the opening line of your OER.
What is the title or author?
100
The problem between characters and/or other forces in a text.
What is conflict?
100
The author of "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is dialogue?
200
Visually descriptive or figurative language, evokes the five senses (sight, sound, hearing, touch, taste).
What is imagery?
200
OER stands for:
What is open ended response?
200
The highest point of a story arch.
What is climax?
200
The name of the young boy in "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street."
Who is Tommy?
300
The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
What is theme?
300
A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
What is irony?
300
What you need to support your claim.
What is evidence?
300
A work meant to be performed on stage/screen/radio.
What is drama?
300
The protagonist in "Sorry, Wrong Number."
Who is Mrs. Elbert Stevenson?
400
A temporary state of mind or feeling.
What is mood?
400
Two things placed side by side to show contrast (i.e. the comparison of two characters).
What is juxtaposition?
400
This shows how your evidence supports your claim.
What is an explanation?
400
The position from which a story is perceived.
What is point of view?
400
The creator of "The Twilight Zone."
Who is Rod Serling?
500
An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
What are stage directions?
500
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
What is personification?
500
The number of pieces of evidence (at least) each OER needs.
What is two?
500
A work meant to be read such as a novel or short story.
What is fictional prose?
500
The person whose bed fell in "The Night the Bed Fell."
Who is the narrator?