Terms and
Techniques
Techniques
This is the term for a character or force in conflict with the main character.
What is protagonist?
True or False: Dystopias usually begin with the illusion that they are a perfect society.
What is true?
This term refers to when the audience knows something that the characters in a story or play do not.
What is dramatic irony?
A mangrove ______ provide good hiding places for aquatic organisms.
What is 'B'?
This choice correctly uses an apostrophe and "s" to establish that the "roots" belong to the forest.
This is the turning point or most intense moment in a story.
What is Climax?
This literary device uses exaggeration for emphasis, such as "I've told you a million times"?
What is hyperbole?
The time period that Dystopian stories usually take place.
What is the future?
The central message or lesson of a literary work is called this.
That is theme?
Initially launched in 1930 as The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, ______.
A: the book series has cultivated a following across generations.
B: fans have followed the book series across generations.
What is 'A'?
"The book series" is appropriately placed so that it's logically described by the introductory modifying phrase (Initially . . . Stories").
This is the introduction of characters and setting at the beginning of a story.
What is exposition?
This is the term for the perspective from which a story is told, using "I," "me," or "my".
What is first-person?
A common dystopian element that involves the strict elimination of free thought and individuality.
What is conformity?
This is when a narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is third person?
Although San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge appears in dozens of ______ it often gets destroyed in action and monster flicks.
A: films, but
B: films but
C: films,
D: films
What is 'C'?
This choice correctly subordinates the first clause to the second, independent clause using the conjunction (although) and a comma.
This part of the plot follows the climax and leads to the resolution.
What is falling action?
This is the term for a hint or clue about what will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
This 1953 Ray Bradbury novel features firemen who burn books.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
A brief, true story told to entertain or make a point.
What is an anecdote?
For individuals with less melanin in their skin, over-exposure to the sun can cause three ______ freckles, wrinkles, and melanoma.
A: things,
B: things;
C: things:
D things
What is 'C'?
This choice correctly uses a colon to link the independent clause and the list that follows.
Perspective of the events from which something is considered or a way of thinking about something.
What is point of view?
This is what you call a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work?
What is allusion?
In The Matrix, this is the name of the artificial world designed to keep humans enslaved.
What is The Matrix?
The art of speaking or writing effectively, or skill in the effective use of speech.
What is rhetoric?
When we won the lottery, we didn't expect that dozens of long lost relatives would show up on ______ doorstep.
A: our
B: Their
C: one's
D: its
What is 'A'?
This is the best choice. It maintains agreement between the plural pronoun 'our' and its plural antecedent 'we'.
The series of events in a plot, where characters face obstacles, deepens the drama and drives the story toward its turning point
What is rising action?