Literary Speak
Setting, characters, situation.
What is EXPOSITION?
The root that means "rule" or "to be first."
What is ARCH?
The error: Its so easy to do this!
What is "its" should be the contraction "it's" (it + is)?
v. to stop short and refuse to continue, to obstruct
What is "to balk"?
Was this guy real? Maybe. Or maybe he was actually multiple rhapsodes telling different parts of the story?
Who was Homer?
A reference to an event, character, or piece of literature outside the narrative.
What is an allusion?
The root "ego" means this.
What is "I"?
Find the error: Hey, Ms. P., were tired of review!
What is the contraction "we're"?
n. a lawyer
What is a barrister?
William Golding's grim perspective on humankind developed during this six-year period of his life.
What was his service the Royal Navy in WWII?
When the audience knows something the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
If you're using the root "polis," you're talking about this.
What is "city" or "state"?
Find the error: In the darkness, where the cruel dragon waited with it tail twirling like a clock's impatient hand and a its eyes burned like hot coals on a winter night.
What is an incomplete sentence?
n. one who is intolerant of another's beliefs
What is a BIGOT?
When she chose to leave Menelaus for a hot Trojan, she "launched a thousand ships" and started a 10-year war.
Who was Helen?
What is foreshadowing?
Tack this prefix onto a word and it means "bad".
What is "mal"?
Find the error: No one knew how the zombies breeched the gate but they staggered into the courtyard and ate the children.
What is a missing comma between "gate" and "but"?
n. a strong defense or fort
What is a "bastion"?
This story is ancient, but it is like Ralph's; he starts innocent and carefree but eventually loses that innocence and must face the cruel hardships of life.
What is the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible?
A figure of speech that compares two unrelated things using "like," "as," or "than."
What is a simile?
The root "vers/vert" means this.
What is "to turn"?
Find the error: As their winning streak continued, the Green Bay Packer's stadium could not hold all of their wildly enthusiastic fans.
What is a misplaced apostrophe in "Packer's"?
adj. wild drunkenness
What is BACCHANALIAN?
This 19th century novel is mentioned twice in LOTF and was highly popular in England when Golding started to think about the plot for his novel.
What is The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne?