The feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader.
What is mood?
100
A story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
What is narrative?
100
In this story, the main character, Paul Berlin, tells of the death of a fellow soldier and fantasizes about what he will say to his father when he safely returns from Vietnam.
What is Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?
100
In this story by Liam O'Flaherty, a young soldier is caught in the turmoil of an Irish civil war. He lies on a roof engulfed in the dark night of Dublin as the sounds of war echo around him.
What is The Sniper?
100
These are the -self forms of pronouns. They may be used immediately after another pronoun to emphasize or intensify the first, as long as both refer to the same person.
What are reflexive pronouns.
200
Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader.
What is imagery?
200
A writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
200
This is the story narrated by the brother of William Armstrong, a boy born with ailments and who suffered an early and tragic death.
What is The Scarlet Ibis?
200
In this personal narrative, David Sedaris vividly tells about the recent suicide of one of his siblings.
What is Now We Are Five?
200
Music, justice, time, and virtue are some of these because they are not readily countable. When referring to the amount of these things, you would use "less" instead of "fewer".
What are mass nouns or non-count nouns?
300
When a person, place, an activity, or an object that represents something beyond itself.
What is symbolism?
300
It is the attitude the writer takes toward a subject. It reflects the writer’s feelings.
What is tone?
300
This story features a hunter from New York who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean where he is hunted by a Cossack aristocrat.
What is The Most Dangerous Game?
300
In this story, an old woman in a poor neighborhood plants flowers in her front yard, only to have the neighborhood children destroy them.
What is Marigolds?
300
This has one of three uses:
1. To form possessives of nouns
2. To show that two words have been made into a contraction
3. To show certain plurals of lower case letters
What is an apostrophe?
400
Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meanings of the words.
What is figurative language?
400
It is a perception about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.
What is theme?
400
The story of a man who travels in the Yukon (in Alaska) on an extremely cold morning with a husky wolf-dog. As it grows colder, he realizes his unprotected cheekbones will freeze, but he does not pay it much attention.
What is To Build A Fire?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
Who is Ivan?
400
These are both indefinite articles which are used to refer to general noun. For example, instead of saying "Take this to the car," were we have a particular car in mind, one of these would be used.
What are a and an?
500
A poem, play, picture, etc., in which the apparent meaning of the characters and events is used to symbolize a deeper moral or spiritual meaning.
What is allegory?
500
A contrast between appearance and reality – usually one in which reality is the opposite from what it seems. There are three types of this in literature.
What is irony?
500
This is the young woman responsible for the destruction of Mrs. Lotties' marigolds.
Who is Lizabeth?
500
This is the nickname given to William Armstrong by his older brother.
Who is Doodle?
500
If you were trying to communicate that you do not have as much of something, this word would be used after you changed mass nouns into count nouns.