Unit 1
Obstinacy
What is the quality of being stubborn or persistent in a course of action?
Mutinous
What is categorized as unruliness and rebelliousness?
Inured
What is to make accustomed or adapted?
Languidly
What is slowly and weakly?
Surreptitiously
What is stealthily or secretively?
Plot
What is the sequence of related actions and events that forms the foundation of a story ?
Allegory
What is a story in which the characters and events are symbolic for moral or spiritual ideas?
Framing
What is used to lead one story, or plot, into another?
Connotation
What is the negative/positive associations of a word?
Pacing
What is how slowly or quickly the actions and events develop and unfold?
Resolution
What resolves the conflict and concludes the narrative?
Gothic
What is a type of genre that has dark and horrific themes?
Exposition through Thoughts
What gives insight into what a character is thinking?
Sensory Language
What are details that incorporate all five senses?
Rising Action
What develops the conflict?
Exposition
What establishes the characters and the main setting, and introduces the central conflict?
Satire
What is a term for a genre in which an idea is exposed as a way to call attention to something that needs to be improved?
Tone
What represents the author’s attitude toward a subject they are writing about?
Understatement
What is the representation of important information in a minimal or subdued way?
Emphasis
What is the focal point?
Flashback
What is when a story moves from the present to the past to provide additional information to the storyline?
Romanticism
What is a genre that talks about love and nature?
Climax
What is the most intense event in the story?
Symbolism
What is it when something stands for an idea or emotion beyond its literal meaning?
Falling Action
What is the aftermath of an action made as a result of confronting the central conflict?