Romeo and Juliet
Night
Literary Terms and Figurative Language
Miscellaneous Terms
MLA and Grammar
100

This 2 part event is the climax of the play.

The deaths of both Mercutio and Tybalt

100

On the train to Auschwitz, Madame Schachter has visions of what image?  

Fire 

100

This is a type of figurative language in which the author creates a mental picture for the reader using intense descriptions, details, and adjectives to appeal to the reader’s five senses.

Imagery

100

This is the point of view from which memoirs and autobiographies are told from 

First person point of view

100

These are the extra details and descriptions in a sentence that can include adjectives, adverbs, or phrases 

Modifiers

200

This is the very first part of the play that foreshadows the tragic events which will occur by the play's conclusion  

Prologue

200

What word describes the act of deciding those people who will live or die.  This act usually occurred either upon entrance to a camp, or before prisoners were moved to another camp.

Selection 

200

This word describes clues and hints that an author creates to suggest what will happen later in a text.

Foreshadowing 

200

This type of narration uses the word "you" and speaks directly to the reader or audience.  Speeches are told from this perspective.

Second person point of view

200

This is a type of run-on sentence that incorrectly joins two sentences together using only a comma 

Comma splice 

300

This character represents the mentor archetype

Friar Lawrence

300

This image is what Elie sees in the mirror after he is freed.  It is the last scene he tells his readers about in his memoir.  

A corpse 

300

This is a type of irony in which the reader has a greater knowledge of events in the text than the characters have themselves. We know the outcome of an event, but the characters do not.

Dramatic irony

300

This point of view is the most open and flexible available to writers. This type of narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing.

Third person omniscient point of view 

300
The following sentence shows an error in which type of modifier: Struggling with the algebra problem, the pencil tapped nervously on Kenneth's desk. 

This shows a misplaced modifier 

400

This type of character shows values that are shared by society; shows courage, leadership, and intelligence, and is the hero that must die by the story's end.

Tragic hero

400

This prisoner is hanged, deeply impacting the other prisoners, because he is so young, innocent, and angelic looking 

The young pipel

400

In a persuasive argument essay, this is the part in which the writer creates a response to what their opposition might say 

Counterargument 

400

This is the part of a character's personality that leads to their downfall or death

Tragic flaw 

400

This part of an MLA paper appears on the top of every single page, and includes the student writer's last name and page # 

MLA header 

500

2 part question: Who SAYS the following quote and who is being SPOKEN TO?  "For my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night's revels" 

Romeo says this to Benvolio 

500

This is the phrase that appears above the entrance gates to Auschwitz 

Work makes you free

500
In a nonfiction text, this sentence is usually found at the end of the introduction paragraph, and shows the writer's main argument

Thesis statement 

500

This is the part of the plot diagram during which the conflict begins

Inciting incident 

500

This part of an MLA paper appears only on the first page, and includes the student writer's name, the teacher's name, the class name, and the date 

MLA Heading