Unit 1: Suspense
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
The general topic or central idea a text is about.
What is the topic?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
This trait focuses on the mechanical correctness of a piece, including spelling and punctuation.
What are Conventions?
The size of the margins on all four sides of an MLA paper.
What is one inch (1")?
Conflict where a character struggles with their own moral dilemma or choice.
What is internal conflict?
A type of writing that uses figurative language and is often structured in stanzas.
What is poetry?
The moment of highest tension or the major turning point in the plot.
What is the climax?
This trait focuses on the music and rhythm of the writing, including varied sentence structure and length.
What is Sentence Fluency?
The type of spacing used for the entire MLA-formatted paper.
What is double spacing?
This literary device is created when the reader knows more than the character does.
What is dramatic irony?
The message about life or human nature conveyed by a text.
What is theme?
The three main types of external conflict.
What are Character vs. Character, Character vs. Nature, and Character vs. Society?
Which trait describes the writer's attitude toward the subject and audience?
What is Voice?
The information included in the header of an MLA paper (top right corner).
What is the student's last name and the page number? (e.g., Doe 1)
A short, dramatic, and ironic story from this unit where a character is killed in a subway train accident.
What is "Button, Button"?
Name two texts from the "Conveying Courage" unit that are speeches or poems.
What is (answers will vary)?
The perspective from which a story is told (e.g., first person, third person).
What is point of view (or POV)?
Specific, colorful nouns and action verbs are part of this trait.
What is Word Choice?
List the four items that must appear in the upper-left corner of the first page.
What are Student Name, Teacher Name, Course Name, and Date?
The essential question for Unit 1: The Art of Suspense.
What is "How do authors create suspense, and why are we drawn to it?"
The essential question for Unit 2: Conveying Courage.
What is "How do people show courage, and what motivates them to act?"
The part of the plot structure that ties up loose ends after the climax.
What is the resolution?
What are the two most common organizational structures for a literary analysis essay?
What are compare/contrast and argumentative/persuasive?
Give the correct parenthetical (in-text) citation for a quote from page 54 of a book by Jane Doe.
What is (Doe 54)?