An author provides hints about what will happen later in the text.
What is foreshadowing?
100
Force working against the main character.
What is the antagonist?
100
In MICE AND MEN it is described as "south of Soledad in the 1930s".
What is the setting?
100
The way a reader feels while reading a reading of literature.
What is known as the tone?
100
George feels this at the end of OF MICE AND MEN when he decides whether to let Lennie live or whether to shoot him to avoid a potentially more painful fate.
What is inner conflict?
200
Main character in a literary work.
What is the protagonist?
200
Using mice as a representation of death.
What is symbolism?
200
Perspective of a narrator not directly involved in a plot, but who is able to describe the thoughts and feelings of all the story's characters.
What is third-person omniscient narrator?
200
French for "untying"; after the story's climax, the sorting out of all the details that were mentioned in the story.
What is the denouement?
200
George shooting Lennie occurs in the part of the story.
What is the climax?
300
Humorous imitation of an original work.
What is parody?
300
The speaker or narrator's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
300
Author's use of descriptions or dialogue to reveal the traits of a character in a literary work.
What is characterization?
300
The difference between what is meant and what is said; sarcasm.
What is verbal irony?
300
The title of "The Lottery" is an example because of the difference between what the reader expects to happen and what actually ends up happening.
What is verbal irony?
400
Story told from the perspective of one of the characters who uses the pronouns "I", "me", and "my".
What is the first person?
400
Short story that is written to teach the reader a lesson or principle.
What is parable?
400
"The Story of an Hour" focuses on the struggle of the protagonist to express her true feelings after hearing about the death of her husband.
What is internal conflict?
400
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow".
What is an example of hyperbole?
400
When the reader understands something about a character or the character's situation that will eventually have negative consequences.
What is dramatic irony?
500
"The skies wept" is an example.
What is personification?
500
Author's writing style that appeal to one or more of the senses.
What is imagery?
500
The telling of a story from an outsider's perspective, who has access to one character's thoughts and feelings.
What is third-person limited narrator?
500
A parking checker who has his license revoked because of unpaid parking tickets.
What is an example of situational irony?
500
In "You Can't Take It With You" Uncle Basil sending Verner on frequent visits to the bank to take out thick envelopes.