Point of View and Narrative Techniques
Patterns and Motifs
Figures of Speech and Sound Devices
Organic Unity and Binary Opposition
Sign and Referent
50
It is the method or strategy an author uses to tell a story and engage the reader
Narrative Techniques
50
This is something that happens again and again in a story
Pattern
50
This figure of speech compares two unlike things using like or as.
Simile
50
This literary concept means that all parts of a literary work work together to create one complete meaning.
Organic Unity
50
This is the word, picture, or symbol that represents something else.
Sign
100
Think of the narrator as a camera that can also read everyone's thoughts. It can move anywhere in the story and reveal what every character is thinking and feeling.
Omniscient
100
In a story, a butterfly appears in the beginning, middle, and end to represent freedom. What literary element is the butterfly?
Motif
100
"Buzz," "clang," and "boom" are examples of this sound device.
Onomatopoeia
100
A story about a hardworking student and a lazy student mainly shows what literary concept?
Binary Opposition
100
It is the actual person, place, object, event, or idea that a sign points to or represents.
Referent
150
Backstory
150
In writing, a pattern can be...
(3 answer)
Structural, Thematic and Stlistic
150
This sound device repeats vowel sounds within nearby words.
Assonance
150
In many stories, the hero and the villain represent what type of Binary Opposition?
Good Vs. Evil
150
Identify the signs and referent.
- Sign: The Philippine flag.
- Referent: The country, the Republic of the Philippines.
200
It is the voice of the narrator. It tells readers who is speaking and whose eyes they are seeing the story through.
Point of View or POV
200
It is repeating the same grammatical structure for balance
Parallel Structure Pattern
200
Is a language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense, it always makes use of comparisons between different things.
Figurative Language
200
He argued that a story's plot must have a clear
beginning, middle, and end,
acting as a single cohesive unit
Aristotle
200
According to Ferdinand de Saussure, a sign is made up of two parts. What are they?
Signified and Signifier
250
"You may think the journey is impossible, but if you keep moving forward, you'll eventually reach your destination." is an example of?
Second Person POV
250
What is the motif of the picture
Motif – The sunrise is a repeated symbol representing hope.
250
"Splash! The playful waves whispered while the moon smiled above." Question: Which pair of sound device and figure of speech appears in the line?
Onomatopoeia and Personification
250
It means placing two
completely different things side by
side to make their differences stand
out.
Contrast
250
According to him, a sign is something that stands for or represents something else to someone.
Charles Pierce