Literary Terms
the highest point of action or suspense in a story
What is the climax?
Used to end a proper sentence
What is a period?
Paragraph number you are expected to use in your essays?
What is 5
A grizzly that plays by the rules.
What is a fair bear?
Hints about what will happen later on
What is foreshadowing?
Used when connecting two ideas as one in a single sentence.
What is a comma?
What is adieu?
What is a thesis statement?
An overfed feline.
What is a fat cat?
The reader's desire to know what will happen next
What is suspense?
When you start the sentence with the subject.
What is active voice?
An expression used as a greeting or to attract attention.
What is what-ho?
Mandatory in an essay, this backs up your main point.
What is the evidence?
A well built, sturdy desk.
What is a stable table?
The perception of a difference between appearance and reality
What is irony?
Used to connect two ideas. The two ideas could be separate sentences without this punctuation.
What is a semi-colon?
(Mary's dog is hyperactive; it won't stop barking or sit still.)
Comprised of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
The citation style that we will be using for English Essays.
What is MLA (Modern Language Association)?
An artificial small horse
What is a phony pony?
The main idea that the writer is trying to get across.
What is theme?
Contains only one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
A type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. 10 syllables, 5 stressed and 5 unstressed.
What is the Iambic Pentameter?
The three parts that make up an essay.
What is the introduction, body, and conclusion?
A polished monitor
What is a clean screen?