A ______ is a character who serves as a contrast to another character. (Sheldon and the girl)
What is a foil?
100
A ________ is a scene in a movie, play, short story, novel or narrative that interrupts the present action to show events that happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
100
A ___________ is a brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about life. (The fox and the goat)
What is a fable?
100
_________ refers to a writer’s or speaker’s choice of words. (Sheldon-Stewey-Kelso-Yoda)
What is diction?
100
In literature, _________ is a type of writing intended to create a mood or an emotion or to re-create a person, a place, a thing, an event or an experience.
What is description?
200
A _______ is a traditional story that is rooted in a particular culture, is basically religious, and usually serves to explain a belief, a ritual or a mysterious natural phenomenon.
What is a myth?
200
In literature, _________ is the mood or feeling in a story.
What is atmoshphere?
200
An _____ is a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
What is an epic?
200
_______ means a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people.
What is dialect?
200
A ________ refers to two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm or rhyme.
“So call the field to rest, and let’s away,
To part the glories of this happy day.”
What is a couplet?
300
___________ was the sinister general, a murderer with refined taste.
Who is Zaroff?
300
An _________ is a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts. (Family Guy, Star Wars and Roadhouse)
What is an allusion?
300
A _______ is a story that is written to be acted for an audience. Characters are driven by motivation.
What is a drama?
300
__________ are all the meanings, association or meanings that a word suggests. Cuisine and Home-cooked.
What are connotations?
300
An ________ is a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike.
What is an analogy?
400
_________ is the guide who shot Eckels.
Who is Travis?
400
_________ is language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
400
A ________ is a song or song-like poem that tells a story. ________s often tell stories that have tragic endings.
What is a ballad?
400
_______ is generally a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is meter?
400
__________ is prose writing that deals with real people, things, events and places.
What is nonfiction?
500
________ __________ is the man of the future. Unfortunately, when he breaks free he is emperor for momment and then shot dead with a shotgun.
Who is Harrison Bergeron?
500
_________ is a type of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the reader’s emotions and imagination.
What is poetry?
500
An _________ is a very brief account of a particular incident.
What is an anecdote?
500
___________ is a reversal of the normal word order of a sentence.
What is inversion?
500
___________ is a type of writing or speaking that tells about a series of related events.