fiction with strange or otherworldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality
What is fantasy?
100
the use of words to create a picture or 'image' in the mind of the reader
What is imagery?
100
The time and the place in which the action of a book, film, play, and so on happens. Setting may also include mood and atmosphere.
What is setting?
100
Persons—or animals or natural forces represented as persons—in a work of literature. Characters may be static (stay the same) or dynamic (undergo a change in personality or attitude) and flat (merely sketched out often stereotypical or stock) or round (more fully developed).
What is a character?
100
a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused onto film or other light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally.
What are photographs?
200
Any work of literature that includes material that is invented or imagined, that is not a record of things as they actually happened.
What is fiction?
200
at its simplest level, it means saying one thing while meaning another
What is irony?
200
A struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature. It may be external (person v. person, person v. society, person v. nature/fate) or internal (person v. self)
What is conflict?
200
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or
hero/heroine of a story
What is an antagonist?
200
a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.
What are textbooks?
300
full-length novels with plot, subplot(s), theme(s), major and minor characters, in which the narrative is presented in verse form (usually free verse)
What is fiction in verse?
300
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; uses the words 'like' or 'as' in this comparison
What is simile?
300
The central idea or ideas the creator explores through a text.
What is theme?
300
the main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play, or story
What is a protagonist?
300
a short piece of writing on a particular subject.
What is an essay?
400
narration demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak as humans; legendary, supernatural tale
What is fable?
400
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; it actually states that one thing is the other
What is metaphor?
400
The moment of highest emotional intensity in a plot, when the outcome of the conflict is finally made clear to us.
What is Climax/Turning Point?
400
A representation or imitation of a person’s physical
or personality traits that are so exaggerated they
become comic or absurd
What is a caricature?
400
a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.
What is an editorial?
500
story about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children
What is fairy tale?
500
deliberate and extravagant exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
The methods used to present the personality of a character in a work of literature, both direct and indirect.
What is characterization?
500
One who narrates, or tells, as story.
What is a narrator?
500
a general term for any document that is read in digital form, and especially a document that is mainly text.