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Reference to events
People
Genres
Literary devices
Basic
100
A notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.
What is advertisement?
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 type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions.
What is genre?
100
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?
100
The sequence of events in a poem, play, novel, or short story that make up the main story line
What is plot?
200
A reference to another event, person, place, or work of literature - usually implied rather than explicit and often provides another layer of meaning to what is being said
What is allusion?
200
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or hero/heroine of a story
What is antagonist?
200
A story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting
What is historical fiction?
200
At its simplest level, it means saying one thing while meaning another
What is irony?
200
The particular perspective brought by a composer, responder or character within a text to the text or to matters within the text. It also entails the position or vantage point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and presented to us.
What is point of view?
300
A short narrative that tells the particulars of an interesting and/or humorous event
What is anecdote?
300
An umbrella concept to refer to whomever (the reader, the listener, the viewer) a text or performance is aimed at, and the characteristics, impact or desired responses created. This impact could include humour, sensibility, critical stance, appreciation, empathy, antipathy and sympathy, aesthetics, mood, atmosphere and gender perspectives.
What is audience imperatives?
300
Fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread and sometimes fear in both the characters and the reader
What is horror?
300
The part in a story where the conflict comes to an end.
What is resolution?
400
A character (or a place or an event) that is used to contrast with another character (or place or event).
What is foil?
400
The reasons, either stated or implied, for a character’s behavior.
What is character motivation?
400
Usually a fiction full of fun, fancy, and excitement, meant to entertain and sometimes cause intended laughter; but can be contained in all genres
What is humor?
400
Also known as romantic irony in the context of Romantic works of literature, uses self-reference to draw attention to itself as a work of art, while exposing the "truth" of a story
What is metafiction?
400
The central idea or ideas the creator explores through a text.
What is theme?
500
An event or a detail that is chronologically out of its proper time in history.
What is anachronism?
500
A representation or imitation of a person’s physical or personality traits that are so exaggerated they become comic or absurd
What is caricature?
500
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.
What is satire?
500
The connections between one text and other texts, the ways in which texts are interrelated, and the meanings that arise out of their interrelationship. An overt reference to another text (as in a direct quote from another text) is also an example of intertextuality.
What is intertextuality?