What a character!
When we are told a character's personality traits.
What is direct characterization?
A written account of a period of time or an event in a person's life.
What is a memoir?
Central idea of a work of literature.
A scene showing events that happened earlier.
What is flashback?
A first job and graduation are examples of this.
What is rite of passage?
A character with few personality traits.
What is a flat character?
The attitude of the writer towards his/her subject.
What is tone?
When something has a deeper meaning in the story.
What is symbolism?
Hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
These are the four guidelines to follow when writing a thematic statement.
(Hint: You must name all four)
What are concise, not a cliche, not a command, and universal?
A character who changes as a result of the story's events.
What is a dynamic character?
The kinds of words and sentences the author chooses to use.
What is diction?
A scene or line that is meant to take a break from a serious piece.
What is comic relief?
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is simile?
In "Typhoid Fever," an example of this type of literary device appears when Seamus says, "Anyway, Frankie, you'll be outa here one of these fine days and you can read all the poetry you want though I don't know about Patricia below."
What is foreshadowing?
A character who does not change in the story.
What is a static character?
Our sense of the writer who has created the work.
What is voice?
Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
A comparison of two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
When in "The Cutting of My Long Hair" a line says, "A large bell rang for breakfast, its large, metallic voice crashing through the belfry overhead and into our sensitive ears," it is an example of this literary device.
What is imagery?
What are the 5 methods of indirect characterization?
(Hint: You must name all 5).
What are appearance, actions, thoughts, dialogue/speech, responses of others.
Method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the mind of a character.
What is stream of consciousness?
Uncertainty in a text; a detail that can be interpreted several different ways.
What is ambiguity?
How a text makes a reader feel.
What is mood?
An example of this type of literary device is found in "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" when the narrator says, "It was these secret, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed, and I never made the same mistake again."
What is ambiguity?