Author's Purpose
The whole idea of the story, why the author has decided to write. Usually a sentence.
What is theme?
An actor standing alone on stage tells the audience their inner thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
The main character. The character the readers are rooting for.
What is a protagonist?
To compare two things using like or as.
What is similie?
The comma before the conjunction in a list of three or more items.
For breakfast, I had toast, bacon, and eggs.
What is an Oxford Comma?
I, you, he/she/they; who's voice the author writes in.
What is Point of View?
A comment made by the character directed to the audience.
What is an aside?
The character who blocks the main character.
What is an antagonist?
To give inhuman objects human qualities.
What is personification?
A series of dots that show the removal of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without changing its original meaning.
"..."
What is an elipsie?
How the text makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
A conversation between two characters.
What is dialogue?
A character who is the direct opposite of the main character to emphasize their characteristics.
What is a foil?
Comparing two things using a state of being verb (is, are, was, were).
What is a metaphor?
A piece of a word that modified the verb.
"She ran quickly."
What is an adverb?
How the text makes the characters feel.
What is tone?
A literary work that makes fun of society.
What is satire?
A line of poetry with a specific rhythm.
What is a meter?
When the audience knows something the characters don't.
What is dramatic irony?
A word that gives direction to the noun or verb.
Ex: After, before, under, over.
What is a preposition?
Ethos, pathos, logos.
What are the rhetorical appeals?
A type of play where everyone suffers and in the end everyone dies.
What is a tragedy?
The idea or feeling the word evokes, not its actual meaning.
What is connotation?
A person, place, or thing that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
Fix this sentence:
"no," jane frownned. "We cant just go in their!"
John glanced at her annoied.
"No," Jane frowned, "We can't just go in there!" John glanced at her, annoyed.