Definitions
Contains moral lessons and can be used to teach lessons in correct behavior.
What is the purpose of a fable?
Legend
What is a story about a real, famous person that is usually exaggerated or adds fictional elements.
Protagonist in the poem of Beowulf.
Who is Beowulf?
Ways to show character in literature
What are actions, personal traits and abilities, thoughts and feelings, relationships and roles, and responses to events or people?
The opposing force that brings conflict and is instrumental in the development of the protagonist, or main character
What is the antagonist?
A series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative
What is rising action?
Setting
What is the time and place in which the story takes place?
The protagonist in Man of Iron
Three types of settings
What are physical (geographical place), temporal (era, year, season, day, etc), and cultural (customary cultural practices of the story)?
The arrangement of a story that there is a beginning, middle and end
What is a plot?
The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work
What is a plot?
Denouement
What is the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction?
Themes of Beowulf
What are courage and generosity?
Protagonist
What is the central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel, or any other story.
A long narrative poem, which is usually related to heroic deeds of a person of an unusual courage and unparalleled bravery.
What is an epic?
These examples from Beowulf are what kind literary device:
"His nails were like steel and sharper than daggers..."
"The noise of the contest was as of thunder"
What is a simile?
Exposition
What is the writer's way to give background information to the audience about the setting and the characters of the story?
One climax of the story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp.
What is when... (several answers possible)
Genie appears and grants wishes
Aladdin marries the princess
Magicians brother seeks revenge
Alliteration
What is where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning consonant sound?
Verbal, Situational and Dramatic are the three types of what literary device
What is Irony?
A particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point
What is the climax?
Farce
The author of Canterbury Tales
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
Irony
What is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
This is used in many works of literature to show foolishness or vice in humans, organizations, or even governments - it uses sarcasm, ridicule, or irony.
What is satire?