Zombies
Roms & Rom-Coms
On Writing
High Key
100

A zombie's favorite snack, according to popular media.

Braaaaains!!

100

Ending a relationship by completely disappearing with no further communication.

Ghosted

100

A comparison between two distinctly different things indicated by the word "like" or "as"

Simile

100

Something that is average or not very impressive. 

Mid

200
Island in the Caribbean where the myth of the zombie originated from.  

Haiti

200

In this book turned film, Lara Jean Song-Covey writes five letters—ones she never planned to send—to boys that she has had crushes on.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

200

The verbal interaction between two or more characters in a dramatic or narrative work.

Dialogue

200

An experience in a person’s life that comes to shape or define who they are

Canon Event
300

Director of Night of the Living Dead and known as "father of the zombie film".

George A. Romero

300

An amusing or charming first encounter between two characters that leads to the development of a romantic relationship between them.

A Meet Cute

300

The technique of disrupting the order of events in a story by shifting to an earlier time in order to introduce information

Flashback

300

Originating from the Eminem song of the same name, this is an overly devoted fan who idolizes the artist to the point of obsession.

Stan

400

True or False: Zombies are real and exist in nature.

True. From fungi to other parasites, there actually are organisms that have evolved to control the minds and bodies of other creatures. 

400

In order to be a true romance, stories must have this.

A happily ever after.

400

Meaningful ideas that recur in or run through the narrative.

Themes

400

In agreement with something, or used for okay or affirmative.

Bet

500

The Haitian-Creole word for zombie

Zonbi

500

Name the Trope: two people with opposite personalities meet, one a positive and upbeat person and the other a pessimistic person, and learn to love each other.

Grumpy / Sunshine

500

The emotional/psychological change that occurs in the protagonist over the course of the story.

Arc

500

Something or someone that is done, exhausted, or doomed.

Cooked