Literary Terms
Writing & Citing
Literary Terms II
Greek & Latin Roots
Greek & Latin Roots II
100
a category or type of literature
What is "genre"?
100
copying someone's words without giving them credit
What is "plagiarism" or "plagiarizing"?
100
a character that changes drastically throughout a story
What is "dynamic character"?
100
a Greek root that means "one"
What is "mono"?
100
a prefix that means "below" or "under"
What is "sub"?
200
the main character in a work of literature
What is "protagonist"?
200
re-writing text in your own words
What is "paraphrasing"?
200
the sequence of events in a story
What is "plot"?
200
a Latin root that means "same" or "similar"
What is "equ"?
200
a Latin root that means "good"
What is "bene"?
300
a hint the author gives about what may happen later in the story
What is "foreshadowing"?
300
a step of the writing process in which you re-arrange, add, remove and substitute text to make the writing better and more clear
What is "revision" or "revising"?
300
the relationship between the narrator and the story
What is "point of view"?
300
a prefix that means "between"
What is "inter"?
300
a Latin root that means "to break"
What is "fract"?
400
the act of giving human qualities or emotions to an animal
What is "anthropomorphism" or "personification"?
400
quoting by using someone's exact words and giving them credit for it
What is a "direct quote"?
400
Unlike denotation, this is a secondary meaning of a word, based on context, feelings and situation ex: strong-willed vs. pigheaded
What is "connotation"?
400
a Latin root that means "to carry"
What is "port"?
400
a Latin root that means "to write"
What is "scrib/script"?
500
a reference in a story to another piece of literature
What is "allusion"?
500
the five steps of the writing process, in order
What are pre-writing, drafting, revision, editing and publishing?
500
the eight parts of speech
What are "noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection and pronoun"?
500
a Latin root that means "to look"
What is "spect"?
500
a Greek root that means "man", "mankind" or "humanity"
What is "anthro"?