Story Structures
This is the time and location a piece of literature is based in.
What is setting?
These are the two basic types of characterization in literature.
What are direct and indirect characterization?
These are the two basic types of conflict in literature.
What is internal and external conflict?
This compares two unlike things by using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
"I wanted to tell my mother, my father, and my brother about my promotion" is an example of this type of sentence structure.
What is parallelism?
This is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This is a theme that exists across all cultures and times.
What is a universal theme?
This involves two or more forces in opposition with one another.
What is conflict?
Describing Okonkwo's physical features is an example of this kind of characterization.
What is direct characterization?
Amir versus Assef is an example of this type of conflict.
What is man versus man?
This device gives human traits to nonhumans.
What is personification?
This is the kind of sentence in which a subject does not perform an action, but has an action done upon them.
What is a passive sentence?
This is the action of a sentence; it tells readers what occurs.
What is a verb?
This kind of narrative structure jumps between time periods.
What is a nonlinear structure?
This is the representation of the traits, motives, and psychology of a character in a narrative.
What is characterization?
Reading a character's thoughts is an example of this kind of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
Dede's mixed feelings about being the only surviving Mirabal sister is this kind of conflict.
What is man versus self?
This is extreme exaggeration for humorous effect.
What is hyperbole?
This structural error occurs when a descriptive phrase is not placed next to the phrase it is altering.
What is a misplaced modifier?
This modifies or describes an action or tells frequency or amount.
What is an adverb?
This is the number of syllables in a haiku.
This is a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
What is theme?
Minerva's growing interest in justice and law is an example of this kind of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
Amir learning that he made many of the same mistakes as Baba is an example of this kind of conflict.
What is man versus fate?
This poetic device uses intentionally repeated beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
This occurs when two independent clauses are separated by a comma without a coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
There are only three of these in the English language.
What are articles?
This is the predominant religion of Afghanistan.
What is Islam?
This is the highest point of tension in a story.
What is climax?
These kinds of characters are rarely main characters because they are often stereotypes or caricatures of real people.
What are flat characters?
Okonkwo's banishment is an example of this type of conflict.
What is man versus society?
Hassan's role as a "sacrificial lamb" is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
Visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory are all types of this literary device.
What is imagery?
This tells place, time, direction, or purpose in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
This culture had a polytheistic religion.
What is the Igbo people?