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Literary Vocabulary
Techniques in Action
Research
Drama
Advanced Techniques
100
The point of highest tension in a story.
What is the climax?
100
His face was as covered in wrinkles as a map is covered in lines.
What is a simile?
100
The road map for an essay.
What is a thesis?
100
These tell actors how they should perform their lines.
What are stage directions?
100
Her eyes were two shimmering diamonds that lords and kings wold have fought for.
What is a metaphor?
200
Language that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
200
The story of the three little pigs teaches us that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
What is a fable?
200
the credit given to the source of a piece of information used in an essay.
What is a citation?
200
A speech given by one character.
What is a monologue?
200
Mark Twain's "The Lowest Animal" is a short essay that humorously points out mankind's flaws and weaknesses.
What is satire?
300
The main character of the story,
What is the protagonist?
300
Larry's llama liked licking lampposts.
What is alliteration?
300
The practice of using other people's ideas without proper accreditation.
What is plagiarism?
300
A comment made by a character that is not meant to be heard by others.
What is an aside?
300
Fish and company smell bad in three days.
What is an aphorism?
400
Details in a work that help the reader visualize something.
What is imagery?
400
The moon is a harsh mistress.
What is personification?
400
Which of these is potentially the best source for an essay about penguins: 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguins 2 - www.booksie.com/non-fiction/essay/.../penguins-research-essay 3 - www.seabirds.org/ 4 - http://www.germanna.edu/
What is www.seabirds.org/
400
A single character, alone on stage, reveals his or her thoughts and feelings to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
400
While the presidential candidate was an effective leader, his extra-marital affairs proved to be his Achilles' heel.
What is allusion?
500
A technique where the reader knows important information that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
500
I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.
What is a pun?
500
This is the last thing a writer should do before printing their final copy.
What is proofread?
500
This is the driving force of a play that keeps the plot going.
What is dialogue?
500
George's love for Lennie is most apparent in the moment when he kills him.
What is a paradox?