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Non-Fiction
100
A person, animal, or object that the story revolves around?
What is a character?
100
A character that remains the same throughout the story.
What is a static character?
100
The author's deeper message to the reader. The lesson learned by either the reader or the protagonist.
What is a theme?
100
The speaker's attitude toward the topic.
What is tone?
100
When someone writes to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader.
What is an author's purpose?
200
The main character, or hero, of the story.
What is a protagonist?
200
A character that changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
200
An object that reappears throughout a story. This object represents a deeper meaning or idea.
What is a symbol?
200
The atmosphere created by the setting, weather, or social conditions. These conditions cause the reader to feel a certain emotion.
What is mood?
200
The pattern of a text, such as compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequential, fact/opinion, problem/solution.
What is organizational structure?
300
The character who directly opposes the main character.
What is an antagonist?
300
A character with few traits and characteristics.
What is a flat character?
300
Details or events in a story that hint at what will happen later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
When the speaker says one thing but means another. Another form of sarcasm.
What is verbal irony?
300
Topic Sentence, Answer, Supporting Details, Explanation, and a Conclusion are all parts of this.
What is a constructed response?
400
When the writer describes a character through his thoughts, behavior, appearance, dialogue, and other character's thoughts.
What is indirect characterization?
400
A character with many traits and characteristics.
What is a round character?
400
When the character recalls an event that happened earlier in the story.
What is a flashback?
400
When the author creates a scenario in which something happens to the character that wasn't expected.
What is situational irony?
400
Advertisers may use techniques such as bandwagon, facts, loaded language, ethical appeals, emotional appeals, or celebrity endorsements to attract consumers to a product. Methods -- not based in fact -- that are used to make arguments more persuasive. Critical readers need to watch out for them, whether they are used by purpose or by accident.
What are propaganda techniques?
500
When the protagonist faces a struggle within himself.
What is internal conflict?
500
When the protagonist faces a struggle with another person, society, fate, or nature.
What is external conflict?
500
When the audience knows something that the protagonist doesn't know.
What is dramatic irony?
500
Words that convey a certain emotion. For example, "she stomped" conveys an emotion that "she stepped" does not.
What is connotation?
500
Helps readers to clarify meaning by restating information in their own words.
What is paraphrasing?