Literary Terms
The character we follow through the story
What is the protagonist?
They should have fixed the crime instead of adding more security.
What does the family in "Once Upon a Time" do wrong?
The first sentence of a paragraph
What is the topic sentence?
A piece of a sentence that could be a sentence on its own
What is an independent clause?
Weak:
hobble / frail / murky / coquettish
What is frail?
The moment of greatest emotional tension when the outcome of the conflict is decided
What is the climax?
Because he is an unreliable narrator
Why can't we believe the protagonist of "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
The lesser stories that extend off of or support the main storyline in a text
What are subplots?
A piece of a sentence that may have a subject or a verb but not both
What is a phrase?
Sadness
hub / revelry / sublime / melancholy
What is melancholy?
The part of the story in which the setting, characters, and conflict are introduced
What is exposition?
The crash of the piano keys, trying to throw the paw in the fire, trying to convince the man not to use the paw
What is the foreshadowing in "The Monkey's Paw"?
The emotions, context, and cultural significance that a word carries
What is connotation?
A list of the coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS)
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
Attitude
tone / critique / bosom / paraphrase
What is tone?
When the author just tells you what a character is like
What is direct characterization?
They just ended their feud and now will be eaten by wolves
What is ironic about the ending of "The Interlopers"?
Ordinary World, Call to Adventure, Meeting the Mentor, Tests and Allies, the Ordeal...
What are parts of the Hero's Journey?
What is when you need a comma?
Unsophisticated
skeptic / surreal / nonlinear / provincial
What is provincial?
When a story is told as if through a camera lens; we do not know the thoughts or feelings of any character
What is third-person objective point of view?
A tree branch falls and breaks the window and knocks over chemicals
How does the fire start in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
Because when all essays look the same, readers focus only on the content and writing
What is why we use MLA formatting?
It turns the independent clause into a dependent clause when you add it in front
What is a subordinating conjunction?
passionate
zealous / treacherous / surreal / rogue
What is zealous?