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Literary Terms
Literary Terms 2
Plot Summaries
Plot Summaries 2
Application
100
the time and place in which a story takes place
What is the setting?
100
the vantage point from which a story is told
What is point of view?
100
In a futuristic society, fireman burn books.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
100
Trout streams and waterfalls, for sale, are stacked like lumber, in a home improvement store.
What is Cleveland Wrecking Yard?
100
Emperor Yuan, rather than celebrating flight, kills the inventor of the flying machine.
What is irony?
200
a struggle between two people or things in a literary work
What is conflict?
200
a central idea in a literary work
What is theme?
200
set in the Catskill Mountains, a man sleeps through the Revolutionary War
What is Rip Van Winkle?
200
A robot accidentally kills a human when he tries to fix the human's thermostat circuits.
What is Humans Are Different?
200
In Cleveland Wrecking Yard, natural resources are stacked like lumber and for sale in a store.
What is understatement?
300
a statement that treats something important as though it were not important
What is understatement?
300
literature that is based on scientific laws, principles, or ideas
What is science fiction?
300
In the story within the story, Bertha is described as "horribly" good and devoured by a wolf.
What is The Storyteller?
300
The narrator pledges to take in homeless people when she has a house of her own.
What is Bums in the Attic?
300
A robot kills a human while trying to fix him.
What is dramatic irony?
400
something that is known by the reader or audience of a literary work but is not known by the characters
What is dramatic irony?
400
the methods used to present the personality of a character
What is characterization?
400
In a surprise ending, we learn that a man shoots his own brother in a civil war in Ireland.
What is The Sniper?
400
Swoodies cause weight gain which can be lost by paying to use the slimmer.
What is Lose Now, Pay Later?
400
Space travel, robots, futuristic
What are characteristics of science fiction?
500
a force that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way
What is motivation?
500
humorous writing that points out errors or failings in people, things, or ideas
What is satire?
500
In a small southern town, an unwelcome visitor paints a mural honoring one of their own, Jimmy Lyons.
What is War of the Wall?
500
Because of her discontent with life, a woman and her husband work for years to pay an unnecessary debt.
What is The Necklace?
500
In this story, Jimmy Valentine, ironically, uses his safe-cracking skills to save a little girl's life.
What is A Retrieved Reformation?