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The background information to the story. We learn the setting, characters, and the situation.
What is exposition?
100
Define irony.
What is the opposite of what is expected?
100
The author of "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
The character with a very vivid imagination.
Who is Walter Mitty?
100
The story that has character vs. nature as the primary conflict.
What is "To Build a Fire" by Jack London?
200
The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak.
What is climax?
200
List the three types of irony.
What is verbal, situational, and dramatic?
200
The character that wins the lottery.
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
200
The reason the narrator kills the old man.
What is his eye?
200
This type of narration/point of view is "all knowing."
What is third person omniscient?
300
The atmosphere of a literary piece, as it creates an emotional situation that surrounds the readers.
What is mood?
300
A pilot had a fear of heights in an example of which type of irony?
What is situational?
300
The reason the man in "To Build a Fire" dies.
What is (possible answers) -he lacks imagination -excessive pride -doesn't listen to advice
300
This story set in Goderville, France.
What is "The Piece of String" by Guy de Maupassant.
300
The author from this unit that is known for humor.
Who is James Thurber?
400
The narrative perspective from which a literary work is presented to the reader.
What is point of view?
400
In a scary movie, the character walks into a house and the audience knows the killer is in the house. This is an example of which type of irony?
What is dramatic?
400
True or False? The boy in "The Glass of Milk" ate and drank very slowly.
What is true?
400
The symbolic meaning of Mr. Graves name.
What is death?
400
The general term given to the main character of a novel, play, or story.
What is the protagonist?
500
The only type of internal conflict.
What is man/character vs. self?
500
Define and give an example of verbal irony.
What is saying the opposite of what you mean? Example?
500
This makes "The Lady or the Tiger" different from many stories.
What is it lacks a resolution.
500
From "Gumption": "One cold February morning we was sitting around the stove in the kitchen..." The point of view from which this story is told.
What is first person?
500
Latin for “in the middle of things.” The term refers to the technique of starting a narrative in the middle of the action.
What is in media res?