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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the time and place a story takes place? | Setting |
| How many point of views are there? | 4-First person, Second person, Third person Limited, and Third Person Omniscient. |
| In third person omniscient what does omni mean? | Omni means all |
| What method does the author use to get the reader to understand the character? | Characterization |
| What are the two main types of conflict | Internal and External |
| If you can not decide what to wear in the morning what conflict is that? | Internal Conflict |
| If you get in a fight with someone in the hallway what type of conflict is that? | External Conflict |
| The hero or main character in a story is called what? | Protagonist |
| Main character in the most dangerous game | Sanger Rainsford |
| The person who goes against the main character is called what? | Antagonist |
| A character that changes though the story is called a what type of character. | Dynamic character |
| A character that does not change throughout the story is called what? | Static Character |
| A character who's qualities contradict another character is called what. | Foil Character |
| What kills the two men in the interlopers? | Eaten alive by wolves |
| Beginning of a plot diagram is called what? | Exposition |
| The highest point of a plot diagram is called what? | Climax |
| The end of the plot diagram is called what? | Resolution |
| The main idea is called what | Theme (The message) |
| A part of a story that takes the reader from the present to the past and back to the present is called what? | Flashback |
| What is it called when an author gives hints on what is going to happen later in the story? | Foreshadowing |
| How many types of irony are there? | 3- Dramatic, situational, and verbal irony |
| What is it called when an author is associated with a group in a negative way? | Stereotype |
| An object that represents something else is called what? | Symbolism |
| How the author feels about what they write is called what? | Tone |
| How the reader feels about that they read is called what | mood |
| What is an indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, or literary significance? | Allusion |
| What is a technique used in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis. | Repetition |
| What is the literary term for the thing that refers to a word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes. | Onomatopoeia |
| What is the literary term for attributing human characteristics, emotions, form, or behaviors to non-human entities like animals, gods, or objects. | Anthropomorphic |
| What are Rhyming Capulets? | rhyming at the end of a stanza like -My cat is chasing a mouse chasing a it round and round inside the house. |
| A dictionary definition of a word is called what? | denotation |
| Slang definition of a word in the dictionary is called what? | Connotation |
| What literary term is for a seemingly absurd or self0contradictory statement that, upon closer inspection, reveals a hidden, deeper truth? | Paradox |
| A literary term that any recurring element, idea, or pattern in a story, artwork, or design that helps develop a central theme or mood is called what? It is also seem in the poem the bells by saying bells ,bells ,bells. | Motif |
| What is a work of literature, especially a play, that results in tragedy for the main character? | Tragedy |
| What is it called when a person of high rank and personal quality who becomes caught up in a series of events that inevitably results in disaster? | Tragic Hero |
| What is the literary term for a characters weakness? | Tragic Flaw |
| What is a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage? | Soliloquy |
| What is a short speech delivered by an actor in a play, expressing the characters thoughts. It is directed to the audience and is presumed to be inaudible to the other actors on stage? | Aside |
| What is a speech by one character in a play story or poem? | Monologue |
| What is a dirty written to be preformed by actors? | Drama |
| What is a ten syllable line of poetry in which every second syllable is stressed? | Iambic Pentameter |
| What is poetry written in obtained iambic pentameter lines | blank verse |
| What is a figure of speech in which contradictory terms are combined (ex: icy hot) | oxymoron |
| What is a humorous use of a word involving two interpretations of the beginning? | pun |