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What is setting?
This term refers to the time and place in which a story takes place.
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What is rhyme?
When words possess pleasingly similar sounds which make them seem to belong together in pairs, we say that the words do this.
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What is figurative language?
Language that is used in a way other than literally is given this description.
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What is a Comedy?
This type of Shakespearean drama involves troubled love among two or more couples and always ends in at least one wedding.
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What is "A Christmas Carol"?
Charles Dickens, famous British author of works such as "Oliver Twist" and "Hard Times," wrote this short fiction about a mean old man who doesn't understand the importance of a certain holiday.
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What is conflict?
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A struggle between opposing forces is called by this term. |
What is repetition?
When a word, phrase, clause, or stanza is used more than once in a poem, it is an example of this musical device.
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What are topic sentences?
In a formal essay, these sentences must be debatable and supportable and must all serve to help prove the thesis statement.
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What is soliloquy?
At the end of Scene ii, in Act I of Julius Caesar, Cassius is alone on stage speaking to himself, which allows the audience to hear his plan to recruit Brutus and exemplifies this type of dramatic device.
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What is The Wizard of Oz?
Frank L. Baum gained fame and notoriety for writing this series of delightful children's books about a little girl whose dreams came true as she found herself exploring worlds "beyond the rainbow."
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What is tone?
This term refers to the attitude with which the narrator tells his or her story, or the attitude of the narrator towards his or her subject matter.
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What is "eye" rhyme/visual rhyme?
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The words "comb" and "bomb" may be said to be this poetic term. |
What is a translation?
When a writer must change another author's words from the original language to a different language, that writer is making this.
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What is dramatis personae?
This Latin-based term refers to the character list at the beginning of the drama, and literally translates to "persons of the drama."
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Who is Jane Austen?
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This Victorian-Era novelist is famous for writing such works as "Pride and Prejudice," "Sense and Sensibility," and "Persuasion." |
What is denouement?
At the end of the plot progression, after the falling action, comes this French term.
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What is consonance?
This musical device is most obvious in the phrase "a quick stroke of luck."
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What is parallelism/parallel structure?
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This type of written structure, which sounds like a geometrical term, requires that sentence structure contain patterns of structure which allow for more clear and smooth writing. |
What is exeunt?
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This obsolete word indicates the stage direction that more than one character (usually all characters) should leave the stage. |
What is historical fiction?
When a novel is written about actual events, but embellished with fictional details, it is said to be this type of novel.
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What is a short story?
A narrative written specifically so as to be read in one sitting is referred to as this.
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What is a quatrain?
A set of four lines taken together as part of a stanza in a poem is given this Latin-based term.
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What is a critique?
A literary evaluation of the merits and faults of a text in an objective way is given this term.
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What is an apostrophe?
When a character addresses someone or something that is not physically present with the character or otherwise is incapable of understanding or responding to the character, the speaker is employing this dramatic device.
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What is the James Bond series?
Ian Flemming is famous for writing this series of spy novels, but also, interestingly, wrote the ridiculous children's story "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" about a car with supernatural powers and sentience.
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