80-100 Keystone

Question 1

Attempts to persuade the reader by showing the reader how many people think something is true.

Answer 1

Appeal to numbers, facts, or statistics

Question 2

The portion of the story following the climax in which the conflict is resolved.

Answer 2

Resolution

Question 3

The part of the story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated. Rising action leads up to the climax, or turning point.

Answer 3

Rising Action

Question 4

A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.

Answer 4

Satire

Question 5

Various sentence structures, styles, and lengths that can enhance the rhythm of or add emphasis to a piece of text. The presence of multiple sentence structures in a text (simple, complex, compound, compound-complex) and/or various sentence beginnings (e.g. Dependent and independent clauses, phrases, single words).

Answer 5

Sentence Variety

Question 6

A literary organizational form that presents the order in which tasks are to be preformed.

Answer 6

Sequence of Steps

Question 7

The time and place in which a story unfolds.

Answer 7

Setting

Question 8

A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g. The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah)

Answer 8

Simile

Question 9

A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage.

Answer 9

Soliloquy

Question 10

Elements of literature that emphasize sound (e.g. Assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia.)

Answer 10

Sound Devices

Question 11

The voice used by an author to tell/ narrate a story or poem. The speaker is often a created identity, and should not automatically be equated with the author. See also narrator and point of view.

Answer 11

Speaker

Question 12

A playwright’s written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move and behave in a play.

Answer 12

Stage direction

Question 13

The rhyming pattern, meter, grammar, and imagery used by a poet to convey meaning.

Answer 13

Structure of Poem

Question 14

The author’s choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice, and tone in order to communicate with the reader.

Answer 14

Style

Question 15

Groups of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning or change it into a different kind of word, from an adjective to an adverb, etc.

Answer 15

Suffix

Question 16

To capture all of the most important parts of the original text (paragraph, story, poem), but express them in a much shorter space, and as much as possible in the reader’s own words.

Answer 16

Summarize

Question 17

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

Answer 17

Symbolism

Question 18

A word that is similar in meaning to another word (e.g. Sorrow, grief, sadness).

Answer 18

Synonym

Question 19

States a conclusion as part of the proof of the argument.

Answer 19

Circular argument

Question 20

The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.

Answer 20

Syntax