Untitled Deck

Question 1

What is Internal Conflict?

Answer 1

A conflict within the mind of a character who is torn between opposing feelings or between different courses of action.

Question 2

What is Man vs. Self?

Answer 2

An internal conflict within a character, where aspects of his or her personality (emotional, intellectual, or moral) may struggle for dominance.

Question 3

What is External Conflict?

Answer 3

A conflict between a character and an outside force, such as another character, nature, or society.

Question 4

What is Man vs. Man?

Answer 4

An external conflict between two characters.

Question 5

What is Man vs. Nature?

Answer 5

An external conflict between a character and some natural obstacle or natural condition.

Question 6

What is Man vs. Society?

Answer 6

An external conflict between a character and a social force or condition produced by society, such as poverty, political revolution, or a set of values.

Question 7

What is a Dynamic Character?

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A dynamic character changes as a result of the story’s events.

Question 8

What is a Flat Character?

Answer 8

A flat character has only one or two traits, and there is no depth.

Question 9

What is a Round Character?

Answer 9

A round character is like a real person who has many different traits. Sometimes these traits contradict each other.

Question 10

What is a Static Character?

Answer 10

A static character is one who does not change much in the course of the story.

Question 11

What is a Flashback?

Answer 11

Scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier event.

Question 12

What is Imagery?

Answer 12

Language that appeals to the senses.

Question 13

What is a Motif?

Answer 13

An object, phrase, idea or concept that appears repeatedly throughout a literary work. It helps reinforce the main idea an author wants to emphasize.

Question 14

What is a Metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without using the words like or as.

Question 15

What is First Person?

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Uses ‘I’ pronoun - from the perspective of the main character.

Question 16

What is Third Person?

Answer 16

Uses ‘He/she/they’ pronouns.

Question 17

What is Third Person Limited?

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Focuses on one character only.

Question 18

What is Third Person Omniscient?

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All-knowing narrator.

Question 19

What is an Unreliable Narrator?

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A narrator whose credibility has been compromised.

Question 20

What is a Symbol?

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An image.

Question 21

What is Symbolism?

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The use of a person, place, thing, or event to represent an idea or quality.

Question 22

What is a Simile?

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Figurative of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as.

Question 23

What is Theme?

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The central message of a literary work. It is the main idea and gives an insight into human nature.

Question 24

What is Diction?

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A writer’s or speaker’s distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression in a piece of writing such as a poem or story.

Question 25

What is Mood?

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The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the readers.

Question 26

What is Tone?

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The writer’s attitude toward the material and/or readers.

Question 27

What is Foreshadowing?

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A narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

Question 28

What is Dialogue?

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The conversation between characters.

Question 29

What is Scenery?

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Hangings, draperies, structures, etc., used on a stage to represent a locale or furnish decorative background.

Question 30

What is Pantomime?

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A play or form of entertainment in which the performers express themselves mutely by gestures, often to the accompaniment of music.

Question 31

What is Breaking the fourth wall?

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Acknowledging and/or speaking directly to the audience.

Question 32

What is Juxtaposition?

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The placement of two or more things side by side, often in order to emphasize their differences.

Question 33

What is a Paradox?

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A statement that seems like a contradiction but actually reveals a truth.

Question 34

What is an Allusion?

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A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that adds greater meaning to the piece of literature.

Question 35

What is Personification?

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Giving an inanimate object human characteristic.

Question 36

What is Onomatopoeia?

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A word that sounds like what it describes, such as buzz, splash, or meow.

Question 37

What is Syntax?

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The agreement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language.

Question 38

What is Alliteration?

Answer 38

The repetition of initial constant sounds. (Peter Pipper or Kid’s Coats)

Question 39

What is MLA format?

Answer 39

Times New Roman, 12 point font, Double spaced, 1-inch margins, Hanging indent on works cited citations.

Question 40

What is Embedding quotes?

Answer 40

“Here’s a direct quote” (Smith 8).

Question 41

What is MLA in-text citation?

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Uses the author’s last name and the page number from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken, for example: (Smith 163).

Question 42

What is A Separate Peace about?

Answer 42

Gene finds a separate peace within himself. Gene finds a peace that is enough to comfort him. The ways in which time and maturity can change a person’s perspective on the past. All humans create enemies for themselves and go to war against them.

Question 43

What is Our Town about?

Answer 43

The phrase, “An ordinary day” is significant because it is showing repetition and importance of somethings staying the same every day. An ordinary day flies by without our noticing it. Wilder ponders whether human beings truly appreciate the precious nature of a transient life.

Question 44

What is Of Mice and Men about?

Answer 44

The poet regrets accidentally destroying a mouse’s nest. The poem resonates with several of “Of Mice and Men’s” central themes: the impermanence of home and the harshness of life for the most vulnerable. The nature of poverty, the death of the American Dream, and the lack of control that individuals have over their own lives.