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Literary Terms

Figurative Language

Authors

Main Characters

Quotations

Potpourri

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Time, places, and culture of a story

Setting

Stage of plot that introduces characters, setting, and conflict.

Exposition

When a character struggles with another character or outside force.

External Conflict

Author or speaker’s attitude toward a subject

Tone

When readers know things that the characters in the story do not know.

Dramatic Irony

Compares two unlike items using “like” or “as”

simile

Direct use of exagerration

hyperbole

Giving inanimate objects or animals living or human traits

personification

Using language that appeals to the five sense

Imagery

Words that imitate sound (+100 for correct spelling)

onomatopoeia

Who is Gaston?

A bug in a peach

Who is the protagonist in “The Most Dangerous Game”?

Rainsford

Who is Zaroff’s foil?

Ivan

Who is the narrator in “The Cask of Amontillado”

Montresor

Montresor tells Fortunato that he considered going to someone else to ask about the Amontillado. Who does Montresor consider asking?

Luchesi

Author of “The Cask of Amontillado”

Edgar Allen Poe

Author of “The Most Dangerous Game”

Richard Connell

Author of “The Gift of the Magi”

O. Henry

Author of “The Lady, or the Tiger”

Frank R. Stockton

Author of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

James Thurber

Author of “Gaston”

William Saroyan

“Throw on the power lights! Rev her up to 8,500! We’re going through! Switch on the No. 8 auxiliary!”

Walter Mitty

“Let’s put our Christmas presents away and keep ‘em a while. They’re too nice to use as just presents.”

Jim

“Cut it off and sold it. Don’t you like me just as well, anyhow? I’m me without my hair, ain’t I?”

Della

“Remember to get those overshoes while I’m having my hair done.”

Mrs. Mitty

“The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.”

Fortunato

At the end of “Gaston,” who is the girl more like, her father or her mother?

Mother

Name one similarity between the William Saroyan and the father in “Gaston”

Divorced Lived in Paris Big mustache

Of what disease did Edgar Allen Poe’s mother, foster mother, and wife all die?

Tuberculous

From what point of view is the final section of “The Lady, or the Tiger” written?

2 nd person POV

Final Jeopardy: