Unit 2: Analysis

The image of an empty house set in the woods creates a feeling of

When the reader knows more than the characters know, the story contains

A narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualitites.

When characters say one thing but mean the opposite, they are using

The function of a symbol is to stand for something beyond itself.

The mood of a literary work is

Occurs when there is a contrast between what we expect will happen and what actually occurs.

Both metaphors and similes

A story's theme consists of a subject or a topic.

Describing a puppy as "playful" rather than "disobedient" suggests a tone that is

Which of the following has the most negative connotations?

A theme of a literary work may recur in literature from different cultures and historical periods.

A writer's style includes sentence structure, subject matter, figures of speech, and word choice.

Words spoken by a character to the audience or to another character; not supposed to be heard by the other characters.

Personification occurs when people are described as animals.