Literature Midterm Review

The time and place of a story

The children’s song “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring” is a good example of ?

The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story

Tone and mood are usually expressed using what type of words?

important information that the audience needs to know in order to follow the main story.

When a Target employee tells a rude customer to “have a nice day” they are using?

What should go in the thrid blank?

The sentnces of a poem

the struggle or problem characters most overcome (man vs man, man vs. self, man vs. nature)

he subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

The hero of the story also known as the main character

It is the solution to the conflict in thestory the answer to the mystery, and the clearing up of the final details.

Marvel likes to use character names like Peter Parker, Sinister Six, J. Jonah Jameson, and Reed Richards

A long speech by a single character

poetry focuses on rearranging words to create a different meaning

What should go in the second blank

what happens rather than what it means.

In her song “All Too Well”, Taylor Swift sings “I’m a crumpled-up paper lying here.” This is an example of:

Mary was happy as a clam on the day of her wedding.

The villain or negative force in the story

the section of the plot beginning with the first action and the sequence of events moving to the crisis or climax.

The whole combined actions of the story/plot generally lead up to this moment.

speaker or narrator’s attitude about a subject.

What should go in the first blank?

A person who writes plays

In the movie Jaws menacing music always plays just before the shark arrives on the scene. This is an example of:

A person who oversees the entire production of the play.

The conversation between at least two characters

Which of the following is not an idiom?

What should go in the last blank?

What should go in the fourth blank?

“Hey Diddle Diddle” includes phrases like “the dish ran away with the spoon” which feature which literary device?

group of poetic lines similar to paragraphs in prose (anything not poetry)

Phrases like “Virtual Reality” and “Genuine Fake” are examples of?

circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood