LIterary Device Quiz #4

An author should never break the rules of proper writing in order to achieve an effect or get a point across

Plots must be complex in order to create an interesting story

Fiction and nonfiction writers both invent words and phrases to fit new and unique ideas, inventions, and situations

What is this blank on the plot line?

the development of complications that create the conflict of the story

Abraham Lincoln never began a sentence with contractions because he did not have the poetic license to do so.

Poetry often disregards punctuation rules to preserve both a visual and rhythmic effect

An introduction to the characters and setting of the story (the background information)

The sequence of events that make up a story is called the

Usually the answer to a rhetorical question is...

What part of the plot is this?

What is this part of the plot line?

This type of sentence does not require an answer

Answer the question

events that lead to a conflicts resolution

What part of the plot is this?

What is this part of the plot line?

What is this part of the plot line?

Charles Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe both capitalized words in the middle of a sentence for emphasis.

What part of the plot is this?

What part of the plot is this?

Shakespeare coined a few new words and phrases, but they didn't enter as part of the english language.

the point of highest tension in a story

What is this part of the plot line?

the crisis to which the rising action has been leading

The rhetorical question is used in persuasive writing to emphasize and bolster an argument.

Incomplete sentences in a poem, such as "Mannahatta" can maintain rhythm and mood.

Most novels contain a main plot and one or more

What is this part of the plot line?

What part of the plot is this?

The plot usually involves the unfolding and solving of a