Literary Vocabulary Jeopardy by Tyler Hassell
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Testing your vocab skills in english
Topics of this game:
- The way an author or another character within the story describes or reveals a character, through the use of descriptive adjectives, epithets, or phrases.
- The dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story.
- A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
- The process by which the writer shows the character's personality through speech, actions and appearance
- May be to amuse the reader, to persuade the reader, to inform the reader, or to satirize a condition
- allow you to draw your reader into the story and make them feel like they’re part of the action because the narrator is speaking directly to them.
- Both the time and geographic location within a narrative, either nonfiction or fiction.
- The author is narrating a story about the characters and refers to them with the third person pronouns “he/she.”
- To or toward the side
- This is generally revealed by the “I” sentence construction and relies on first person pronouns.
- An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
- The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
- An exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
- Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
- A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
