Vocab

Science Fiction

• fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes

• a genre consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting.

• prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

• any book that contains unrealistic settings, or magic, often set in a medieval universe, or possibly involving mythical beings or supernatural forms as a primary element of the plot, theme, or setting.

Internal Conflict

• struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character

• a serious disagreement or argument

• psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character

External Conflict

• struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character

• a serious disagreement or argument

• psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character

Foreshadowing

• a literary term for giving human attributes to objects or animals

• a question asked in a form which does not in reality seek an answer but rather emphasizes a certain point.

• writing which appeals to the senses

• a warning or indication of (a future event)

Suspense

• a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.

• the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events.

• an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience

• a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work

Tone

• a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.

• the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events.

• an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience

• a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work

What is the "mood" of  a story?

• Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
• The time and place of the story.
• The summary of events of the story.
• The lesson the reader learns from the story.

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What kind of conflict is reflected in the following example?

"The old man's hour had come! With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once-once only" (Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart).

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

What kind of conflict is reflected in the following example?

"What could I do? I foamed-I raved-I swore. I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder-louder-louder! (Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart).

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

As you watch a movie and you become more excited, this feeling is called...

• theme
• plot
• suspense
• climax