Vocab Quiz: Words 21-30

To remove offensive passages of a play, novel, etc.

• bowdlerize

• cliche

• case

A grammatical category indicating whether nouns and pronouns are functioning as the subject of a sentence (nominative case) or the subject of a sentence (objective case), or are indicating possession (possessive case).

• characterization

• coherence

• case

The reason something happens and the result of it happening. A relationship in which change in one thing causes change in another.

• character

• circumlocution

• cause and effect

A person or an animal in a story, a play, or another literary work.

• bowdlerize

• character

• cartoon

The method an author uses to reveal his/her characters and their personality traits, also called direct characterization.

• case

• character reveal

• characterization

The arrangement of events in the order in which they occur. It is also one of five text structures.

• time travel

• chronological order

• coherence

Using more words than necessary to describe something.

• circumlocution

• cliche

• chatty Kathy

A worn-out idea or overused expression.

• cliché

• cause and effect

• that's so last year

The most exciting moment of a story; contains the most action and suspense.

• character

• antonym

• climax

In writing, the clear connection of ideas in an orderly fashion.

• bowdlerize

• characterization

• coherence