| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Shirley Jackson | Charles (author?) |
| Shirley Jackson | The Lottery (author) |
| Saki | The Open Window (author) |
| Richard Connell | The Most Dangerous Game (author) |
| Ray Bradbury | There Will Come Soft Rains (author) |
| metaphor | compares two unlike things |
| hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| setting | time, place, description |
| falling action | leads to the resolution |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| resolution | ties everything together, ends story |
| narrative hook | part of a story that grabs the reader's attention |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| exposition | introduces, sets up the story |
| 3rd person omniscient | narrator knows thoughts and feelings of all the characters |
| static character | stays the same the whole time |
| theme | message of the story |
| personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature |
| character | someone, a personality in the story |
| 1st person | using "I" |
| sensory language | writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses |
| versimilitude | similar to the truth |
| plot | events in the story |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| round character | well developed character |
| flat character | not well developed character |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| rising action | events leading to the climax |
| dynamic character | a character who undergoes change during the story |
| climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point |
| allegory | symbolic representation |
| allusion | passing reference or indirect mention |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| 3rd person limited | the narrator is limited to the thoughts and feelings of one character |
| Narrative hook for The Open Window | When the niece tells Mr. Nuttel the scary story |
| What details in The Most Dangerous Game give it verisimilitude? | When he goes overboard and swims to the shore, an island, that is very believeable |
| What is the Significance of the title, Charles | In the story, the little boy would come home every day and talk about Charles and so it's significant because he said his name so often that it was like a known name in the family after a while. |
| What is the theme of There Will Come Soft Rains | Technology can be good or evil |
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