Literary Analysis

Question 1

Soliloquies/Monologues

Answer 1

Large sections of dialogue spoken by one actor

Question 2

Aside

Answer 2

Dialogue that informs audiences but is unheard by other characters

Question 3

Denouement

Answer 3

The resolution following the climax

Question 4

Setting

Answer 4

The place in which the story as a whole is set

Question 5

Time frame

Answer 5

The period in which the story is set

Question 6

Theme of a passage

Answer 6

What the reader learns from the text or the passage. The lesson or moral contained in the passage

Question 7

Themes are not usually stated explicitly meaning the reader must what

Answer 7

Figure them out by carefully reading the passage

Question 8

Themes are created through what

Answer 8

Plot development

Question 9

Conflict

Answer 9

A problem to be solved

Question 10

Man versus self (type of internal conflict)

Answer 10

Inner personal battle

Question 11

Types of external conflict

Answer 11

Man versus

Nature
Man
Society

Question 12

Syntax

Answer 12

Sentence structure. It contributes to the reader’s understanding of the text as well as to the tone and mood of a text

Question 13

Allusion

Answer 13

An uncited but u recognizable reference to something else

Question 14

Comic relief

Answer 14

The use of comedy by an author to break up a dramatic or tragic sense and infuse it with a bit of lightheartedness

Question 15

Mood

Answer 15

Story’s atmosphere or the feelings the reader gets from reading it. Writers judiciously select descriptive words to evoke certain moods.

Question 16

Tone

Answer 16

The emotions and attitudes of the writer that she or he expresses in the writing

Question 17

First person point of view

Answer 17

Narrator of the story is also the main character or the protagonist the text is written in this

Question 18

Third person point of view

Answer 18

The narrator is not a character in the story and tells the story of all the characters at the same time

Question 19

Frame narrator

Answer 19

When a narrator reports others narratives

Question 20

Objective third person versus subjective third person

Answer 20

OTP does not include what characters described are thinking or feeling while STP does

Question 21

Third person omniscient

Answer 21

Narrator knows everything about all characters including thoughts emotions and all related places times and events

Question 22

Third person limited

Answer 22

Narrador May know everything about a particular character but is limited to the character. The narrator cannot speak about anything that character does not know