English I- Spring Final

Question 1

bildungsroman

Answer 1

coming of age story

Question 2

mood

Answer 2

the way the author feels about the story or wants the reader to feel (for the reader)

Question 3

setting

Answer 3

time and place

Question 4

tone

Answer 4

the way the author addresses or feels about the audience (to the reader)

Question 5

syntax

Answer 5

sentence structure

Question 6

diction

Answer 6

word choice

Question 7

personification

Answer 7

when a non-person is given human traits

Question 8

epic simile

Answer 8

elaborate and lengthy simile

Question 9

epithet

Answer 9

descriptive phrases that help describe or rename a character

Question 10

chekov’s gun

Answer 10

anything placed into a story must eventually be used

Question 11

motif

Answer 11

symbols of themes

Question 12

symbol

Answer 12

something that represents or stands for something else

Question 13

conflict

Answer 13

external
-man v. man
-man v. nature
-man v. society
-man v. religion
internal
-man v. self

Question 14

allusion

Answer 14

a reference made to something else

Question 15

oracle

Answer 15

a prophet that can see the future

Question 16

characterization

Answer 16

the process in which an author describes a character and builds their personality

Question 17

dialect

Answer 17

the way a person or character speaks

Question 18

foil

Answer 18

the opposite- a character or story line established to provide contrast

Question 19

archetype

Answer 19

a pattern or model

Question 20

historical fiction

Answer 20

a genre of fiction with some basis in historical events

Question 21

still life

Answer 21

painting of inanimate objects

Question 22

dramatic poetry

Answer 22

is poetry where the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet. frequently dramatic poetry is in the form of a dialogue, where more than one character speaks

Question 23

epic poetry

Answer 23

a long, dignified, narrative poem that tells the story of a n important hero

Question 24

haiku

Answer 24

a 17 syllable poem that represents the poet’s impression of a natural object or scene written in line lengths consisting of exactly 5,7,and 5 syllables

Question 25

sonnet

Answer 25

a 14 line verse with a structure and rhyme scheme that vary by type

Question 26

petrarchan sonnet

Answer 26

14 lines=and octave and a sestet wit either AABBAABBA CDECDE or ABBAABBA CDCDCD

Question 27

ballad

Answer 27

a simple, narrative verse which tells a story; meant to be sung or recited

Question 28

elegy

Answer 28

a poem of lament as a tribute or memorial

Question 29

narrativve poem

Answer 29

a poem that tells a story

Question 30

ode

Answer 30

a serious poem of tribute to an object of importance to the poet

Question 31

free verse

Answer 31

unrhymed lines without a regular rhythm or line length

Question 32

blank verse

Answer 32

unrhymed lines with regular rhythm/ line length

Question 33

stanza

Answer 33

a stanza is like a paragraph in a poem. it contains one idea. feet make up lines and line make up stanzas. stanzas are named for the number of lines in them - 2=couplet - 3=tercet - 4=quatrain

Question 34

alliteration

Answer 34

the repetition of 2 or more initial sounds of words within a line

Question 35

allusion

Answer 35

a reference to a commonly known outside piece of literature or art

Question 36

anaphora

Answer 36

repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis

Question 37

apostrophe

Answer 37

a figure of speech in which someone not present or not human is addressed as though it could respond

Question 38

hyperbole

Answer 38

an intentional overstatement or exaggeration for effect

Question 39

idiom

Answer 39

a common usage phrase that has a different intended meaning than its literal one

Question 40

irony

Answer 40

when the words or actions are different from what is expected or intended

Question 41

dramatic irony

Answer 41

when the audience knows information that changes understand that the character do not

Question 42

situational irony

Answer 42

when the situation is the opposite or very different from the intended outcome

Question 43

verbal irony

Answer 43

when the words spoken are not meant to be understood literally

Question 44

metaphor

Answer 44

a direct comparison of to unlike things

Question 45

onomatopoeia

Answer 45

using a word whose to suggest sound

Question 46

personification

Answer 46

given human traits and characteristics to an inhuman thing

Question 47

pun

Answer 47

a play on words to draw multiple meanings from the same, or similar sounding words

Question 48

refrain

Answer 48

the repetition of one or more lines at regular intervals within a poem

Question 49

rhyme

Answer 49

the repetition of sounds within the poem

Question 50

end rhyme

Answer 50

rhyme occurring at the end of lines

Question 51

internal rhyme

Answer 51

rhyme occurring within a line

Question 52

simile

Answer 52

comparing 2 unlike things using like or as

Question 53

symbol

Answer 53

an object that represents a larger object, idea, or ideal

Question 54

synesthsia

Answer 54

a description of one sense in terms of another

Question 55

understatement

Answer 55

to intentionally downplay or diminish something for effect. the opposite of a hyperbole

Question 56

short story plot map

Answer 56

climax ^ / \ rising action / \falling action / \ Exposition/background / \ Resolution/denouement ___________________/ \________________

Question 57

canon

Answer 57

works generally accepted as classics

Question 58

dramatic personae

Answer 58

list of characters

Question 59

play structure

Answer 59

acts,scene, lines

Question 60

Romeo and Juliet (main characters)

Answer 60

``` romeo montague lady montague mercutio benvolio juliet capulet lady capulet nurse the prince tybalt friar lawrence rosaline county paris ```

Question 61

GWAPE (main characters)

Answer 61

``` Griet Pieter Pieter the son Pieter Van Ruijven Vermeer Cathrina Maria Thins Maertge Corneilia Agnes Frans Father Mother Tanneke Van Leeuwenhoek ```

Question 62

GWAPE (main themes)

Answer 62

``` bildungsroman social status expectations gender issues independence religion trust art (perception of art) truth choices who am I? ```