English Test Worth 15%

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

Main events in a play

Question 2

Central characters

Answer 2

Main characters

Question 3

Secondary characters

Answer 3

Supporting characters

Question 4

Protagonists

Answer 4

Hero

Question 5

Antagonist

Answer 5

Villain

Question 6

Exposition

Answer 6

Story intro

Question 7

Five. Parts of a play.

Answer 7

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

Question 8

Dynamic characters

Answer 8

Characters change throughout the story

Question 9

Static characters

Answer 9

Characters that don’t change throughout the story

Question 10

Omniscient narrator

Answer 10

Knows everything

Question 11

Limited narrator

Answer 11

Knows only what the character knows

Question 12

Three tenses

Answer 12

Past present and future tense

Question 13

Setting

Answer 13

When or where the story takes place

Question 14

The five types of conflicts

Answer 14

Person versus person
person versus society
person versus nature
person versus self
person versus paranormal

Question 15

Tone

Answer 15

How the story feels to read, e.g., optimistic, worried

Question 16

Theme

Answer 16

The main point of the story, e.g. love, family, belonging, redemption

Question 17

What are the seven paragraph sentence structures?

Answer 17

1: hook
2: intro
3: exposition/explain argument background
4: argument point
5: evidence
6: explain
7: conclusion

Question 18

Allegory

Answer 18

A story used to represent a bigger idea

Question 19

Alliteration

Answer 19

A letter at the beginning of many words, e.g. peter picked a pickled peppers

Question 20

Personification

Answer 20

Giving nonhumans human qualities

Question 21

Colloquialism

Answer 21

Slang words/phrases

Question 22

Dramatic, irony

Answer 22

When the reader knows something the characters don’t know

Question 23

Euphemism

Answer 23

When something bad is said, in a nicer way

Question 24

Exposition

Answer 24

When narrators, explain something to the reader

Question 25

Flashback

Answer 25

When the story moves to a past event to give clarity to the reader

Question 26

Foreshadowing

Answer 26

When do author/filmmaker leave clues about future events?

Question 27

Hyperbole

Answer 27

When exaggeration is used

Question 28

Imagery

Answer 28

When words are used to create a picture for the reader

Question 29

Irony

Answer 29

When results contradict the original intention

Question 30

Juxtaposition

Answer 30

When 2 things contradict each other

Question 31

Motif

Answer 31

Repeating object, theme, or idea throughout text

Question 32

Onomatopoeia

Answer 32

When a sound is represented with words

Question 33

Satire

Answer 33

When social conventions are mocked to improve them

Question 34

Synecdoche

Answer 34

One apart is used to represent a whole

Question 35

Dialogue

Answer 35

Characters chatting

Question 36

Similes

Answer 36

A comparison between two things using the word like or as

Question 37

Metaphor

Answer 37

When 2 things are compared