Midterm

Question 0

Allusion

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Reference to the person, event, or work outside the literary piece

Question 1

Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Question 2

Antagonist

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A person who opposes the protagonist (bad guy)

Question 3

Aside

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Comments characters make to each other or audience that others do not hear

Question 4

Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds

Question 5

Character (flat)

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Few personality traits

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Character (round)

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Many personality traits

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Character (dynamic)

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Develops throughout story

Question 8

Character (static)

Answer 8

Does not change

Question 9

Characterization (direct)

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Narrator or a character in story tells us about a character

Question 10

Characterization (indirect)

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We find out about a character through comments and actions

Question 11

Conclusion

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The ending, all things are resolved

Question 12

Conflict (all four types)

Answer 12

Struggle between opposing forces, man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, man vs. society

Question 13

Conjunction

Answer 13

A word used to connect clauses of sentences, (ex. and, but, or)

Question 14

Connotation

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An idea or feeling a word gives in addition to its literal meaning

Question 15

Contraction

Answer 15

A shortened form of a word or words with the omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe

Question 16

Denouement

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Final part of the story in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are resolved (aka resolution)

Question 17

Dialogue

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Conversation between two or more people

Question 18

Diction

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Style of speaking or writing, tone (aka vocabulary)

Question 19

Elision

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The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve meter of poetry, ex. Th’ expense…

Question 20

Exposition

Answer 20

Part that provides background info needed to understand characters and action, aka introduction

Question 21

Falling action

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After climax is reached and conflict resolved

Question 22

Figurative Language

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Tool that helps readers visualize what is happening

Question 23

Dramatic foil

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A character who is intended to contrast another

Question 24

Hyperbole

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Exaggerating for emphasis

Question 25

Imagery

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Mental pictures reader experiences that literature paints

Question 26

Irony (situational)

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Events in story are different than what is expected

Question 27

Irony (dramatic)

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Reader knows more than characters

Question 28

Irony (verbal)

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Figure of speech; speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what is said

Question 29

Metaphor

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Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

Question 30

Monologue

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is a speech given by a single person, other characters can hear

Question 31

Mood

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Feeling the reader experiences while reading aka atmosphere, ex. feel scared because of tone

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Motif

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Reoccurring image, idea, or symbol that develops theme, can be symbol

Question 33

Narrations (first person)

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Narrator is telling the story about him or herself

Question 34

Narrations (third person omniscient)

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Narrator is not involved in story, knows everything

Question 35

Narrations (third person limited)

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Narrator is not involved in the story, only knows about certain characters/events

Question 36

Oxymoron

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A combination of two words that appear contradictory ex. Jumbo shrimp

Question 37

Paradox

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Situation or phrase that appears to be contradictory but contains a truth worth considering (in order to preserve peace, we must prepare for war)

Question 38

Paraphrase

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To rephrase in own words

Question 39

Personification

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Attributing human qualities to non-human things

Question 40

Prose

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Without structure

Question 41

Protagonist

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Lead character, most prominent

Question 42

Simile

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Comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Question 43

Soliloquies

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Speeches in which characters think out loud, alone on stage, voice inner thoughts just for audience

Question 44

Stanza

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A group of lines in reoccurring metrical unit, poetry paragraph

Question 45

Symbol/Symbolism

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Representing abstract concepts ex. Mockingbird

Question 46

Theme

Answer 46

Concept explored in work; insight about life it communicates

Question 47

Tone

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How the author treats subject, contributes to mood, how talks, dark, mysterious

Question 48

In-text citation

Answer 48

Quick citation put in text immediately after a direct quote, fact/statistic, paraphrasing, or borrowed idea. (Authors last name page #) ex. (Golding 23)

Question 49

A work cited page should be organized_____________

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Alphabetically by author's last name, if no author its by title

Question 50

Top left of page contains

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Your name Teachers name Class and block Date (14 September 2015)

Question 51

Top right of page contains

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Last name and page number (Barbosa 21)

Question 52

Title of novel or book should be...

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Italicized, only underlined when hand written

Question 53

Title of poem should be...

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In quotations

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Title of short story should be...

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In quotations

Question 55

Title of an article should be...

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In quotations

Question 56

Title of newspaper or magazine...

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Is underlined

Question 57

``` Page formatting Margins- Font- Spacing- Title- Paragraph indentations ```

Answer 57

``` 1 inch margins Times new roman, size 12 Double spaced Title of paper not italicizes, underlines, bolded etc. Indent first line of every new paragraph ```

Question 58

Onomatopoeia

Answer 58

Use of words to imitate the sounds they describe