Semester 1 Exam Prep

Question 1

What is fiction?

Answer 1

A narrative that may be based in fact, but has imagined elements as well.

Question 2

What is a short story?

Answer 2

A story that has one main conflict that involves characters that keep the story moving and make it interesting.

Question 3

What are the elements of fiction?

Answer 3

Characters, Setting, Plot and Theme

Question 4

What is non-fiction?

Answer 4

Text that contains factual information although the author shapes the text according to his or her point of view.

Question 5

What types of non-fiction are there?

Answer 5

biography, autobiography, essay, true-life adventures, and informative articles

Question 6

What reading strategies are used in non-fiction comprehension?

Answer 6

1. Preview the text
2. Identify the organization of the text
3. Consider the writer’s tone
4. Summarize the material

Question 7

What is the form of poetry?

Answer 7

The way the poem is laid out on the page.

Question 8

What is sound in poetry?

Answer 8

Alliteration, Onomatopoeia and Rhythm

Question 9

What is voice?

Answer 9

The speaker or narrator in the poem

Question 10

What is imagery in poetry?

Answer 10

Sight, Sound and Emotions in a poem.

Question 11

Who was Edgar Allen Poe?

Answer 11

An author who wrote during the mid-1800’s, used macabre subject matter and is credited with the genre of science fiction and mystery.

Question 12

How is story the basic principal of mind?

Answer 12

1. Gives order to the human experience
2. Explore cultural values
3. Demand an emotional response from the reader
4. Show the reader things he/she has never seen before.

Question 13

What defines the setting and introduces the characters?

Answer 13

Exposition

Question 14

What is the catalyst of the conflict?

Answer 14

Complication

Question 15

Where is the action in a story?

Answer 15

Rising Action

Question 16

What is the turning point?

Answer 16

Climax

Question 17

Which actions occur after the climax. ?

Answer 17

Falling Action and Resolution

Question 18

What is the common thread that runs through the entire piece?

Answer 18

Theme

Question 19

What are the types of conflict found in story?

Answer 19

Man vs. man, nature, society, circumstances and self

Question 20

What is metaphor?

Answer 20

A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied by analogy

Question 21

What is simile?

Answer 21

A comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ of ‘as’

Question 22

What is personification?

Answer 22

A metaphorical figure of speech in which animals, ideas, and things are represented as having human qualities.

Question 23

What is allusion?

Answer 23

An implicit reference to an historical, literary, or biblical character, event or element.

Question 24

What is irony?

Answer 24

A contradiction or incongruity between appearance or expectation and reality.

Question 25

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 25

Any clue or hint of future events in an narrative.

Question 26

In profundity, what is the physical plane?

Answer 26

What did the character do? (action)

Question 27

In profundity, what is the mental plane?

Answer 27

What was the character thinking when he/she did it? (intention)

Question 28

In profundity, what is the moral plane?

Answer 28

What was right or wrong about what the character did? (judgement)

Question 29

In profundity, what is the psychological plane?

Answer 29

What did the character get from doing what he/she did? (benefit/consequences)

Question 30

In profundity, what is the analogical plane?

Answer 30

What links are there to me, to what I have read and to my world? (comparison)

Question 31

In profundity, what is the philosophical plane?

Answer 31

What is the lesson or principle that I can learn from this story? (abstraction)

Question 32

In profundity, what is the transformational plane?

Answer 32

How can this lesson, insight or wisdom change my life? (transformation)

Question 33

Writing an analysis essay requires what?

Answer 33

- Basic writing structure - Insight to topic/question from the author - Evidence to support analysis and provide validity - Follow the form of academic writing

Question 34

What works did we read from Edgar Allen Poe?

Answer 34

The Raven, Annabel Lee and The Black Cat

Question 35

The masterpiece for Edgar Allen Poe was what?

Answer 35

The Raven

Question 36

Edgar Allen Poe died in 1849 at what age?

Answer 36

40

Question 37

What strategies are used in Close Reading?

Answer 37

1. Read Twice 2. Stop and Think 3. Highlight and take notes

Question 38

What is paradox?

Answer 38

Reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory

Question 39

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 39

A word that represents a sound

Question 40

What is a pun?

Answer 40

A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word

Question 41

What is satire?

Answer 41

Ridicule or make fun of a human vice or weakness

Question 42

What is hyperbole?

Answer 42

An exaggeration or overstatement

Question 43

What is an idiom?

Answer 43

A common word of phrase with an understood meaning different from their literal meanings

Question 44

What is an epilogue?

Answer 44

Writing at the end of a story to bring closure

Question 45

What is imagery?

Answer 45

Language that evokes one or all of the senses

Question 46

What is a flashback?

Answer 46

Action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time

Question 47

When structuring your writing, what is a Power #1 at the beginning?

Answer 47

State the thesis or topic of the essay

Question 48

When structuring your writing, what is a Power #2?

Answer 48

Provide the key points or main ideas of the author

Question 49

When structuring your writing, what is a Power #3?

Answer 49

Give details, supporting evidence or direct quotes

Question 50

When structuring your writing, what is a Power #1 at the end?

Answer 50

The ‘so what’ for the essay

Question 51

Suspense or Gothic Literature is also known as what?

Answer 51

Dark Romanticism

Question 52

What does Gothic literature focus on?

Answer 52

Death, decay and the horror within one’s mind and soul

Question 53

What are the Gothic conventions?

Answer 53

``` • Damsel in distress • Secret corridors, passageways or rooms • Ancestral curses • Ruined castles with graveyards nearby • Priests and monks • Sleep, dream, death-like states • Often set in Gothic-styled architecture – mainly castles, mansions and abbeys Setting is influential to evoke atmosphere of horror and dread ```