Terms

Question 1

What is irony?

Answer 1

A surprise

The difference between what we expect and what actually happens

Question 2

What is suspense?

Answer 2

A tense feeling of waiting/expectation

Question 3

What is the plot?

Answer 3

A planned series of events involving a kind of tension/struggle/conflict

Question 4

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 4

A use of words whose sound imitate the sound they describe

Wow! Buzz!

Question 5

How do you answer a question properly?

Answer 5

A -answer
E -evidence
O -opinion

Question 6

What does STEAL stand for?

Answer 6

Speech 
Thoughts
Effect
Actions
Looks

Question 7

What is speech in STEAL?

Answer 7

What the character says

How they speak

Question 8

What is thoughts in STEAL?

Answer 8

What’s revealed through their feelings

Question 9

What is effect in STEAL?

Answer 9

What’s revealed through their effect on other people

Question 10

What is actions in STEAL?

Answer 10

What the character does

Question 11

What is looks in STEAL?

Answer 11

What the character looks like

Question 12

What is literal meaning?

Answer 12

A definition you would find in the dictionary

Actual definition

Question 13

What is figurative language?

Answer 13

A use of words in a way other than for their literal meanings
To compare, emphasize, or say in a new way

Question 14

What is a metaphor?

Answer 14

A comparison of 2 unlike things to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things
Indirect comparison

Question 15

What is hyperbole?

Answer 15

Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect

So tired I could sleep for years!

Question 16

What is an idiom?

Answer 16

An expression that can’t be understood from its individual words
You’re driving me up the wall!

Question 17

What is a simile?

Answer 17

When two unlike things are compared using like or as

Question 18

What is the setting?

Answer 18

The place, time, and circumstances at the time of the survey

Question 19

What is conflict?

Answer 19

The struggle which is the basis of every student

Question 20

What are the different types of conflict?

Answer 20

Person vs person
Person vs self
Person vs supernatural 
Person vs nature
Person vs technology
Person vs society

Question 21

Who is the antagonist?

Answer 21

The character that stands in opposition to the protagonist (bad)

Question 22

Who is the protagonist?

Answer 22

The main character

Usually good

Question 23

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 23

When the author gives hints earlier in the story about what will happen later

Question 24

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 24

Contradicting words that neighbour each other

Jumbo shrimp

Question 25

What is alliteration?

Answer 25

The repitition of the same constant sound | Bats bounced balls

Question 26

What is personification?

Answer 26

When non human animals or objects are given human qualities | The tree grabbed at my shirt as I ran by

Question 27

How is the plot set up?

Answer 27

``` Introduction Trigger incident Rising action Climax Falling action Conclusion ```

Question 28

What are the three types of irony?

Answer 28

Verbal Situational Dramatic

Question 29

What is the theme?

Answer 29

The central idea/message The lesson a reader is taught Has a universal meaning Usually inferred

Question 30

What is the trigger incident?

Answer 30

An event that sets conflict in motion

Question 31

What is the mood?

Answer 31

A state or quality of feeling at a particular time

Question 32

What is verbal irony?

Answer 32

When you say one thing but mean the other

Question 33

What is person vs self?

Answer 33

Struggles with conscience

Question 34

What is third person limited?

Answer 34

When the narrator tells the reader only what one character feels and what they think of other characters

Question 35

What is the rising action?

Answer 35

The events that lead to the climax

Question 36

What is situational irony?

Answer 36

A contrast between what a character expects and what really happens

Question 37

What is person vs nature?

Answer 37

Survival

Question 38

What is third person omniscient?

Answer 38

The narrator knows the thoughts of all characters in the story They see into the hearts and minds of everyone

Question 39

What is person vs person?

Answer 39

Physically or mentally

Question 40

What is first person major?

Answer 40

When a main character tells their own story

Question 41

What is a simple sentence?

Answer 41

Has one individual clause or complete thought | Has a subject and predicate and ends with a punctuation mark!

Question 42

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 42

The reader knows more than the character in the story

Question 43

What is the point of view?

Answer 43

The perspective from which a piece is written

Question 44

What is a compound sentence?

Answer 44

Has two independent clauses that are joined with a conjunction or semicolon; ends with a punctuation mark!

Question 45

What is symbolism?

Answer 45

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

Question 46

What is first person minor?

Answer 46

The story is told by a character who 'happens' to be there. Although they are involved in plot, they are made more of an observer

Question 47

What is a complex sentence?

Answer 47

Has an independent clause and a dependent clause (fragment)

Question 48

How do you write a proper paragraph?

Answer 48

Indent Make sure you have a proper topic sentence (states main idea) Provide 3 supporting details (each should be 1-2 sentences each) Add transition words!!! End with a concluding sentence (restate main idea)