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English 1 Exam
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Question | Answer |
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Scared story | myth (the bible) |
tale | hard to believe events/folkloric characters (Cinderella) |
fable | teaches a lesson; talking animals (flirtatious and the hare) |
Fractured Fairy Tale | fairy tale (shrek) |
PLOT | Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution |
Main character | story revolves around them |
minor character | helps move story along, causes conflict |
setting | where the story takes place (time, place) |
narrative poem | poem that tells a story |
narrative nonfiction | true story written like fiction |
conflict | internal- inside a characters mind external- struggle with an outside force |
the plainswoman | Williams Forrest |
the most dangerous game | connel |
marigolds | collier |
two kinds | Amy tan |
where have you gone, charming billy | Tim o Brien |
the perfect storm | junger |
the wreack of the heasperous | longfellow |
song of the open road | whitman |
the road not taken | frost |
o what is that sound | auden |
incident in a rose garden | justice |
my papa's waltz | poethke |
the writer | wilber |
theme for english b | hughes |
Anabel lee | poe |
the bells | poe |
the possiblility of evil | jackson |
the censors | valensuela |
the sniper | o flaherty |
the cask of amontillado | poe |
poison tree | william black |
fireworks | lowell |
American history | cofer |
form | distinctive way the poem is layed out made up by lines and stanzas |
rhyme | internal- word in the middle that rhymes with another word in the middle external- end ryhme |
rhyme scheme | aabbccdd |
alliteration | at the beginning of words/consonant sounds |
onomatopoeia | words that sound like what the refer to (meow, crunch, buzz) |
personification | giving human abilities to a non human object, thing, abimal |
simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
metaphor | direct comparison of 2 unlike things usually with is |
extended metaphor | exteneded compraious used for two different things |
imagery | cretaes an image |
assonance | repition of vowel sounds in non rhyming words |
consonance | int eh middle or ends of words/repition of consonance |
figurative language | language that communicates ideas yeound the meaning of words |
irony | situational- tink one thing withh happen but anyother thing does verbal- sarcasm dramatic- we know something with happen and the characters dont |
speaker | the speaker of the story |
stanza | a grouping of lines; the paragraphs of poems may have some number of lines or may vary |
suspense | excitment of tension that readers feel as they get involved in a whoty and become curious about what will happen next |
charactization | the way a writer develops a character's personality |
how is rhythem created? | through words that sound similar and som eother stuff. |
Edger allen poe is the father of | the detective story |
silver bell | christmas, happniness, snowy night |
golden bell | wedding, happniesss, moon, night |
brazen bell | warning bell, fright, moon, dark |
iron bell | funeral,sadness, fear, ghouls |