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EOG Final Exam Terms
37 cards
Question | Answer |
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1. Nonfiction | a true story |
2. Fiction | a story that is not true |
3. Fact | a statement that can be proved, such as “Mars is the fourth planet from the sun”. |
4. Opinion | a statement that reflects the writer’s belief. Ex: Mars is the most beautiful planet. |
5. Onomatopoeia | the use of words such as buzz or splash that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. |
6. Free verse | poetry that avoids repetition of the same line length, meter, or rhyme scheme from line to line. |
7. Lyric | usually song like or personal poetry |
8. Stanza | a group of poetic lines that belong together |
9. Alliteration | repeated sounds in a passage of verse. Ex: Shelly sells seashells by the seashore |
10. Imagery | consists of words and phrases that appeal to the readers’ 5 senses. Look, feel, sound, smell and taste. |
11. Speaker | imaginary person who speaks the words in the poem |
12. Simile | compares two things using the words “like” or “as”. |
13. Metaphor | calls one thing another without using “like” or “as” |
14. Personification | gives human qualities to animals, ideas, or things. |
15. Irony | a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually stated. Ex: The irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend |
16. First person point of view | point of view in which an "I" or "we" serves as the narrator of a piece of fiction |
17. Third person point of view | a form of storytelling in which a narrator relates all action in third person, using third person pronouns such as "he" or "she." |
18. Omniscient point of view | – point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of all of the characters |
19. Static character | character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story |
20. Dynamic character | the character undergoes an important, internal change because of the action in the plot |
21. Antagonist | the character who opposes the hero, or protagonist. The antagonist, when there is one, provides the story's conflict. |
22. Protagonist | the hero or narrator of the story |
23. flashback | a scene that describes an event that occurred before the time in which the main story is set. |
24. foreshadowing | a word used to describe clues about events yet to occur in a story |
25. plot | events in a story particularly rendered toward the achievement of some particular artistic or emotional effect or general theme |
26. exposition | – beginning of the plot, sets the tone, establishes the setting, introduces the characters and gives important background information. |
27. rising action | events in the plot that lead up to the climax of the story. |
28. climax | the point in the story when the conflict comes to a head, leading to a resolution. |
29. falling action | part of the plot of the story that occurs after the climax |
30. resolution | the end of the plot when all the loose ends are tied up |
31. internal conflict | a mental or emotional struggle that occurs within a character. |
32. external conflict | a struggle that occurs between a character and outside forces, which could be another character or the environment |
33. theme | - main idea, or message, of an essay, paragraph, movie, or a book. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and may be implied rather than stated explicitly |
34. mood | atmosphere is the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers. |
35. tone | attitude the writer has towards the subject that he/she is writing about. |
36. setting | the place or location where the story takes place. |
37. symbolism | any object, person, place or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger that itself, such as an idea, belief or value. |