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Lit. Midterm 2014
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Effect is a... | noun- The effect of... |
| affect is a... | verb |
| me is a(n)______ pronoun | objective |
| I is a(n)_______ pronoun | subjective |
| A Lot | 2 words and means many |
| It's | Means it is or it has |
| Its | possessive |
| Bad is a _____ describing a _____ | adjective; noun |
| Badly is a _____ describing a ______ | adverb; action verb |
| If you say that you could care less means... | means that you actually cares |
| If you say that you couldn't care less means.. | means that you can't care more than you already do |
| Lose means... | to be defeated or to misplace something |
| Loose means... | not tight or secure |
| Good is an _______ meaning _____ | adjective; fine |
| well is an ________ meaning ________ | adverb; skillfully |
| alliteration | the repetition of a beginning sound in neighboring words |
| dialogue | a conversation between 2 characters |
| Figurative language | language where words and phrases have more than a literal or concrete meaning |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which great exaggeration is used |
| metaphor | a comparison of two things without using like or as |
| onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which the sound of the word imitates the sound associated with it |
| personification | a figure of speech where human qualities are given to inanimate objects |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as |
| flashback | a technique where the author bring the reader back in time |
| imagery | writing that helps the reader hear, see, taste, smell, or feel something |
| repetition | repeating words and/or lines for emphasis |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem usually indicated by assigning a different letter to each end sound |
| rhyme | the sense of movement made through a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| style | the way that the author expresses their idea and created a certian effect |
| theme | the central idea or message in a literary work |
| tone | overall feeling created by the author |
| Shakespeare was born on ... | April 23,1564 |
| he died on... | April 23, 1616 |
| grew up in... | Stratford-upon-Avon, England |
| left school by age of... | 15 |
| At the age of__, he married ______________ | 18; Anne Hathaway |
| he had 3 children named... | Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet |
| Lost son ______ at age__ to the ____________ | Hamnet; 11; Bubonic Plague |
| Public theaters were closer in ____ for _ years | 1592; 2 |
| Became part of the ___ _______ built in ____ and then it burned down in ____ | Globe Theater; 1599; 1613 |
| His works included ___ sonnets, _ epic book length poems and __ plays | 154; 2; 38 |
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