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English 1 Exam
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |