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English Exam
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | reference to someone or something known from history, literature, etc. |
| Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statment that makes a wise observation about life |
| Characterization | writer reveals personality of a character |
| Indirect Characterization | put clues together to infer what a character is like |
| Direct Characterization | writer tells us directly about the character |
| Flat Character | few personality traits |
| Static Character | does not change much in the story |
| Round Character | more dimensions to their personalities |
| Dynamic Character | changes in some important way as result of the story's action |
| Plot | series of related events in story or play (story line) |
| Exposition | something explained or "set forth" |
| Rising Action | refers to all actions before the turning point |
| Climax | just before the ending, highest point in story |
| Falling Action | all the action after the turning point |
| Resolution/ Denouement | story's problems are all resolved and story ends |
| Conflict | struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story |
| Couplet | tow consecutive rhyming lines of peotry |
| Essay | short piece of nonfiction prose in which writer discusses some aspect of a subject |
| Figure of Speech | word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and aren't taken literally |
| Foil | character who acts as a contrst to another character |
| Foreshadowing | use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot |
| Free Verse | peotry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Foot | metrical unit of poetry |
| Iamb | metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| Imagery | use of language to evoke a picture, or concrete sensation of a person, thing, place or experience |
| Tone | attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the character in it, or the audience |
| Juxtaposition | side by side or close together |
| Metaphor | comparison between two things without using like or as |
| Meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Myth | traditional story that is religious in nature and explains a belief or ritual |
| Octave | eight line poem, or first eight lines of an Italian sonnet |
| Oxymoron | combines opposite terms |
| Paradox | appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth |
| Personification | gives an object or animal human characterstics |
| Point of View | vantage point from which the writer tells a story |
| Protaganist | central character who initates or drives the action |
| Antaganist | opponent who struggles against hero, or protaganist |
| Rhyme Scheme | pattern of rhymes in a poem |
| Sestet | six lindes of poetry, usually at the end of an Italian sonnet |
| Setting | time and location where story takes place |
| Simile | comparison using like or as |
| Sonnet | fourteen line poem |
| Style | diestinctive way that a writer uses language |
| Symbolism | leterary movement where writers rearranged world of appearences to reveal more truthful version of reality |
| Theme | insight about human life that is revealed in literary work |
| Archetype | the prototype or first model of something |
| Motif | recurring theme or idea |
Created by:
Logan Gilmer
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