What someone thinks about something.

The sentennce that states the purpose of your paper.

Is an opening sentence to a body paragraph that supports the thesis.

A quote that you get right from another source.

The writer's atitude toward his or her audience and subject.

Directs the type and amount of information the writer reveals.

A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage.

A technique that is used to interrupt a serious part of a literary work by a introduction of a humorous character or situation.

Is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true.

Is in a play a speech by one character that is addressed to another character or characters.

A combination of words, that contradicts each other.

Is a pair of rhyming lines, usally of the same length and meter.

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

Putting someone elses words in your own words.

Tells what your story is about.

Involves a character in conflict with himself or herself.

The main character struggles against an outside force.

Refers to an author's choice of words.

The form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group.

Is a conversation between characters that may reveal their traits and advance the action of a narrivtive.

Refers to an author's unique way of writing.

Is prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

Is prose writing that presents and explains ideas or the tells about real people, places, ideas, or events.

The general term for literary techniques that portary differences between appearence and reality or expectation and result.

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

Is the writer's attitude toward his of her audience and subject.

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English Exam 2009

Question	Answer
Opinion	What someone thinks about something.
Thesis Statement	The sentennce that states the purpose of your paper.
Topic Sentence	Is an opening sentence to a body paragraph that supports the thesis.
Commentary	An opinion about the CD's.
Concrete Detail	A quote that you get right from another source.
Contraction	Two words out together.
Tone	The writer's atitude toward his or her audience and subject.
Point of View	Directs the type and amount of information the writer reveals.
Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage.
Comic Relief	A technique that is used to interrupt a serious part of a literary work by a introduction of a humorous character or situation.
Dramatic Irony	Is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true.
Monologue	Is in a play a speech by one character that is addressed to another character or characters.
Oxymoron	A combination of words, that contradicts each other.
Couplet	Is a pair of rhyming lines, usally of the same length and meter.
Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
Paraphrasing	Putting someone elses words in your own words.
Thesis Statement	Tells what your story is about.
Internal Conflict	Involves a character in conflict with himself or herself.
External Conflict	The main character struggles against an outside force.
Diction	Refers to an author's choice of words.
Dialect	The form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group.
Dialogue	Is a conversation between characters that may reveal their traits and advance the action of a narrivtive.
Style	Refers to an author's unique way of writing.
Anticlimax	Is a turning point ina story.
Fiction	Is prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
Non-fiction	Is prose writing that presents and explains ideas or the tells about real people, places, ideas, or events.
Irony	The general term for literary techniques that portary differences between appearence and reality or expectation and result.
Mood	The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
Tone	Is the writer's attitude toward his of her audience and subject.

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