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E1 Finals Guide_Paug
English 1 Finals Study Guide_Paugh_Spring 2018
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tone | the author/writer's attitude toward the subject |
| mood | the feeling the reader gets from a story |
| author's purpose | reason an author decides to write about a specific topic |
| dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people |
| slang | informal language; jargon; colloquial speech |
| meter | general pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| rhyme scheme | regular pattern of rhyme at the ends of lines in a poem |
| sonnet | a 14-line poem with a particular line scheme |
| iambic pentameter | "iamb" is a pattern, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. "penta" means five; 5 beats |
| foreshadowing | clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| flashback | reference an event that happened previously in the story or before it began |
| theme | central idea of a piece of literature; a universal truth |
| figurative language | expressions that are not necessarily literally true, but express meaning beyond literal level (symbolistic) |
| imagery | descriptive words and phrases that recreate a sensory experience for the reader, meaning you can "imagine" the scene using your senses |
| simile | comparison using "like" "as" "than" |
| metaphor | a comparison that does NOT use like, as, than |
| argument | taking a position to persuade others |
| support | documents or reasoning that substantiate an argument |
| setting | time, place and environment where a story takes place |
| direct characterization | writer tells readers what kind of person a character is |
| indirect characterization | process of revealing the personality of a character through the story |
| irony (verbal) | saying one thing and meaning another |
| irony (situational) | contrast between what we THINK/EXPECT to happen and what REALLY happens |
| dramatic irony | occurs when the audience/reader knows something important that the characters in a story/play don't |
| climax | the point of highest interest in a literary work |
| internal conflict | struggle that occurs within a character |
| external conflict | character v. outside force like nature, physical obstacle or another character |
| personification | endowing non-human objects or creatures with human qualities or characteristics |
| imagery | descriptive words and phrases that recreate a sensory experience for the reader/you can "imagine" the scene with your senses |
| symbolism | person, place, thing or event that stands for itself or something else |
| rupt | to break |
| sect | to cut; divide |
| tele | far; distant |
| scope | see; observe |
| script | to write |
| epi | upon, over, other |
| voc | voice; to call |
| pseudo | false |
| spire | breathe |
| thermo | caused by heat; hot |
| theo | God |
| ectomy | to cut out |
| patri | father |
| ortho | straight; correct |
| pyro | fire |
| megalo | great; large |
| mania | uncontrollable |
| dyno | power; energy; strength |
| litera | letter; literature |
| mal | bad; ill; wrong |
| geo | earth; soil; global |
| multi | much; many |
| neo | new |
| miso | hating; hatred |
| pedi | foot |
| sphere | ball |
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