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English Final
Study set for my final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exposition | Introduces characters, setting, and conflict |
| Rising Action | Builds Suspense |
| Climax | The turning point in a story |
| Falling Action | Logical results of the climax |
| Resolution | Final outcomes of the story |
| Protagonist | The main character |
| Antagonist | The conflict with the main character |
| Conflict | Struggling between two or more opposing forces |
| Internal conflict | Between a character and an outside element |
| External conflict | Within the mind of the character |
| Setting | Time place ideas customs values and beliefs |
| POV | Relationship of the narrator to the story |
| Chronological order | How the events in the story are ordered |
| Flashbacks | Events from the before the beginning of the story |
| Foreshadowing | Leaves clues and hints to help the reader predict |
| Indirect characterization | When author directly states something adopt persons physical appearance |
| Direct characterization | Reader infer something about a person physical appearance |
| Situational irony | When a character or the reader expects one thing to happen but something else happens instead” |
| Verbal Irony | “when what is said is the opposite of what is meant” |
| Dramatic Irony | “when what a character knows contrasts with what the audience knows” |
| Imagery | vivid description created by sensory Lang |
| Sensory Language | specific words and phrases that appeal to the 5 physical senses |
| Mood | the atmosphere of a story how the story makes the reader feel |
| Tone | the authors attitude toward a subject how the author sound |
| Theme | The underlying message the author wants us to understand |
| Universal Theme | true in all time periods and culture |
| Stated Theme | the author says it on the text |
| Universal symbolism | symbols that are known throughout the world and mean the same thing to everyone |
| Personal symbolism | Symbols known by a single culture and do not have meaning beyond that culture |
| Implied Theme | must be inferred by the reader |