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ELA 9 Midterm Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Character | A person, animal, or presence in a literary work |
| Static Character | Stays the same |
| Dynamic Character | Changes |
| Characterization | The process of revealing or describing the personality of a character |
| Direct Characterization | The writer makes direct statements about the characters personality |
| Indirect Characterization | The writer requires the readers to draw their own conclusions about a character based on evidence from the story |
| Conflict | A serious disagreement or argument, typically, a protracted one |
| Internal Conflict | Psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character |
| External Conflict | Struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character |
| Setting | The time and place of a story or play |
| Foreshadowing | The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot. It is used to build suspense and sometimes anxiety in the reader or viewer. |
| Point of View | A particular attitude or way of considering a matter |
| First Person Point of View | A narrative point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time |
| Third Person Limited Point of View | The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character |
| Third Person Omniscient Point of View | A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story |
| Imagery | A language that appeals to the senses. Most images are visual-that is, they create pictures in the readers mind by appealing to the senses of sound, touch, taste, and/or smell. |
| Tone | The choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject |
| Mood | A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes. It is often created by a story's setting. |
| Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing |
| Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |
| Denotation | The literary or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests |
| Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable |
| Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form |
| Irony | The contrast between expectation and reality-between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true |
| Symbol | A literary device that contains several layers of meaning |
| Symbolism | The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities |
| Motif | A decorative design or pattern |
| Theme | The subject of a talk, a piece of meaning, a persons thoughts, or an exhibition, a topic |
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