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Unit 2 ELA test
11/13/23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tone | how the author feels about what there writing |
| exposition | the beginning of the story where the characters are introduced |
| climax | the most exciting part of the story right before the falling action |
| resolution | the end of the story where the conflict is resolved |
| mood | how the author makes the reader feel while reading the story |
| dominate | to control |
| reluctant | hesitant or unwilling |
| lyric poem | a poem that exposes personal emotions, |
| summary | a brief description that explains what happened in the story |
| memoir | small written part of someone's life |
| main purpose | the reason the author wrote the selection |
| action verb | ( we ran faster than the others) |
| pass tense verb | ( we sang yesterday) |
| pass perfect tense | ( they said they stood in lines for hours) |
| future perfect tense | ( I will have studied for the test beforehand) |
| present perfect tense | ( we have gone for a walk) |
| suffix "dom" | state or condition of being |
| suffix "able" | having the ability |
| suffix "ist" | a person who dose, makes, or practices |
| historical fiction | written material that contains an actual historical event |
| conflict | the main problem in a story |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant letters in writing |
| onomatopoeia | sound words |
| couplet | a stanza with two lines |
| quatrain | a stanza with four lines |
| sestet | a stanza with six lines |
| octave | a stanza with eight lines |
| denotation | the literal meaning of a word |
| connotation | feelings and associations having to do with a word |
| inference | a conclusion drawn from information given |
| irregular plural noun | nouns that do not become plural by adding es or s to them. |
| non essential elements | parts of a sentence that are not necessary |
| linking verb | ( they were gone) |