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IB English Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1st person point of view | when the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view |
| 3rd person point of view | when the narrator exists outside the events of the story, & relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the 3rd person pronouns (he, she, or they) |
| allusion | brief, but purposeful references, within a text, to a person, place, event, or other literary text |
| anagnorisis | the startling discovery that produces a change from ignorance to knowledge |
| analogy | a literary device that creates a relationship based on parallels or connections between two ideas |
| anaphora | the repetition of a word or sequence of words at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences. |
| antagonist | the opposing force that the protagonist (main character) faces |
| antithesis dialect | a rhetorical & literary device with parallel grammar structure but which establishes a nearly complete or exact opposition in ideas or characters |
| catharsis | a literary device used to simulate a release of emotions |
| chorus | a group of performers who summarized provided commentary, or participated in the action of the play |
| conflict | thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire; when a character wants something, but something else gets in the way |
| contrast | describing the difference between two or more entities |
| diction | the linguistic choices a writer makes to effectively convey an idea, point of view, or tell a story |
| episodes | an event that is part of a longer story or of history or a life, but which is viewed as complete by itself |
| foreshadowing | a plot element that hints at something to come later in the story |
| harmartia | a fatal mistake (usually used in the context of Greek tragedies) or a fatal flaw |
| hubris | excessive pride, or overconfidence |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory |
| in media res | in the middle of things; opens in the midst of the plot |
| inclusive language | language that avoids the use of certain expressions or words that might be considered to exclude particular groups of people |
| metaphor | a literary technique where one thing is compared to another by stating they share the same qualities |
| narrated action | the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience |
| non-linear plot | a story telling technique in which a narrative is told out of chronological order |
| odes | a type of lyric poetry; elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally |
| parados | the first ode, or song, sung by the chorus as it enters the stage |
| perspective | the narrator's outlook or view on events, characters, & the world |
| prologue | a separate introductory section of literary work that comes before the main narrative |
| protagonist | the character who drives the action; the character who's fate matters most |
| satire | a way of writing about a flaw or failure in society by inflating it to absurdity |
| structure | the organization of a story's various elements, including plot, characters, & themes |
| symbol | an object, person, situation, or action that has a literal meaning in the story but suggests or represents other meanings |
| tone | expresses the writer's attitude or feelings about a subject |
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