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H-Midterm Review 1
ELA Honors 10 Midterm Review PART1 LITERARY TERMS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
| Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education; a coming of age story |
| Central Idea | the main idea or point of the story; usually one or two words; what the author wants the reader to take away from the text overall (ex. Friendship, brotherhood, love) |
| Conflict | a problem within the story; this could be internal or external and also man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, or man vs. society/world |
| Characterization | the description of characters in a book, either physically or emotionally |
| Climax | the turning point of a text (when do things start to change) |
| Dystopia | an imagined place where everything is unpleasant and bad |
| Epic | a long poem, typically from ancient oral tradition |
| Flashback | a scene that has taken place in the past of the story |
| Foreshadowing | a warning or indication of a future event |
| Genre | a category of literature based on the subject matter of the text |
| Hubris | A dangerous amount of overconfidence. |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| Imagery | creating a vivid picture in the mind by using intense adjectives and language |
| Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite (ex. The firetruck is on fire) |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech which compares two unlike things to each other without using the words “like” or “as” |
| Monologue | a long speech carried out by one person/character, often in a play |
| Mood | the way an author wants you to feel from a text |
| Motif | a distinct feature or dominant idea repeated throughout a text |
| Point of view | the perspective that a story is being told from; first person=the narrator is in the story; third person=the narrator is outside the story and uses he/she/they) |
| Repetition | repeating something more than once to emphasize a point |
| Resolution | the ending action of a story where the main problem has been solved |
| Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
| Static/Flat Character | A character that undergoes little to no change in a story. |
| Symbolism | the use of a symbol to stand for something more important in a text |
| Theme | the subject of a text that is repeated throughout and can be referenced throughout the text (ex. Treat others as you want to be treated) |
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