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Literature midterm study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the reason or reasons that explain why characters act why they do called? | motivation |
| What do you call it when the writer describes the character? | direct characterization |
| What is it called when the writer reveals the character through speech and actions? | indirect characterization |
| What is a recurring theme, or a message about life that is expressed in different cultures and time periods? | universal theme |
| What is the sequence of events in a short story called? | exposition |
| What is the name for the time and place of a story, characters, and basic situation? | setting |
| What is the part in a story that introduces the conflict? | rising action |
| what is the problem in a story called? | conflict |
| What is the turning point of a story called? | climax |
| In the story "Ribbons", where did the grandmother come from? | Hong-Kong |
| What is the part of a story when the conflict lessens? | falling action |
| What is the story's conclusion called? | resolution |
| What is the use of clues early in a story to hint at events that are going to occure later called? | foreshadowing |
| What is the placement of a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to reveal past occurences? | flashback |
| What are the people or animals who take part in a story's action? | characters |
| What is the way a writer reveals a character's personality and qualities? | characterization |
| Who is the main character of "Lemon Brown"? | Greg |
| How does Victor try to express Theresa on the first day of school? | he pretends he knows French |
| What do you call the central message expressed in a story? | theme |
| What is the sequence of events in a short story? | Plot |
| What are the tools writers often used to enhance their writing? | Literary Devices |
| What is another word for verses? | stanzas |
| What is writing or speech not meant to be taken literally? | figurative language |
| What describes one thing as something else? | metaphors |
| What gives human qualities to something that is not human? | personififcaton |
| What use "like" or "as" to compare two apparently unlike things? | similes |
| What is anything that represents something else? | symbols |
| What enhances a poems mood and meaning? | sound devices |
| What is the repetition of constant sounds in the beginning of words? | alliteration |
| What is the use of any element of language? | repetition |
| What is the use of words that immitate sounds? | ONOMATOPEIA |
| What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words? | rhyme |
| What tells a story in verse? | narrative |
| What is a three line japanes verse form? | Haiku |
| What is defined by it's lack of strict structure? | free verse |
| What expresses thoughts and feelings of a single speaker? | lyric |
| What are songlike poems that tell a story? | ballads |
| What are shaped to look like their subjects? | concrete |
| What are five line poems with a specific rythmic pattern? | limericks |
| What are pairs of rhyming lines? | rhyming couplets |
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