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Kelly's Lit Stack
Reading Midterm Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the two types of characterization | Direct and Indirect Characterization |
| What is theme | Central message expressed in a story |
| What is the life message that is expressed in different cultures and time periods | Universal Theme |
| In the story "ribbons" where did the grandma come from | Hong Kong |
| How would you describe Mr. Buler in the story "Seventh Grade" | Understanding |
| In the poem "Loo-Wit" what happens to her while she is sleeping | They were kicking her sides down |
| Who is the main character in "The Bear Boy" | Kuo-Haya |
| What inntroduces the setting | Exposition |
| What is the time and place of the story, the characters, and the situation. | Setting |
| What introduces the conflict or problem | Rising Action |
| How does Rikki-tikki-tavi feel after he killed Karait | Proud |
| Who's the main character in "Lemon Brown" | Greg |
| What is the turning point of a story | Climax |
| What is the part of a story when the conflict lessens | Falling action |
| What does Stacy want to go back to doing once her grandma came to her house | Dancing |
| What is the story's conclusion | Resolution |
| What is the use of clues early in a story to hint at events that are going to occur later | Foreshadowing |
| Why does Greg prefer to go to the tenement the n going home | It is calm and his father doesn't yell at him because of his grades |
| What is the mood of the story when it is raining in the "Lemon Brown" | Sad and gloomy |
| What is the difference between Greg's reaction to the thieves then Lemon Brown | Lemon Brown is using courage while Greg is some what scared |
| What is the placement of a scene within a story that interrupts the events to reveal occurnces | Flashback |
| What is the general name given to techniques that involve contradictions. Example-amusing | Irony |
| What is the form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group | Dialect |
| What are poems that are usually divided into lines then grouped | Stanzas |
| What is writing or speech not meant to be taken literally | Figurative Language |
| What descibes one thing as if it were something else | Metaphor |
| What gives human qualities to something that is not human | Personification |
| What uses LIKE or AS to compare two apparently unlike things | Simile |
| What is anything that represents something else | Symbol |
| What enhances a poem's mood and meaning | Sound Devices |
| What is the repitition of constant sounds in the beginning of words | Alliteration |
| What is the useb of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase,clause, or sentence-more than once | Repetition |
| What is the repetition of vowel sounds followed bydifferent consonants in stressed syllables as in "blade and maze" | Assonance |
| What is the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables like "wind and sand" | Consonance |
| What is the use of words that imitate sounds | Onomatopoeia |
| What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words | Rhyme |
| What is the rhythmical pattern in a poem | meter |
| What is poetry that tells a story in verse | Narrative poetry |
| WHat is a three-line Japenense verse form that the first and third line are 5 syllables and the second line has 7 syllables | Haiku |
| What poetry is defined by by its lack of strict structure | Free Verse |
| WHat poetry expresses thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in musical verse | Lyric |
| What are songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance | Ballads |
| What poems are shaped to look like their subjects | Concrete |
| What are humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific ryhme pattern or scheme | Limerick |
| What are pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length | Rhyming Couplets |
| What is unsheduled or unplanned | Impromptu |
| What is slightly open | Ajar |
| What is hesitently or with uncertainty | Tentatively |
| Showing shyness | Timid |
| Process by which one becomes a member of a group | Initiation |
| failed to take care of | Neglected |
| Came back to consciousness | Revived |
| A great deal or very much | Immensely |
| Something that comforts a disappointed person | Consolation |
| Optional course | Elective |
| Make an unpleasant expression by contracting the eyebrows and lowing the the corners of the mouth | scowl |
| Belief | Conviction |
| Serious or somber | Solemn |
| Produces an effect on; causes a change | Affects |
| Great musician | Maestro |
| Giving off light | Luminous |
| Curving motion | Swerve |
| Speak | Utter |
| Small mammal that eats rats, mice, birds, and eggs | Weasel |
| Dig a hole for shelter | Burrow |
| Stoops or bends low | Crouches |
| Become untangled or seperated | Unravel |
| Force form a position or place | Dislodge |
| Tough and strong | Sinewy |
| Strong and muscular | Brawny |
| Upper legs and hips | Haunches |
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