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Barrett Mid-term
Reading Mid-term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The reason or reasons that explain why characters act as they do. | Motivation |
| The people or animals who take part in a story's action. | Characters |
| The way a writer reveals a character's personality and qualities. | Characterization |
| The central message expresssed in a story. | Theme |
| The sequence of events in a short story. | Plot |
| Introduces the setting. | Exposition |
| The time and place of the story, the characters, and the basic situation. | Setting |
| Introduces the conflict. | Rising action |
| The problem of the story. | Conflict |
| The turning point of a story. | Climax |
| The part of the story when the conflict lessens. | Falling action |
| The story's conclusion. | Resolution |
| Recurring theme. | Universal theme |
| Writer describes character. | Direct characterization |
| Writer reveals the character through speech and actions. | Indirect characterization |
| The use of clues early in a story to hint at events that are going to occur later. | Foreshadowing |
| Reveals past occurrences. | Flashback |
| Surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions. | Irony |
| Gives a story a more authentic feel. | Dialect |
| Optional course. | Elective |
| Spanish gestures of greeting between friends. | Raza-style |
| Spanish word for "man" | Ese |
| Make an unpleasant expression by contradicting and lowering the corners of the mouth. | Scowl |
| Belief. | Convicvtion |
| Region in northern Asia known for its harsh winters. | Siberia |
| French for "Hello"; "Good Day". | Bonjour |
| A thin, flat, round cake made of cornmeal or flour and cooked on a griddle. | Tortilla |
| A celebration or holiday. | Fiesta |
| A brief nap or rest taken after the noon meal. | Siesta |
| French for "Very well. Do you speak French?" | Tres bien. Parlez-vous francais? |
| French for "The boat is on the water." | Le bateau est sur I'eau |
| A disease in which the joints swell painfully, and gradually break down. | Inflammatory rheumatism |
| Serious; somber | Solemn |
| Produces an effect upon; causes a change. | Affects |
| A great rise or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow. | Freshet |
| The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed symbols. | Assonance |
| The repitition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables. | Consonance |
| The use of words that imitate sounds. | Onomonopoeia |
| The repitition of sounds at the ends of words. | Rhyme |
| The rhythmical pattern in a poem. | Meter |
| Poetry that tells a story in verse. | Narrative |
| A three-line Japanese verse form. | Haiku |
| Poetry that is defined by its lack of strict structure. | Free verse |
| Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. | Lyric |
| Song-like poems that tell a story. | Ballads |
| Shaped to look like subjects. | Concrete |
| Verses. | Stanzas |
| Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally. | Figurative language |
| Describe one thing as if it were something else. | Metaphors |
| Gives human qualities to something that is not human. | Personification |
| Use like or as to compare two apparently unlike things. | Similies |
| Anything that represents something else. | Symbol |
| Enhances a poem's mood and meaning. | Sound device |
| The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words. | Alliteration |
| The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence-more than once. | Repetition |
| Humorous, rhyming, five line poems. | Limericks |
| Pairs of rhyming lines. | Rhyming couplets |
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