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final exam and eog s
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nonfiction | a true story |
| fiction | a story that is not true |
| fact | a statement that can be proved,such as mars is the fourth planet from the sun |
| Opinion | a statement that reflects the writer’s belief. Ex: Mars is the most beautiful planet. |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words such as buzz or splash that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. |
| Free verse | poetry that avoids repetition of the same line length, meter, or rhyme scheme from line to line. |
| Lyric | usually song like or personal poetry |
| Stanza | a group of poetic lines that belong together. |
| Alliteration | repeated sounds in a passage of verse. Ex: Shelly sells seashells by the seashore. |
| Imagery | consists of words and phrases that appeal to the readers’ 5 senses. Look, feel, sound, smell and taste. |
| Speaker | imaginary person who speaks the words in the poem |
| Simile | compares two things using the words “like” or “as”. |
| Metaphor | calls one thing another without using “like” or “as” |
| Personification | gives human qualities to animals, ideas, or things. |
| Irony | a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually stated. Ex: The irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend. |
| First person point of view | point of view in which an "I" or "we" serves as the narrator of a piece of fiction. |
| Third person point of view | a form of storytelling in which a narrator relates all action in third person, using third person pronouns such as "he" or "she." |
| Omniscient point of view | point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of all of the characters |
| Static character | point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of all of the characters |
| Dynamic character | the character undergoes an important, internal change because of the action in the plot |
| Antagonist | the character who opposes the hero, or protagonist. The antagonist, when there is one, provides the story's conflict. |
| Protagonist | the hero or narrator of the story. |
| flashback | a scene that describes an event that occurred before the time in which the main story is set. |
| foreshadowing | a word used to describe clues about events yet to occur in a story |
| plot | the |
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