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Final Exam MinkleyRE
Question | Answer |
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Nonfiction | A true story |
Fiction | A story that is not true |
Fact | A statement that can be proved su |
Opinion | A statement that reflects the writer's belier. Ex: The most beautiful planet. |
Onomatopoeia | the use of words such as buzz or splash that imitate the sounds associated with the object or actions they refer to. |
Free Verse | Poetry that avoids repetition of the same line length, meter, or rhyme scheme from line to line. |
Lyrics | Usually song like or personal poetry |
Stanza | a group of poetic lines that belong together |
alliteration | Repeated sounds in a passage of verse. Ex: Shells 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 used the words "like" or "as" |
Metaphor | calls one thing another with out 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: She said "How nice!" when i told her i had to week all weekend. |
First 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 veiw in which the narrator sees into the minds of all the characters |
Static Character | character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story |
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. |
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 | Events in a story particularly rendered toward the achievement of some particular artistic or emotional effect or general theme |
exposition | beginning of the plot sets the tone, establishes, the setting, introduces the characters and gives important background information |
Rising action | events in the plot that lead up to the climax of the story |
climax | the point in the story when the conflict comes to a head, leading to a resolution |
falling action | part of the plot of the story that occurs after the climax |
resolution | the end of the plot when all the loose ends are tied up |
Internal conflict | a mental or emotional struggle that occurs within a character. |
External Conflict | – a struggle that occurs between a character and outside forces, which could be another character or the environment |
Theme | main idea, or message, of an essay, paragraph, movie, or a book. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and may be implied rather than stated explicitly |
Mood | atmosphere is the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers. |
Tone | attitude the writer has towards the subject that he/she is writing about. |
Setting | - the place or location where the story takes place. |
Symbolism | – any object, person, place or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger that itself, such as an idea, belief or value |