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Final Exam Flashcard
| 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 writers belief. Ex: Mars is the most beautiful planet. |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words such as buzz or splash the 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 down 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 a 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 and "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 to 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 the characters |
| Static Character | character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of the story |
| Dynamic Character | the character undergoes an important, internal change because of the action and the plot |
| Antagonist | the character who opposes the hero, or protagonist. The _______, when there is one, provides the story's conflict |
| Protagonist | the hero or the 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 the 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 |
| Symbolism | any object, person, place or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as an idea, belief or value |
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