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Final Exam Review1
Question | Answer |
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Nonfiction | A true story |
Fiction | A story that is not true. |
Fact | A Statement that can be proven. Ex Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. |
opinion | A statement that reflects the writer beliefs. Ex Mars is the most beautiful planet. |
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 five senses. Look, feel, smell, see, and sound. |
Speaker | Imaginary person who speaks the words in a poem. |
Simile | Compares two things using like or as. |
Metaphor | Calls one thing another without using like or as. |
Personification | Gives human qualities to animals,ideas or objects. |
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 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 in 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 goes through an important internal change because of the action in the plot. |
Antagonist | The person who opposes the hero or the protagonist. The antagonist when their is one provides the story's conflict |
Protagonist | The hero or narrator in 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 the story. |
Plot | events in a story particularly rendered toward the achievement of some particular artistic or emotional effect or general theme. |
Rising Action | Events in the plot that led up to the climax of the story. |
Climax | The point in the story when the conflict comes to an end leading up to the resolution |
Falling Action | part of the plot of the story that occurs after the climax. |
Resolution | The end of the plot where all the loose ends are tied up. |
Internal Conflict | A mental or emotional struggle 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 or 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. |