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E.OG practice
Question | Answer |
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1. Nonfiction – | a true story |
2. 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 in which the narrator sees into the minds of all of 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. 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 | 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. |