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Vocab Test 1
Mr. Richters vocab test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is situational irony? | A contrast between what is expected to happen and what really happens. |
| What is foreshadowing? | Use of hints and clues to indicate events that will occur later in the story. |
| What is resolution? | Falling action; after the climax; reveals the outcome and ties up base ends. |
| What is voice? | A writers unique use of language that allows a reader to "hear", a human persionality in the writing. |
| What is rising action? | Events leading up to the climax, adding complications and conflict. |
| What is a plot? | The action or sequence of events in a story. |
| What is a external conflict? | Struggle or problem between a character and an outside force (nature, another character). |
| What is a theme? | The central idea in a piece of writing. |
| What is a antagonist? | The character opposed to the hero. |
| What is a setting? | The time and place in which a story occurs. |
| What is a flashback? | A scene that interrupts the action to describe events from the past. |
| What is dramatic irony? | When readers know something that one or more characters do not know. |
| What is a genre? | A category or type of literature based on style, form, and content (novel, drama, poem). |
| What is dialogue? | Conversation carried on by characters. |
| What is a climax? | Turning point; moment of great intensity. |
| What is a prose? | Writing or speaking in the usual form (not poetry). |
| What is internal conflict? | A struggle or problem inside a character. |
| What is a protagonist? | The main character or hero. |
| Superman,Happy Gilmore,Batman, and Austin Powers are all examples of this. | Protagonist. |
| "And they all lived happily ever after." | Resolution. |
| Pop, country, rap, are examples of this. | Genre. |
| In "The Lottery," we expect the Hutchensons o be happy when they win, but instead, Tessie complains that "Its not fair!" | Situational irony. |
| The Joker, Darth Vader, Dr. Evil, Shooter McGavin,are all examples of this. | Antagonist. |
| What happens in a story is referred to this. | Plot. |
| The final fight in an action film, the dual suicide in Romeo and Juliet, and the championship game in a sports movie are all examples of this. | Climax. |
| Montagues vs. Capulets; ship vs. nature in Titanic, and Luke vs. Darth Vader are examples of this. | External conflict. |
| In a mystery, the twists in the plot that confuse the reader are called this. | Rising action. |
| Forrest Gump, the title character sits on a park bench and thinks back upon his life, this is an example of this. | Flashback. |
| Trying to choose between two worthy potential Homecoming dates are a example of this. | Internal conflict. |
| In a mystery, the reader or viewer gets hints about who committed the crime. These clues are examples of this. | Foreshadowing. |
| In the movie Miracle, the blank is Lake Placid, New York, in 1980. | Setting. |
| One blank in Romeo and Juliet is that "love is worth dying for." | Theme. |
| This is not poetry it is this. | Prose. |
| Direct quotations in a story, in the form of a conversation, are called this. | Dialogue. |
| You don't know about me without you've read a book by the name of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter. | Voice. |
| In Romeo and Juliet, we know that she is only sleeping, but Romeo thinks that she is dead. | Dramatic irony. |
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