Mid-term L/A
Mrs. Aaron's mid-term review sheet
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- imagery
- Picture something by using your 5 senses
- chronological order
- A sequence of events that goes in order
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating that one thing is another
- tone
- The writer's attitude towards a subject, audience, or character.
- First person
- First person narrator
- dramatic irony
- the reader knows more than the characters know
- narrative poem
- A poem that tells a story or a special event
- Simile
- A figure of speech in which things are compared using the words "like" or "as"
- connotation
- It's based an your feeling
- point of view
- related experience of the narrator
- denotation
- the words dictionary definition
- root words
- primary units of a word
- argument
- convinces the reader of something
- character
- are describe by actions and appearance
- synonym
- different words with the same meaning
- Motivation
- The reason to a character's action
- surprise ending
- unexpected, but logical ending to a story
- setting
- the time and place of a story
- external
- Man VS Man; Man VS Group; Man VS Nature/non-human
- flashforward
- The characters think ahead to a future event
- Dynamic character
- A character who changes and develop throughout the story
- Alliteration
- Repetition of words with the same beginning sounds (Polly planted plenty of pretty pansies)
- omniscient narrator
- "a person that knows it all," the narrator switches from one character's mind to another
- main idea
- the writers most important part
- Narrator
- The entity who tells the story to the reader
- theme
- the central idea or insight about life or a story
- contradiction
- two statements with opposite meanings
- context clues
- Hints at the meaning of the text; uses synonyms and antonyms
- antonym
- The opposite in the meaning
- Word analogy
- The relationship between the words in one pair matches the relationship between the words in a second pair
- ambiguity
- Allows something to be interpreted in several different and sometimes even conflicting ways
- Rhyme
- Words that have the same ending sound (The tiny bird in the tree, Was singing songs for me.)
- climax
- The part of the story that has most tension
- Resolution
- The solution or outcome to the conflict
- conflict
- A struggle or clash that drives the plot
- sensory details
- words and phrases that create imagery by using the 5 senses
- internal
- Man VS Himself; Man VS Feeling; Man VS Mind
- irony
- The expectation of an outcome are reversed and usually unexpected
- generalization
- A broad statement which apply to many situation
- mood
- the feelings of a work of literature evokes
- Foreshadowing
- Hint or clues that leads up to an future event
- pre-fix
- a word that changes the whole meaning
- suffix
- the ending of a word
- symbol
- An object, person, animal, or even an event that stands for more than itself
- epic
- A long poem that tells a story of a hero