Language Arts Exam Review
Terms
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- personification
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figure of speech, a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
the gentle rain embraced her. - onomatopoeia
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words that imitate sounds
buzz hiss click - alliteration
- repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words used for emphasis
- imagery
- descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader
- blank verse
- poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- allegory
- story or tale with 2 or more levels of meaning
- allusion
- reference to a will-known person, place event, literary work, or work of art
- analogy
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comparison between 2 unlike things
An analogy describes something unfamiliar by pointing out similarities to something familiar. - protagonist
- main character in a literary work
- antagonist
- character or force in conflict with a main character ( protagonist)
- autobiography
- nonfiction - a person tells his or her own life story
- characterization
- act of creating and developing a character
- connotation
- a personal meaning to a word
- dennotation
- objective meaning of word or dictionary definition and does not involve what the word meaning brings to mind
- conflict
- struggle between opposing forces
- parts of plot
- exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution,
- dialogue
- conversation between characters
- dramatic irony
- contradiction between what the character things and what the reader or audience knows to be true
- situational irony-occurred.
- event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of everyone
- verbal irony
- word or phrase is used to suggest the opposite of its usual meaning
- essay
- may be formal or informal and is a short, nonfiction work about a particular subject
- foreshadowing
- clues or hints that suggest events that have not occurred.
- hyperbole
- exaggeration or overstatement
- journal or diary
- daily autobiographical account of events and personal reactions
- genre
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division or type of literature
poetry, prose, drama - local color
- details unique to a particular geographic area
- regionalism
- tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas
- narrator
- speaker or character who tells a story
- third person narration
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does not use I telling the story
2 kinds
1. limited 2. omniscient - Third person omniscient
- narrator "knows all" about what each character feels and thinks
- third person limited
- narrator tells thoughts and feelings of only one character and everything is viewed from this one character's perspective
- apostrophe
- figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person, or a personal quality , object , or idea. used in poetry to add emotional intesity
- satire
- writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, etc..
- setting
- time and place of the action
- symbolism
- literary movement during the 19th century that many poets turned away from realistic ideas and expressed emotion using a pattern of symbols
- theme
- central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work
- myth
- fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the causes of natural phenomena
- dialect
- form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
- round character
- character who is complex and mult-faceted, like a real person
- flat character
- character who is one-dimensional (not complicated and one sided)
- expository writing
- writing that explains
- descriptive writing
- use vivid sensory and memory details to bring subject to life
- deadpan narrator
- shows no emotion