CTT Midterm Test 3 Flashcards
Explain First Person (narrator)
An actual character in the story who uses the first person “I”
Explain First Person Peripheral (narrator)
A story teller who uses the first person I but isn’t really a character in the story.
Explain Third Person Omniscient (narrator)
The narrator knows what is in each character’s mind and knows everything that happens
Explain Third Person Limited (narrator)
The narrator sticks to the experience of one character.
What point of view is used in The Hobbit
Mostly first person peripheral.
What point of view is used in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Third Person Omniscient
What point of view is used in Bridge to Terabithia?
Third Person Limited.
What point of view is used in The Hawk and the Dove?
When Melissa is talking and her life is happening it’s first person, but when it’s a story about the monks it’s third person omniscient.
What is a pun?
A pun is a joke based on words having two different meaning(homonyms), or two different words sounding the same. (homophones)
What are some examples of puns from The Phantom Tollbooth?
Milo’s jail Sentence. Sentence=years of punishment or a group of words.
What is an idiom?
A phrase that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning.
What is an example of an idiom coming true in The Phantom Tollbooth?
People “eat there words” literally
What is foreshadowing?
when an author deliberately uses hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes that are coming.
What are four ways an author can foreshadow?
Setting a mood, someone making a prediction, appearance of objects/facts/events( like clues in a mystery) , Emphasizing an important character trait.
What is an example of foreshadowing in Bridge to Terabithia?
May Belle says “what if you die Leslie” Jesse imagines drowning during Leslie’s scuba diving essay, he feels guilty about not taking her with him and Mrs. Edmunds, these for-shadow Leslie’s death.
What is an example of foreshadowing in The Adventures Tom Sawyer?
The creepy description of the graveyard sets the mood for the murder. The death watch beetle Tom hears also for-shadows doctor Robinson’s death. The cave description says “one could easily get lost..” and that for-shadows Tom and Becky getting lost.
What is a metaphor
an imaginative comparison between two unlike items and does not include like or as.
What is a simile?
an imaginative comparison between two unlike items that includes like or as.
Have you practiced Identifying metaphors and simile yet today? ( or are about to)
hopefully YES!!
what is alliteration?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
Have you practiced identifying or making up alliteration? ( or are about to)?
Hopefully YES!!
What is irony?
The use of words to indicate the opposite of what is stated.
Give an example of irony from The Hawk and The Dove.
An example of Irony in this book is how Peregrine is given the name Columba. Peregrine looks like a hawk and has a temper like one and him being given the name of a gentle bird symbolising peace is ironic.
Give an example of irony from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The boys enter there own funeral, everyone makes them seeing better than they actually were.
