ELA B10- Final Review Flashcards
Repetition/anaphora
Define: Involves using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech.
Example: “I have a dream” (Martin Luther King “I Have A Dream” speech)
Effect: Provides clarity and emphasis deeper meanings in the text.
Verbal Irony
Define: Where a person says one thing but means the opposite, expressing humour, anger, or frustration.
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Effect: Creates suspense, tension, or a comic effect.
Dramatic Irony
Define: When the reader or audience knows something but the character in the story doesn’t.
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Effect: Creates tension and suspense.
Situational Irony
Define: The irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected.
Example:
Effect: Create a more relatable situation or character within literature.
Foreshadowing
Define: A storyteller gives a hint of what is to come later in the story.
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Effect: Makes your reader wonder what will happen next, and keeps them reading to find out.
Tone
Define: The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a certain subject.
Example:
Effect: Creates a certain mood for the reader to feel while reading.
Flashback
Define: A scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story and interrupts the normal storyline.
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Effect: Provides context or information that is important to the story.
Imagery
Define: Creates an image in the readers head.
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Effect:It makes it easier for the reader to understand the story and what is happening.
Person Vs Person conflict
Define: The main character’s goal is blocked by another character or multiple characters.
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Effect: Used to illustrate a deeper meaning.
Person vs Society
Define: When a protagonist has a strong belief against the majority of the community or surroundings and decides to act on it.
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Person vs Nature
Define: When a character faces resistance from a specific element of nature when trying to achieve their goal.
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Effect: Forces the characters of a story to look within themselves and consider what internal strengths they have to meet the challenges they face.
Person vs God or Fate
Define: Where the main character fights against a prediction or fortune from a god, oracle, or supernatural entity.
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Effect: Characters faces the limitations and realities of being human.
Person vs Self
Define: Involve the character experiencing opposing needs, desires, with their own feelings or have two opposing goals.
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Form
Define: The form of a piece of writing is simply its structure and how it is constructed and organized.
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Effect: Can contribute to the overall effect of the poem and help convey its themes and ideas.
Symbol
Define: When the author uses an object or reference to add deeper meaning to a story.
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Example: Helps create meaning and emotion in a story.
Theme
Define: Is the main idea, the message, or the lesson that the story reveals.
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Effect: Connects the reader to the story.
Alliteration
Define: Using the same letter and sound at the start of many words in a sentence.
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Effect: Provides a hearable pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.
Smilie
Definition: Comparing two things using “like” or “as”.
Example:
Effect: Writers use them to paint vivid images, create emotion or memory, and to clarify or explain ideas through comparison.
Metaphor
Define: Comparing things without using like or as by stating the same shared qualities.
Example:
Effect: Can make your words come to life, and creates images that are easier to understand.
Personification
Define: Describing the action of a non living thing.
Example:
Effect: Gives lifelikeness to an object or animal that might otherwise seem dull.
Paradox
Define: A statement that sounds impossible but at the same time can be possible which makes it never ending.
Example: “Bad is good, and good is bad” (Macbeth).
Effect: Cause the reader to think more critically about the ideas in the text.
Narrative
Define: A way of presenting connected events in order to tell a good story.
Example:
Effect: For the reader to know what the story is about.
Aside
Define: A speech or short comment that a character delivers directly to an audience. (With other characters there but not able to hear).
Example:
Effect: Gives the audience a glimpse into the character’s thoughts.
