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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Effect: Gives the audience a glimpse into the character’s thoughts.
Comic Relief
Define: An amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into a serious or tragic topic.
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Effect: To break tension
Nemesis
Define: The antagonist of the story.
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Effect: Without an antagonist there is no plot.
Foil
Define: A character whose purpose is to draw attention to the qualities of another character.
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Pathetic Fallacy
Define: The attribution of human emotion to inanimate objects, nature, or animals.
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Effect: To make a specific mood or feeling that usually reflects the character’s internal state.
Soliloquy
Define: When a character speaks directly to the audience, expressing their inner thoughts. (Alone on stage).
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Effect: Allow the audience to know what a character is thinking or feeling
Motif
Define: A repeated pattern—an image, sound, word, or symbol that comes back again and again within a particular story.
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Effect: Can highlight something about a character, help us understand them better, or it can help to establish the mood of the story.
Tragic Flaw
Define: A defect in the character of a good person, like a hero.
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Effect: Leads to or contributes to a character’s tragic downfall.
Speaker
Define: The author’s or characters perspective.
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Characterization
Define: Is the method by which an author informs his readers about the characters.
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Effect: Helps readers understand that character more accurately.
Allusion
Define: An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.
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Effect: Enhance a text by providing further meaning
Connotation
Define: The use of a word to suggest a different meaning than its literal meaning.
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Effect: Gives further meaning to words and phrases, creating positive and/or negative effect.
Denotation
Define: The most literal meaning of a word or feeling.
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Anaphora
Define: The repetition of a word or sequence of words at the beginning sentences.
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Effect: Engages your audience in a particular emotional experience.
Hyperbole
Define: Exaggeration.
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Effect: Makes an overstatement.
Juxtaposition
Define: Placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences and similarities.
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Effect: Makes the reader to compare, contrast, and consider the differences and similarities between elements more closely.
Onomatopoeia
Define: Sounds in literature.
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Effect: Ads excitement, action, and interest by allowing the reader to hear your writing.
Imagery
Define: Literature that creates an image in the readers head.
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Effect: Adds symbolism and makes the reader imagine the world of the story.
What are the three main point of views?
First person - The story is told by a single character who participates in the action. Narrator is part of the story and uses the pronouns “I” and “we”.
Second person - The story is told by the point of view of the reader. The reader is a part of the story and the pronoun “you is often used”.
Third person - The narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.
Draw and label plot structure diagram.
What are the three kinds of Shakespearian plays?
Comedies, Tragedies and Histories.
What are the three parts of setting?
Place, time, and historical or social content.
What are the rules of MLA format?
1” margins, use Times New Roman in a 12 point font, and the paper will be double spaced. The top left of the first page will have; Student’s name, Professor’s name, Course number, and the date. Each of these will be on a separate line. Then a title.
What are the parts of a paragraph?
A topic sentence, the developing details (topic, evidence, explain), and a concluding sentence.
What makes a good/effective topic sentence?
Informs the reader of the subject that will be discussed in the paragraph, focuses on the topic, and makes the reader want to continue reading to find out more about the topic.
Asyndeton
Define: A literary device in which conjunction (as , but, or) between words, phrases, or clauses are intentionally removed while maintaining proper grammar.
Effect: Makes a speech more dramatic and effective by speeding up its rhythm and pace.
Polysyndeton
Define: The repeated use of coordinating conjunctions to connect different items in a sentence.
Effect: Slows down the rhythm of a phrase, make it more memorable, or emphasize each individual item in a list.
Synecdoche
Define: Using a part of a speech to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.
Effect: Emphasize the symbolic importance of a specific part of a whole.
I Have a Dream (Dr. King) content
Outlines the long history of racial injustice in America and encourages his audience to hold their country accountable to its own founding promises of freedom, justice, and equality.
Literary devices used: personification, metaphor, and symbolism
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Dr.king) content
While in jail, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail in response to local clergymen vocalizing criticism of his ideas and methods.
Literary devices used: Metaphors, similes, allusions.
Macbeth importent content
The Witches’ Prophecy. INVESTIGATE ACT 1 SCENE 3.
Duncan is Dead. INVESTIGATE ACT 2 SCENE 2.
Banquo’s Ghost. INVESTIGATE ACT 3 SCENE 4.
Macduff defeats Macbeth. INVESTIGATE ACT 5 SCENE 8.
Other scenes. Investigate other key scenes.
Literary devices used: allusion, dramatic irony, foil, foreshadowing, paradox, imagery
Marrow Thieves content
Indigenous people, who can still dream, are hunted for their bone marrow, which is used to create a serum to treat dreamlessness. Francis, nicknamed Frenchie, loses both parents to “Recruiters” from the Canadian government. Recruiters kidnap Indigenous people and take them to schools where they are eventually murdered.
Literary devices used: Imagery, foreshadowing, allusion, personification, irony
Lather and Nothing Else content
Personal morals determine the outcome of choices when it comes to good or evil. A barber tries to decide wether he will kill his customer which is the leader of the people who kill the revolutionary.
Literary devices used: simile, metaphor, otomotopia
gentlemen, your verdict content
Lieutenant-Commander Oram was forced to make the complicated decision of saving five members of his crew, or allowing everyone to die due to a mine accident that damaged their submarine. He then kills everyone who aren’t married or have families so that the rest of the crew with families have enough supply on which to live until they get rescued. Before he died the commander makes them decide wether or not he is guilty or not.
Literary devices used: symbolizm, situational irony,
I lost my voice content
Presents language as an essential part of cultural identity and expression. The poem’s speaker is someone who was forced to abandon her native tongue while attending “Shubenacadie school,” part of a network of residential schools in Nova Scotia, Canada, designed to stamp out Indigenous culture.
Literary devices used: symbolism, imagery, and visual mental images
The beaver content
