English 2

Question 0

Round character

Answer 0

Highly developed character with many traits.

Question 1

Character

Answer 1

Individuals who participate in the action of a literary work.

Question 2

Flat character

Answer 2

Character that exhibits few traits and is not well developed.
We know very little about them.

Question 3

Static character

Answer 3

One who remains the same throughout the story.

Question 4

Dynamic character

Answer 4

A character who changes throughout the story.

Question 5

Indirect characterization

Answer 5

The author may describe the characters physical appearance.
The author may present the characters own thoughts, speach, and actions.
The author may present pertinent thoughts, speech, and actions of other characters.

Question 6

Direct characterization

Answer 6

The author just tells you exactly what the character is like.

Question 7

Theme

Answer 7

Underlying message about life or human nature that the author shares with the reader.
Usually not directly stated but must be inferred.

Question 8

Protagonist

Answer 8

Mail character in a work of literature who is involved in the central conflict.

Question 9

Antagonist

Answer 9

The principal character or force in opposition the the protagonist.

Question 10

Illusion

Answer 10

Indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.

Question 11

Diction

Answer 11

Authors or speakers choice of words in and way of arranging them in sentences.

Question 12

Plot

Answer 12

The sequence of events in the story.

Question 13

Setting

Answer 13

Time and place of the action of the work.

Question 14

Foil

Answer 14

A character who provides a striking contrast to another character.

Question 15

Foreshadowing

Answer 15

Writers you of clues that suggest events that will occur later in the story.

Question 16

Tone

Answer 16

The attitude a writer takes toward a subject.

Question 17

First person point of view

Answer 17

Narrator is one of the characters in the story and we know what they know.

Question 18

Third omniscient

Answer 18

All knowing.
Knowing everything about everybody.
Know the plots feeling on all the characters.
Not a character in the story.

Question 19

Third person limited

Answer 19

You only know what one character knows.

Outside narrator not a character in the story.

Question 20

Situational irony

Answer 20

What actually happens is the opposite of what is expected.

Question 21

Verbal irony

Answer 21

A speaker say sine thing but means another.

Question 22

Dramatic irony

Answer 22

When the audience or reader knows something important that the character does not know.

Question 23

Flashback

Answer 23

When the author interrupts the story to say what happened at a previous time.

Question 24

Imagery

Answer 24

Language that appeals to the seances. 
Hearing 
Seeing 
Smelling 
Tasting 
Touching

Question 25

Metaphor

Answer 25

A comparison of two unlike things THAT DOES NOT USE like or as.

Question 26

Simile

Answer 26

A comparison of two unlike things USING like or as.

Question 27

Rising action

Answer 27

When the conflict develops, story events build toward the climax, and complications arise.

Question 28

Climax

Answer 28

Is the point of maximum interest in tension and normally the turning point of the story.

Question 29

Falling action

Answer 29

The events that follow the climax and show the events that were important at the climax.

Question 30

Resolution

Answer 30

How the story ends.

Resolves all the conflicts.

Question 31

Suspense

Answer 31

The uncertainty or anxiety we feel as they wait the find out what happens next in the story.

Question 32

Hyperbole

Answer 32

An exaggeration.

Question 33

Paradox

Answer 33

Seemingly contradictory or ubserd statement that may nonetheless suggest an important truth

Question 34

Symbols

Answer 34

Person place object or activity that stands for something beyond its self.

Question 35

Alliteration

Answer 35

Repetition of continent sounds at the beginning of words.

Question 36

Assonance

Answer 36

Repetitions of vowel sounds.

Question 37

Onomatopoeia

Answer 37

Words that sound like what they are

Buzzzzz

Question 38

Internal conflict

Answer 38

One that occurs with in a character.

Question 39

External conflict

Answer 39

Conflict that occurs with an outside force such as nature a physical obstical or another character.