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

Exhibits few traits and 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

One who changes throughout the story

Question 5

Indirect Characterization

Answer 5

The writer may describe the character’s physical appearance. Writer may present the character’s own thoughts,speech, and actions.Writer may present speech and actions of other characters.

Question 6

Direct Characterization

Answer 6

The writer tells you exactly what that character is like.

Question 7

Theme

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Protagonist

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Antagonist

Answer 9

The principle character or force that is an opposition to the protagonist.

Question 10

Allusion

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Diction

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Plots

Answer 12

The sequence of events in a 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

A writers use of hints or clues to 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, and we as the reader know as they know. (I,me,my)

Question 18

Third Omniscient POV

Answer 18

All-knowing, knows the thoughts and feeling of ALL the characters. (Outside narrator, NOT a character in a story.

Question 19

Third Person Limited POV

Answer 19

The reader only knows what one character knows. (Outside narrator , NOT a character in the story.

Question 20

Situational Irony

Answer 20

What happens is the opposite of what’s expected.

Question 21

Verbal Irony

Answer 21

The speaker means one thing but means another.

Question 22

Dramatic Irony

Answer 22

When the audience or reader knows something that the reader doesn’t know.

Question 23

Flashback

Answer 23

When the author interrupts the story to present events that occurred at a previous time.

Question 24

Imagery

Answer 24

Language that appeals to the senses. (Sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste.)

Question 25

Metaphor

Answer 25

A figure of speech: a comparison of two things that do not use like or as.

Question 26

Simile

Answer 26

A figure of speech: a comparison of two things that do use like or as.

Question 27

Rising Action

Answer 27

When conflicts develop, story events build towards the climax, and complications arise.

Question 28

Climax

Answer 28

Point of maximum attention and turning point of the story.

Question 29

Falling Action

Answer 29

The events that follow the climax and shows the results of the important decision or action that happened at the climax.

Question 30

Resolution

Answer 30

How the story ends.

Question 31

Suspicion

Answer 31

The certainty or suspicion of what’s going to happen next.

Question 32

Hyperbole

Answer 32

An exaggeration.

Question 33

Paradox

Answer 33

A seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may nonetheless state an important truth.

Question 34

Symbol

Answer 34

Person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself.

Question 35

Alliteration

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

Question 36

Assonance

Answer 36

The repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words

Question 37

Onomatopoeia

Answer 37

The use of words who echo their meaning (buzz, boom, pop, whisper, and murmur.

Question 38

Internal Conflict

Answer 38

One that occurs within a character.

Question 39

External Conflict

Answer 39

Character is in conflict with an outside force such as nature, another character, a physical obstacle.