English 9 Semester Exam

Question 0

Epic

Answer 0

Nothing or pertaining to a long poetic composition

Question 1

Myth

Answer 1

A traditional or legendary story

Question 2

Epic hero

Answer 2

A brave and noble character and an epic poem

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

To come into disagreement or collision

Question 4

Memoir

Answer 4

A record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them

Question 5

Internal conflict

Answer 5

A mental struggle within the mind of the literary character

Question 6

Exposition

Answer 6

The act of expounding, settling fourth, explaining, and presenting to view

Question 7

Foreshadowing

Answer 7

To show or indicate before hand

Question 8

External conflict

Answer 8

A struggle between literary character and in outside force which drives the dramatic action of the plot

Question 9

Dialect

Answer 9

A rural or socially variety of language that differs from the standard language

Question 10

Freytag’s pyramid

Answer 10

A diagram of a story’s plot

Question 11

Rising action

Answer 11

He related series of incidents and a literary plot that builds towards a climax

Question 12

Formal English

Answer 12

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Question 13

Genre

Answer 13

A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, or technique

Question 14

Falling action

Answer 14

The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached

Question 15

Informal English

Answer 15

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Question 16

Climax resolution

Answer 16

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Question 17

Verbal irony

Answer 17

Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another

Question 18

Interference

Answer 18

The act or process of inferring, something that is inferred

Question 19

Standard English

Answer 19

The English language in it’s most widely accepted form

Question 20

Situational irony

Answer 20

Ironing involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended

Question 21

Old English

Answer 21

Also called Anglo-Saxon, the English language of 450 – 1150

Question 22

Nonfiction

Answer 22

The branch of literature compromising works of reality

Question 23

Dramatic irony

Answer 23

Irone that is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play

Question 24

Middle English

Answer 24

The English language of the period 1150–1475

Question 25

Fiction

Answer 25

The class of literature compromising works of imaginative narration

Question 26

Plot

Answer 26

Also called storyline. The plan, scheme, or main story of literary or dramatic work

Question 27

Modern English

Answer 27

The English language since 1475

Question 28

Point of view

Answer 28

The position from which a thing is viewed, an opinion, attitude, or judgment

Question 29

Theme

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A unifying or dominant idea

Question 30

Vernacular

Answer 30

Expressed or written and then native language of a place, as literary works

Question 31

Colloquialism

Answer 31

An expression or informality

Question 32

Slang

Answer 32

Speech and writing characterized by the use of vulgar and socially taboo Vocabulary and idiomatic expressions