English 9 Semester Exam Flashcards
Epic
Nothing or pertaining to a long poetic composition
Myth
A traditional or legendary story
Epic hero
A brave and noble character and an epic poem
Conflict
To come into disagreement or collision
Memoir
A record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them
Internal conflict
A mental struggle within the mind of the literary character
Exposition
The act of expounding, settling fourth, explaining, and presenting to view
Foreshadowing
To show or indicate before hand
External conflict
A struggle between literary character and in outside force which drives the dramatic action of the plot
Dialect
A rural or socially variety of language that differs from the standard language
Freytag’s pyramid
A diagram of a story’s plot
Rising action
He related series of incidents and a literary plot that builds towards a climax
Formal English
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Genre
A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, or technique
Falling action
The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached
Informal English
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Climax resolution
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Verbal irony
Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another
Interference
The act or process of inferring, something that is inferred
Standard English
The English language in it’s most widely accepted form
Situational irony
Ironing involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended
Old English
Also called Anglo-Saxon, the English language of 450 – 1150
Nonfiction
The branch of literature compromising works of reality
Dramatic irony
Irone that is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play
