English Exam Review Flashcards
What is climax?
The most exciting, important, or intense part of a story.
What is a protagonist?
A protagonist is the main character in a story.
What is an antagonist?
The opposing force against the protagonist.
What is a flat character?
A character who is not fully developed and who we know very little about. (usally a minor character).
What is round character?
A round character is a character that is fully developed and who we know a lot about. (usally a major character).
What is a static character?
A character who does not experience change during the course of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
A character who does experience change during the course of the story.
What is a flashback?
A literary device that takes the reader back in time to an earlier event in the story.
What is irony?
A contrast between what it expected to happen and what actualy happens.
What is verbal irony?
When someone says one thing but it really means another.
What is dramatic irony?
When the reader/audience knows something the characters do not.
What is situational irony?
What is expected to happen is the opposite of what occurs.
What is foreshadowing?
When the author plants hints about what will happen later in the story.
What is an oxymoron?
A combination of words with a contradictory meaning.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison between two different things without using like or as.
What is onomatapeia?
Words that sound like their meaning.
What is imagrey?
Appeals to the 5 senses (taste, touch, sight, smell and sound) that paints a picture in our minds.
What is mood?
A feeling that is created in the story by the thouhgts, feelings, and reactions of a character or characters.
What is first person?
Using “I” or “me”, the protagonist is telling the story directly to the reader.
What is second person?
Using “you”, the author is speaking directly to the reader.
What is thrid person?
Using “we” “she” “he” or “it”, the author is speaking to all the characters.
What is theme?
The underlying meaning of the story or universal truth.
What is simile?
A comparison between two different things using like or as.
What is personification?
Giving human traits to animals, inanimate objects, and nonhuman beings/things.
What is exposition?
The beginning of a story, the introduction.
What is setting?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is tone?
The manner or writing or speaking that reveal’s the others attitude towards a part of a story.
What is resolution?
The ending of a story where the conflict is resolved.
What is symbol?
Something- a person, object, place, situation that has a literal and symbolic meaning (ex. a ring represents marriage but also represents love).
What is point of view?
The prespective in which a story is told.
What is allusion?
A reference to something that can be from mythology, history, religion etc.
