English Exam Review

Question 1

What is climax?

Answer 1

The most exciting, important, or intense part of a story.

Question 2

What is a protagonist?

Answer 2

A protagonist is the main character in a story.

Question 3

What is an antagonist?

Answer 3

The opposing force against the protagonist.

Question 4

What is a flat character?

Answer 4

A character who is not fully developed and who we know very little about. (usally a minor character).

Question 5

What is round character?

Answer 5

A round character is a character that is fully developed and who we know a lot about. (usally a major character).

Question 6

What is a static character?

Answer 6

A character who does not experience change during the course of the story.

Question 7

What is a dynamic character?

Answer 7

A character who does experience change during the course of the story.

Question 8

What is a flashback?

Answer 8

A literary device that takes the reader back in time to an earlier event in the story.

Question 9

What is irony?

Answer 9

A contrast between what it expected to happen and what actualy happens.

Question 10

What is verbal irony?

Answer 10

When someone says one thing but it really means another.

Question 11

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 11

When the reader/audience knows something the characters do not.

Question 12

What is situational irony?

Answer 12

What is expected to happen is the opposite of what occurs.

Question 13

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 13

When the author plants hints about what will happen later in the story.

Question 14

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 14

A combination of words with a contradictory meaning.

Question 15

What is a metaphor?

Answer 15

A comparison between two different things without using like or as.

Question 16

What is onomatapeia?

Answer 16

Words that sound like their meaning.

Question 17

What is imagrey?

Answer 17

Appeals to the 5 senses (taste, touch, sight, smell and sound) that paints a picture in our minds.

Question 18

What is mood?

Answer 18

A feeling that is created in the story by the thouhgts, feelings, and reactions of a character or characters.

Question 19

What is first person?

Answer 19

Using “I” or “me”, the protagonist is telling the story directly to the reader.

Question 20

What is second person?

Answer 20

Using “you”, the author is speaking directly to the reader.

Question 21

What is thrid person?

Answer 21

Using “we” “she” “he” or “it”, the author is speaking to all the characters.

Question 22

What is theme?

Answer 22

The underlying meaning of the story or universal truth.

Question 23

What is simile?

Answer 23

A comparison between two different things using like or as.

Question 24

What is personification?

Answer 24

Giving human traits to animals, inanimate objects, and nonhuman beings/things.

Question 25

What is exposition?

Answer 25

The beginning of a story, the introduction.

Question 26

What is setting?

Answer 26

Where and when the story takes place.

Question 27

What is tone?

Answer 27

The manner or writing or speaking that reveal’s the others attitude towards a part of a story.

Question 28

What is resolution?

Answer 28

The ending of a story where the conflict is resolved.

Question 29

What is symbol?

Answer 29

Something- a person, object, place, situation that has a literal and symbolic meaning (ex. a ring represents marriage but also represents love).

Question 30

What is point of view?

Answer 30

The prespective in which a story is told.

Question 31

What is allusion?

Answer 31

A reference to something that can be from mythology, history, religion etc.