English Final Review Flashcards
what is an allegory?
The device of using character or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction
What is alliteration?
The repetition of sounds
Whats an allusion?
a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize
Who is the antagonist?
A character who opposes the hero
Whats a blank verse?
unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length
whats Caesura?
a pause or break within a line of poetry
Whats a climax?
The height of tension or turning point in a story
Whats the conflict?
Tension or difficulties faced by the characters in the story
Whats an epic poem?
a long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds
What is foreshadowing?
The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Whats a framework story?
story within a story
Whats a free verse?
Poetry that lacks regular meter and, often, rhyme as well.
Whats irony?
An event, situation, action, or statement that reveals inconsistency
What is limited perspective?
the narrator tells only what one character sees, thinks, hears, and feels
Whats a metaphor?
An comparison between two things, or between a character or event
Whats motif?
recurring structures, and literary devices that help inform the text’s major themes
Whats a narrator?
The voice telling the story
Whats a plot?
events or course of action that moves the story along
Whats a protagonist?
Te hero of the story
Whats rhyme?
Two words that sound the same
Whats Satire?
the use of humor to emphasize human weaknesses or imperfections
Whats a similie?
An explicit comparison between two things, signified by the words like or as.
Whats a stanza?
a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Whats symbolizm?
The use of objects or characters to represent ideas.
Whats theme?
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Whats a passive voice?
The subject recieves the action
Whats an action voice
The subject performs the action
What are the four purposes of a sentence
Declarative- Makes a statement
Exclamatory- Expresses strong emotion
Imperative- Makes a command
Interrogative- Asks a question
What are the 5 parts of a sentence?
Subject, Verb, Complete Sense, Capital Letter and end mark
Whats a phrase?
group of words that does not contain both a subject AND a verb
Whats a clause?
group of words that contains a subject AND a verb.
What are the 2 components of a sentence?
Independent clause and Dependent clause
Whats an independent clause?
has a verb and a subject – makes complete sense by itself.
Whats a dependent clause?
not a complete thought; cannot stand alone
What are linking verbs?
used with Predicate Nouns or Predicate Adjectives. Linking verbs have no action.
What are the 5 principle parts of verbs?
Infinitive, Present, Past, Present participle, Past participle
What are the three verb time tenses?
Present, Past, Future
What are the 4 verb form tenses?
Simple, Perfect, Progressive, Perfect Progressive
What are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person verbs
1st- I/WE
2nd- You/you
3rd- He/She/It/They
What are the 8 types of speech?
Noun, Verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, Interjunction, Conjuction
Whats a noun?
Person, Place or Thing
Whats a verb
asserts action
Whats an adverb?
modifies verbs, adjectives, other adverbs
Whats an adjective?
modifies nouns or pronouns
What are pronouns?
used instead of a noun in order to avoid repetition
Whats a preposition?
connects noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence
Whats an interjection?
sudden, emotional expressions
Whats a conjunction?
connects words, phrases, clauses.
What are the four verb types?
Intransative, Transative, Helping, and linking verbs
What is a transitive verb?
transfers action from subject to object
Whats an intransative verb?
verbs that are not followed by objects; no action transferred from subject to object
Whats a helping verb?
helping another verb assert action, being, existence
What are three verb moods?
Indicative, Imperative, and Subjunctive
Whats a proper noun?
specific person, place, thing – must be capitalized
Whats a common noun?
non-specific person, place, thing; not capitalized
Whats a concrete noun?
A physical Substance
Whats an abstract noun?
An idea or concept
Whats a collective noun?
Grouping nouns
What are the correlative conjunctions?
Either/Or Neither/Nor Both/And Whether/Or Not/But Not only/But Also
Which literature Time Period was Mythological?
Native American
Which literature Time Period consisted of histories, journals, personal poems, sermons, and diaries, focused on moral attitudes, and was written by Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Ann
Bradstreet
Puritan
Which literature Time Period consisted of political documents, speeches, and letters. The writings were often meant to explore the ideas of
liberty, patriotism, government, nationalism, and American character. They were written by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick
Henry, and Thomas Paine
Enlightenment/Revolutionary
Which literature Time Period consisted of Neoclassicism and was written by Cooper, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and Melville.
Romanticism
Which literature Time Period consisted of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, W.H. Channing, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth
Peabody.
Transcendentalism
Which literature Time Period consisted of horror stories written by Poe and Hawthorne
Gothic
Which literature Time Period consisted of The late 1800’s being a new generation to writing. written by Mark Twain and Henry James
Realism
Which literature Time Period consisted of another outgrowth of Realism, Regionalism in literature is the
tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas.
Regionalism
Which literature Time Period was led by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell
Imagism
What are similies?
use the words like or as to connect two
unlike things.
What are metaphors?
harder to create, also compare but
without the like or as.
What are the capatalization rules?
first word of a sentence
Proper Nouns and names
The word ‘‘I”
