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English Final Review Flashcards

1
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what is an allegory?

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The device of using character or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of sounds

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Whats an allusion?

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a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize

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Who is the antagonist?

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A character who opposes the hero

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Whats a blank verse?

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unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length

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whats Caesura?

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a pause or break within a line of poetry

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Whats a climax?

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The height of tension or turning point in a story

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Whats the conflict?

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Tension or difficulties faced by the characters in the story

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Whats an epic poem?

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a long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds

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What is foreshadowing?

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The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

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Whats a framework story?

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story within a story

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Whats a free verse?

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Poetry that lacks regular meter and, often, rhyme as well.

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Whats irony?

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An event, situation, action, or statement that reveals inconsistency

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What is limited perspective?

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the narrator tells only what one character sees, thinks, hears, and feels

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Whats a metaphor?

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An comparison between two things, or between a character or event

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Whats motif?

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recurring structures, and literary devices that help inform the text’s major themes

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Whats a narrator?

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The voice telling the story

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Whats a plot?

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events or course of action that moves the story along

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Whats a protagonist?

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Te hero of the story

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Whats rhyme?

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Two words that sound the same

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21
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Whats Satire?

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the use of humor to emphasize human weaknesses or imperfections

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Whats a similie?

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An explicit comparison between two things, signified by the words like or as.

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Whats a stanza?

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a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

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Whats symbolizm?

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The use of objects or characters to represent ideas.

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Whats theme?

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a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work

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Whats a passive voice?

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The subject recieves the action

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Whats an action voice

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The subject performs the action

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28
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What are the four purposes of a sentence

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Declarative- Makes a statement
Exclamatory- Expresses strong emotion
Imperative- Makes a command
Interrogative- Asks a question

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29
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What are the 5 parts of a sentence?

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Subject, Verb, Complete Sense, Capital Letter and end mark

30
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Whats a phrase?

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group of words that does not contain both a subject AND a verb

31
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Whats a clause?

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group of words that contains a subject AND a verb.

32
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What are the 2 components of a sentence?

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Independent clause and Dependent clause

33
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Whats an independent clause?

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has a verb and a subject – makes complete sense by itself.

34
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Whats a dependent clause?

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not a complete thought; cannot stand alone

35
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What are linking verbs?

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used with Predicate Nouns or Predicate Adjectives. Linking verbs have no action.

36
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What are the 5 principle parts of verbs?

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Infinitive, Present, Past, Present participle, Past participle

37
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What are the three verb time tenses?

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Present, Past, Future

38
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What are the 4 verb form tenses?

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Simple, Perfect, Progressive, Perfect Progressive

39
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What are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person verbs

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1st- I/WE
2nd- You/you
3rd- He/She/It/They

40
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What are the 8 types of speech?

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Noun, Verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, Interjunction, Conjuction

41
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Whats a noun?

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Person, Place or Thing

42
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Whats a verb

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asserts action

43
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Whats an adverb?

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modifies verbs, adjectives, other adverbs

44
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Whats an adjective?

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modifies nouns or pronouns

45
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What are pronouns?

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used instead of a noun in order to avoid repetition

46
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Whats a preposition?

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connects noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence

47
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Whats an interjection?

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sudden, emotional expressions

48
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Whats a conjunction?

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connects words, phrases, clauses.

49
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What are the four verb types?

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Intransative, Transative, Helping, and linking verbs

50
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What is a transitive verb?

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transfers action from subject to object

51
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Whats an intransative verb?

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verbs that are not followed by objects; no action transferred from subject to object

52
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Whats a helping verb?

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helping another verb assert action, being, existence

53
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What are three verb moods?

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Indicative, Imperative, and Subjunctive

54
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Whats a proper noun?

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specific person, place, thing – must be capitalized

55
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Whats a common noun?

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non-specific person, place, thing; not capitalized

56
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Whats a concrete noun?

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A physical Substance

57
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Whats an abstract noun?

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An idea or concept

58
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Whats a collective noun?

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Grouping nouns

59
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What are the correlative conjunctions?

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Either/Or
Neither/Nor
Both/And
Whether/Or
Not/But
Not only/But Also
60
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Which literature Time Period was Mythological?

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Native American

61
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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

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Puritan

62
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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

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Enlightenment/Revolutionary

63
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Which literature Time Period consisted of Neoclassicism and was written by Cooper, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and Melville.

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Romanticism

64
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Which literature Time Period consisted of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, W.H. Channing, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth
Peabody.

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Transcendentalism

65
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Which literature Time Period consisted of horror stories written by Poe and Hawthorne

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Gothic

66
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Which literature Time Period consisted of The late 1800’s being a new generation to writing. written by Mark Twain and Henry James

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Realism

67
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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.

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Regionalism

68
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Which literature Time Period was led by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell

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Imagism

69
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What are similies?

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use the words like or as to connect two

unlike things.

70
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What are metaphors?

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harder to create, also compare but

without the like or as.

71
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What are the capatalization rules?

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first word of a sentence
Proper Nouns and names
The word ‘‘I”

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