English mid terms

Question 1

Characters

Answer 1

A person in a novel, play or movie

Question 2

Protagonist

Answer 2

The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

Question 3

Antagonist

Answer 3

A person who actively opposes or is hostile to the protagonist; an adversary

Question 4

Round Character

Answer 4

A character with a complex personality

Question 5

Flat Character

Answer 5

Does not change and uncomplicated character

Question 6

setting

Answer 6

the place

Question 7

Conflict

Answer 7

A disagreement or a argument

Question 8

Internal Conflict

Answer 8

a type of conflict that takes place inside a character’s mind

Question 9

External Conflict

Answer 9

Man Vs man /nature/ supernatural

Question 10

Characterization

Answer 10

How an author describes a character

Question 11

Indirect Characterization

Answer 11

SHOWS the reader of describing a character through that character’s thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue

Question 12

Direct Characterization

Answer 12

TELLS us: makes direct statements about a characters personality and tells the reader or viewer what the character is like.

Question 13

Active Reading

Answer 13

Highlight and annotate while reading

Question 14

Annotation

Answer 14

A note written in the margin

Question 15

Theme

Answer 15

Lessons about life that the author wants the reader to learn

Question 16

Inference

Answer 16

Read between the lines

Question 17

identity

Answer 17

The fact of being or what a person or thing is

Question 18

Cultural Values

Answer 18

Things that are important to culture:
Love, good leadership, bravery, giving gifts, beauty, hospitality

Question 19

Society Norms

Answer 19

Things people in a specific society of on the regular

Question 20

Foil

Answer 20

Characters with contrasting traits

Question 21

Pun

Answer 21

Play on words

Question 22

Metaphor

Answer 22

Comparison without like or as

Question 23

Simile

Answer 23

Comparison with like or as

Question 24

Hyperbole

Answer 24

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Question 25

Dramatic Irony

Answer 25

Wen audience the character don’t know

Question 26

Comic Relief

Answer 26

Something funny to relieve the dramatic

Question 27

Monologue

Answer 27

Long uninterrupted speech given when OTHERS HEAR IT!!!

Question 28

Soliloquy

Answer 28

Long uninterrupted speech when the character is ALONE

Question 29

Tragedy

Answer 29

Play where the MC dies at the end … alot of people die

Question 30

Oxymoron

Answer 30

2 word term contrasting definitions

Question 31

Allusion

Answer 31

Reference to an historical person place, thing, or an event

Question 32

Symbolism

Answer 32

Something (object) that represents a larger area

Question 33

Imagery

Answer 33

Language that appeals to the 5 senses

Question 34

Personification

Answer 34

Giving not human things human traits

Question 35

Foreshadowing

Answer 35

A Hint of what’s to come

Question 36

Playwright

Answer 36

A person who writes plays

Question 37

Sonnet

Answer 37

A poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
Abab cdcd efef gg

Question 38

Couplet

Answer 38

2 lines of a poem that rhyme and make sense together

Question 39

Epithet

Answer 39

A repeated phrase or description ( grey eyed athena ) Odysseus master mariner and soldier (crooked hillary) (sleepy Joe)