english terms

Question 1

The feeling that surrounds the piece as a whole.

Answer 1

Atmosphere

Question 2

How the piece makes you feel.

Answer 2

Mood

Question 3

The author’s attitude toward their subject matter coming through. It comes from the words the author uses.

Answer 3

Tone

Question 4

The people that make up a story.

Answer 4

Characters

Question 5

The main character.

Answer 5

Protagonist

Question 6

The character that opposes the protagonist.

Answer 6

Antagonist

Question 7

How characters are developed.

Answer 7

Characterization

Question 8

When the person being characterized is seen doing things that imply they are a certain way.

Answer 8

Indirect Characterization

Question 9

The narrator or another character makes a statement about the person being characterized.

Answer 9

Direct Characterization

Question 10

Characters that are not well developed.

Answer 10

Flat Characters

Question 11

Characters that are well developed.

Answer 11

Round Characters

Question 12

Characters that do not change, learn or grow.

Answer 12

Static Characters

Question 13

Characters that do change, learn or grow.

Answer 13

Dynamic Characters

Question 14

Characters that do not have to be developed because the reader automatically assumes certain things about them.

Answer 14

Stock Characters

Question 15

Characters that serve one main purpose: to make another character stand out.

Answer 15

Foil Characters

Question 16

Troubles faced by the characters.

Answer 16

Conflict

Question 17

When a character struggles with anyone or anything outside of themselves.

Answer 17

External Confict

Question 18

When a character struggles in their own mind.

Answer 18

Internal Conflict

Question 19

Word choice.

Answer 19

Diction

Question 20

A word’s literal definition, what you would find in a dictionary.

Answer 20

Denotation

Question 21

What a word makes people think and feel.

Answer 21

Connotation

Question 22

Breaking the timeline of the story to tell something that happened before the story began.

Answer 22

Flashback

Question 23

A hint to what will happen later in the story.

Answer 23

Foreshadowing

Question 24

Diction that appeals to the senses.

Answer 24

Imagery

Question 25

When something happens in a story other than what was expected.

Answer 25

Irony

Question 26

When the reader expects a certain situation to occur but something totally different happens.

Answer 26

Situational Irony

Question 27

When a character in a story says one thing but means another.

Answer 27

Verbal Irony

Question 28

When the reader/viewer knows more than the characters.

Answer 28

Dramatic Irony

Question 29

Where two things are compared NOT using like or as.

Answer 29

Metaphor

Question 30

Where two things are compared using like or as.

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Simile

Question 31

Where non-human things are given human characteristics.

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Personification

Question 32

The narrative perspective used by an author to tell a story.

Answer 32

Point of View

Question 33

Events are related as they are perceived by one character. Uses “I” and “Me”.

Answer 33

First Person Point ff View

Question 34

The narrator tells the story to another character or reader using “you”.

Answer 34

Second Person Point of View

Question 35

Prevents the story from the outside BUT the narrator has no access to any character’s thoughts.

Answer 35

Third Person Objective

Question 36

Prevents the story from outside any single character’s perception, but the reader has no special insight into any other characters’ minds.

Answer 36

Third Person Limited

Question 37

Gives the reader an all-knowing position from which to see actions and characters’ thoughts.

Answer 37

Third Person Omniscient

Question 38

The main message of a story.

Answer 38

Theme

Question 39

The time, place and circumstances of a story’s plot.

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Setting

Question 40

When one thing represents something else.

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Symbolism