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English Test Worth 15% Flashcards

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1
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Plot

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Main events in a play

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Central characters

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Main characters

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Secondary characters

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Supporting characters

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Protagonists

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Hero

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5
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Antagonist

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Villain

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Exposition

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Story intro

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Five. Parts of a play.

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Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

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Dynamic characters

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Characters change throughout the story

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Static characters

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Characters that don’t change throughout the story

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Omniscient narrator

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Knows everything

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Limited narrator

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Knows only what the character knows

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Three tenses

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Past present and future tense

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Setting

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When or where the story takes place

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The five types of conflicts

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Person versus person
person versus society
person versus nature
person versus self
person versus paranormal

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Tone

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How the story feels to read, e.g., optimistic, worried

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Theme

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The main point of the story, e.g. love, family, belonging, redemption

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What are the seven paragraph sentence structures?

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1: hook
2: intro
3: exposition/explain argument background
4: argument point
5: evidence
6: explain
7: conclusion

18
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Allegory

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A story used to represent a bigger idea

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Alliteration

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A letter at the beginning of many words, e.g. peter picked a pickled peppers

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Personification

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Giving nonhumans human qualities

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Colloquialism

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Slang words/phrases

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Dramatic, irony

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When the reader knows something the characters don’t know

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Euphemism

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When something bad is said, in a nicer way

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Exposition

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When narrators, explain something to the reader

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Flashback

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When the story moves to a past event to give clarity to the reader

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Foreshadowing

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When do author/filmmaker leave clues about future events?

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Hyperbole

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When exaggeration is used

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Imagery

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When words are used to create a picture for the reader

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Irony

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When results contradict the original intention

30
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Juxtaposition

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When 2 things contradict each other

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Motif

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Repeating object, theme, or idea throughout text

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Onomatopoeia

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When a sound is represented with words

33
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Satire

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When social conventions are mocked to improve them

34
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Synecdoche

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One apart is used to represent a whole

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Dialogue

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Characters chatting

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Similes

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A comparison between two things using the word like or as

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Metaphor

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When 2 things are compared

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