Fall finals study guide

Question 1

a component or element of the plot of a story

Answer 1

Plot Elements

Question 2

a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
AKA beginning

Answer 2

Exposition

Question 3

The place or surroundings

Answer 3

Setting

Question 4

a description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something.

Answer 4

Characterization

Question 5

conflict happens inside the main character

Answer 5

Internal Conflict

Question 6

conflict that happens outside of the main character

Answer 6

External Conflict

Question 7

Building tension, before the climax

Answer 7

Rising Action

Question 8

Most suspenseful part, Middle

Answer 8

Climax

Question 9

releases tension, wrap things up, after the climax

Answer 9

Falling Action

Question 10

the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic

Answer 10

Theme

Question 10

The end of the story

Answer 10

Resolution

Question 11

the author telling the audience what a character is like

Answer 11

Direct characterization

Question 12

reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly

Answer 12

indirect characterization

Question 13

a type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline

Answer 13

static character

Question 14

a character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story

Answer 14

dynamic character

Question 15

the character whose fate matters most.

Answer 15

protagonist

Question 16

the opposing force that the main character (bad guy)

Answer 16

antagonist

Question 17

placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position

Answer 17

Subordinate character

Question 18

the attitude that a character or narrator or author takes

Answer 18

tone

Question 19

he overall emotion and atmosphere the author intends the reader to feel while reading the book

Answer 19

mood

Question 19

narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted

Answer 19

foreshadowing

Question 20

nterrupts that chronological sequence to show readers a scene that unfolded in the past.

Answer 20

flashback

Question 21

tension holds our attention between one moment and another

Answer 21

suspense

Question 21

a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”

Answer 21

simile

Question 22

a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated

Answer 22

metaphor

Question 23

a figure of speech that is used to attribute human characteristics to something that is not human

Answer 23

personification

Question 24

anguage that stimulates the reader’s senses

Answer 24

imagery

Question 25

writing notes while reading about the story

Answer 25

annotate

Question 26

to recognize someone or something and say or prove who or what that person or thing is

Answer 26

identify

Question 27

to express the main ideas about something or someone in a short and clear form

Answer 27

summarize

Question 28

to convey in words the appearance, nature, attributes, etc., of something.

Answer 28

describe

Question 29

to study something closely and carefully

Answer 29

analize

Question 29

prove or disprove something, proof

Answer 29

evidence

Question 30

the main argument of an essay

Answer 30

claim

Question 31

explanatory notes or annotations

Answer 31

commentary

Question 31

the drawing of conclusions from known or assumed facts

Answer 31

reasoning

Question 32

standard practices and expectations that we follow in all sorts of areas of our lives

Answer 32

conventions

Question 33

avoids informal language and utilizes an authoritative tone

Answer 33

academic tone

Question 34

the storyteller’s own personal point of view, using “I”, “me”, “my”, and “myself”

Answer 34

first person

Question 35

offers omniscient insight into one or more character’s minds

Answer 35

third person omniscient

Question 36

the narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single protagonist

Answer 36

third person limited