Final

Question 1

What is an omniscient point of view?

Answer 1

All knowing narrator. Knows all the character thoughts, backstories, and feelings

Question 2

What is symbolism?

Answer 2

An object, person, or event(s) that function as itself but also stands for something more than itself

Question 3

What is a dynamic character?

Answer 3

Changes as a result of the story’s events

Question 4

What is a connotative meaning of a word?

Answer 4

The emotional meaning of a word

Question 5

What is a metaphor?

Answer 5

A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true

Question 6

What is direct characterization?

Answer 6

Author directly states what the character’s personality is like (e.g. cruel, kind)

Question 7

What is a Protagonist?

Answer 7

The main character

Question 8

What is a speaker in a poem?

Answer 8

The “voice” of a poem. Not always the author

Question 9

What is an allusion?

Answer 9

A reference to a statement, person, a place, or events

Question 10

What is a flat character?

Answer 10

• Stereotyped
• Not many traits

Question 11

What is an internal conflict?

Answer 11

Conflict that takes place in a character’s own mind (e.g. man vs. self)

Question 12

What is a denotattive meaning of a word?

Answer 12

The dictionary meaning of a word

Question 13

What is a round character?

Answer 13

Fully developed; has many different personality traits

Question 14

What is indirect characterization?

Answer 14

Showing a character’s personality through their actions, thoughts, feelings, or other characteristics or other character’s observations or reactions

Question 15

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 15

Clues the writer puts in the story to give the reader a hint of what is to come

Question 16

What is a Person vs. Person conflict?

Answer 16

A conflict between two characters in a story

Question 17

What is a static character?

Answer 17

Does not change

Question 18

What is the tone/attitude in a poem?

Answer 18

The way an author feels about the subject(s) in a poem

Question 19

What is verbal irony?

Answer 19

Saying one thing but meaning something completely different

Question 20

What is an Antagonist?

Answer 20

Opposes the protagonist

Question 21

What is a third person point of view?

Answer 21

Narrator is not a character in the story and describes a character’s thoughts or actions by using “she”, “he”, or “they”

Question 22

What is an external conflict?

Answer 22

A character struggles against an outside force

Question 23

What is a Simile?

Answer 23

A figure of speech that compares two things using “like” or “as”

Question 24

What is theme?

Answer 24

The central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work

Question 25

What is a first person point of view?

Answer 25

One of the characters is telling the story, using the pronoun “I”

Question 26

What is an unreliable narrator?

Answer 26

Only gives on point of view/perspective
Usually in first person

Question 27

What is situational irony?

Answer 27

The opposite of what is expected

Question 28

What is a Person vs. Society conflict?

Answer 28

A conflict between a person and the people or expectations in a society

Question 29

What is a stanza in a poem?

Answer 29

A set of grouped lines

Question 30

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 30

Showing a character’s personality through their actions, thoughts, feelings, or other characteristics or other character’s observations or reactions