Final Review

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Question 2

ballad

Answer 2

a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

Question 3

character motivation

Answer 3

what drives a character to be who they are and do what they do

Question 4

character trait

Answer 4

all the aspects of a person’s behavior and attitudes that make up that person’s personality

Question 5

comedy

Answer 5

a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion

Question 6

conflict

Answer 6

It is a literary device used for expressing a resistance the protagonist of the story finds in achieving his aims or dreams

Question 7

dialogue (quotation marks)

Answer 7

The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel, especially a conversation between two characters, or a literary work that takes the form of such a discussion

Question 8

free verse

Answer 8

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 9

haiku

Answer 9

a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

Question 10

imagery

Answer 10

an author’s use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to his or her work

Question 11

metaphor/implied metaphor

Answer 11

a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two

Question 12

monologue

Answer 12

a speech delivered by one person, or a long one-sided conversation

Question 13

scene design

Answer 13

is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery

Question 14

sensory details

Answer 14

include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Writers employ the five senses to engage a reader’s interest

Question 15

setting

Answer 15

the environment in which a story or event takes place

Question 16

simile

Answer 16

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

Question 17

soliloquy

Answer 17

an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

Question 18

sonnet

Answer 18

a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Question 19

speaker

Answer 19

speaks of his or her situation or feelings.

Question 20

stage directions

Answer 20

an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting

Question 21

symbol/symbolize

Answer 21

a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract

Question 22

synthesizes

Answer 22

to combine two or more elements to form a new whole

Question 23

theme/moral

Answer 23

underlying message, or ‘big idea.’

Question 24

tone

Answer 24

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation

Question 25

narrator

Answer 25

a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.

Question 26

onomatopoeia

Answer 26

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).

Question 27

personification

Answer 27

a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas

Question 28

point of view

Answer 28

the narrator’s position in relation to the story being told

Question 29

rhyme

Answer 29

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

Question 30

tragedy

Answer 30

a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically involving a great person destined to experience downfall or utter destruction, as through a character flaw or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or an unyielding society

Question 31

voice

Answer 31

the form or a format through which narrators tell their stories