Lesson 2A vocab

Question 1

Point of View

Answer 1

Relationship of the storyteller to the story.

Question 2

1st Person Point of View

Answer 2

The narrator is a character in the story and refers to themselves as “I.”

Question 3

Third Person Limited (POV)

Answer 3

The story is revealed through the thoughts of one character, using “He” or “She.”

Question 4

Third Person Omniscient (POV)

Answer 4

The narrator knows everything about all of the story’s events and reveals the thoughts of all of the characters.

Question 5

Plot

Answer 5

The sequence of events in a story. Each event leads to the next and is often created by conflict.

Question 6

Internal (Conflict)

Answer 6

Within the mind of the character. They are torn apart by opposing feelings between opposing feelings or different courses of action.

Question 7

External (Conflict)

Answer 7

A conflict between the character and some outside force.

Question 8

Myth

Answer 8

A traditional story passed down through generations that explains why the world is the way it is.

Question 9

Creation Myth

Answer 9

Explains how the universe, the earth, and life on earth began.

Question 10

Diction

Answer 10

A writer’s or speaker’s choice of words.

Question 11

Inference

Answer 11

An educated guess or prediction.

Question 12

Setting

Answer 12

Refers to the time and place in which action occurs.

Question 13

Bias

Answer 13

A leaning in favor or against something or someone; partiality or prejudice.

Question 14

Loaded question

Answer 14

A question with an unjustified assumption.

Question 15

Connotation

Answer 15

The emotional response evoked by a word.

Question 16

Denotation

Answer 16

The literal dictionary definition of a word.

Question 17

Imagery

Answer 17

The descriptive words and phrases that a writer uses to create sensory experiences.

Question 18

is a greek word meaning “character.” In terms of persuasive language, it is an appeal to authority and credibility. It’s a means of convincing an audience of the reliable character or credibility of the speaker/writer, or the credibility of the argument.

Answer 18

Ethos

Question 19

Is a greek word meaning “suffering” or “experience.”, and is used in a persuasive speech as an appeal to the emotions of the audience. It is a way of creating a persuasive argument by evoking an emotional response in the audience/reader.

Answer 19

Pathos

Question 20

Is a Greek word meaning “a word” or “reason.” It is an appeal to logic and reason. It is used to persuade an audience through logical thought, fact, and rationality.

Answer 20

Logos

Question 21

Simile

Answer 21

A comparison using like or as

Question 22

Metaphor

Answer 22

A comparison of two things without using like or as.

Question 23

Paradox

Answer 23

A statement that appears to be contradictory but is actually true, either in fact or figurative sense.

Question 24

Personification

Answer 24

When an object, animal, or idea is given human characteristics.

Question 25

Allusion

Answer 25

An indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work.

Question 26

Tone

Answer 26

A writer’s attitude toward his/her subject.

Question 27

Epic

Answer 27

A long narrative poem that recounts, in formal language, the exploits of a larger-than-life hero.

Question 28

Epic Hero

Answer 28

Usually, a man of high social status and is often important in the history of his people.

Question 29

Alliteration

Answer 29

The repetition of consonant sounds (Usually at the beginning of words and in stressed syllables)

Question 30

An obvious pause in a line of poetry. It is usually found near the middle of a line, with two stressed syllables before and after, creating a strong rhythm. It is often indicated with double slashes.

Answer 30

Caesura

Question 31

Kenning

Answer 31

An imaginative phrase that takes the place of a single noun.

Question 32

A plot structure that includes the telling of a story within a story. The frame is the outer story, which usually precedes and follows the inner story and more important story.

Answer 32

Frame Tale

Question 33

Irony

Answer 33

A contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality.

Question 34

Verbal (Irony)

Answer 34

When a person says one thing while meaning another

Question 35

Situational (Irony)

Answer 35

When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what someone expected.

Question 36

Dramatic (Irony)

Answer 36

Occurs when the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not know.

Question 37

The pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or a poem. The rhyme scheme is designated by the assignment of a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme

Answer 37

Rhyme Scheme

Question 38

Couplets

Answer 38

Two lines of a rhymed verse that work together as a unit to express an idea or make a point.

Question 39

Satire

Answer 39

Literature that exposes to ridicule the vices or follies of people or societies through devices such as exaggeration, understatement, and irony.

Question 40

Language that makes something seem less important than it really is. May be used to add humor or focus the reader’s attention on something the authors want to emphasize.

Answer 40

Understatement.

Question 41

Fable

Answer 41

A very brief, often humorous, story intended to teach a lesson about human behavior or to give advice about humans behave.

Question 42

Beast (Fable)

Answer 42

Animals talk and act like representative human types.

Question 43

Nonce Words

Answer 43

Made up words

Question 44

Blank Verse

Answer 44

Poetry or lines of a dramatic verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. In this verse form, each line is divided into 5 units, or feet, with stress falling on every second syllable.

Question 45

Foreshadowing

Answer 45

The author using hints or clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the narrative.

Question 46

Soliloquy

Answer 46

A dramatic device in which a character, alone on stage, reveals their private thoughts and feelings as if thinking outloud.

Question 47

Theme

Answer 47

The main idea of a story, poem, novel, or play.

Question 48

Moral dilemma

Answer 48

A dilemma that occurs when every choice leads to you compromising some moral value.

Question 49

Apostrophe

Answer 49

A literary device in which a speaker talks directly to inanimate objects.