Mid term

Question 1

What period are we in right now?

Answer 1

Post-modernism

Question 2

What literary device does the writer express his opinion through character?

Answer 2

Tone

Question 3

What are the 5 types of conflict?

Answer 3

human vs human
human vs nature
human vs society
human vs fate
human vs self

Question 4

What is a setting?

Answer 4

Place & time of where and when short story takes place.

Question 5

What is a climax peak?

Answer 5

Point where conflict/plot is resolved –> hero saves princess.

Question 6

What are the 4 types of characters with their emotions & feelings? Explain them.

Answer 6

Round: emotions +++
Flat: no emotion

Static: Same 1/2 feelings max whole story
Dynamic: changes emotions or personality

Question 7

What is the difference between a protagonist & antagonist?

Answer 7

Protagonist: :) hero
Antagonist: :( villan

Question 8

What is the name of the technique where you stretch the actual meaning of words for effect.

Answer 8

Figurative language

Question 9

How do you use MLA?

Answer 9

(last name year) no ,

Question 10

What is the type of figurative language that gives hints?

Answer 10

Foreshadowing

Question 11

What are the 3 steps in a paragraph?

Answer 11

1. Topic sentence
2. Supporting examples & details
3. Conclusion sentence

Question 12

What was the order with modernism, romanticism and realism?

Answer 12

1. Romanticism
2. Realism
3. Modernism

Question 13

What is the parallel structure? Give an example.

Answer 13

Specific grammatical form or pattern in a sentence –> LIST

Ex.: Before I go to work, I need to eat breakfast, walk the dog, and catch the train.

Question 14

Parallel structure applies to series of what?

Answer 14

Adjectives, noun phrases, verb phrases & clauses.

Question 15

What is the minimum of adjectives, verbs, etc. for a parallel structure?

Answer 15

2

Question 16

What is going from teen to adult hood?

Answer 16

Coming of age

Question 17

What is the stream of consciousness?

Answer 17

Trait of thought that goes through the protagonist or character (hear/feel how person felt.

Question 18

How do you identify modernism & postmodernism literature?

Answer 18

• new technologies & inventions, development in science
• modern life alienates individual
• language is nuanced & compact (not fixed)
• multiple narrators or voices
• symbols & allusions
• open/ambiguous endings
• non-sequential narration

Question 19

What are the differences between modernism & post-modernism

Answer 19

Modernism: see world as composed of one universal Truth (religion come under question), influenced by world wars industrialization, stream of consciousness

Postmodernism: intimate nature, writer is present in work, dark humour, unreliable narrator, mixture of earlier styles

Question 20

What is coming of age? (3 words)

Answer 20

• transition
• maturity
• growth

Question 21

How will you use MLA?

Answer 21

(Last name page numbers)
(Smith 17-19)

Question 22

What does the star mean?

Answer 22

Paragraph format!

Question 23

Exam! –> MAJUSCULE

Answer 23

:)

Question 24

What are the 2 types of conflicts?

Answer 24

internal (struggle with emotions, mind) or external (struggle with an external force)

Question 25

What is the unborn baby referred to?

Answer 25

It –> further from individual