Mid-terms (9) Flashcards
What is imagery?
Imagery is when an author uses words that appeal to the reader’s senses of sight, taste, sound, touch and smell.
What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
It describes one thing as if it were another.
Extended metaphor?
A metaphor that extends throughout the entire poem instead of just a few lines of the poem.
What is personification?
Gives human characteristics to something not human.
What is a hyperbole?
Figure of speech where exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.
What are the 5 elements of sentences?
Subjects, predicates, objects, phrases and clauses
What is a subject?
All sentences are about something or someone; this is called the subject.
What is the predicate?
The predicate is the rest of the sentence that is not the subject and can include the main verb, subject complement, direct object, indirect object and object complement.
What is the object of a sentence?
The object is what is being acted upon by the subject. Can be direct or indirect.
My mother handed me the mop.
Me - indirect. The mop - direct
What is the character of literature?
The characters are individuals who participate in the action of a literary work
- Protagonist: main character involved in the central conflict the story
- Antagonist: the character or force in opposition to the protagonist
Dynamic character: undergoes important changes as a plot unfolds. The changes occur because of his or her actions and experiences in the story
Static character: Remains the same throughout the story. The character may experience events or interactions with other characters, but is not changed because of them.
What is the conflict in literature?
A conflict is a struggle between opposing forces
External conflict: involves a character pitted against an outside force, such as nature, a physical obstacle or another character
Internal conflict: one that occurs within a character.
What is the exposition?
Exposition is the first stage of a plot in a story. The exposition provides important background information and introduces the setting, the important characters, and the conflict.
Setting: the time and place of the action of a story
Rising action?
Rising action is the stage in a plot in which the conflict develops and the story events build toward a climax.
This is the part of the story where the characters try and fail to solve the conflict.
Climax?
The climax is the point of maximum interest or tension. Usually the climax is a turning point in the story, which occurs after the reader had understood the conflict and become emotionally involved with the characters.
This is the part of the story where the characters finally solve the problem of the story instead of failing like they do in the rising action.
Falling action?
The falling action follows the climax and shows the results of the important action that happened at the climax
Tension eases as the falling action begins; however, the final outcome of the story is not yet fully worked out.
Resolution?
The resolution is the end of the story. All loose ends are tied up in a satisfying way.
The resolution should clearly connect to the theme of the text
Theme - an underlying message about life or human nature that a writer wants the reader to understand.
Point of view?
Who is telling the story and why?
First person point of view: better for allowing readers to know the protagonist and allows readers into their thoughts. Means you are limited to the events the protagonist is personally involved in, and is harder to give readers other information.
Pronouns “I, we, us,”
Third person: allows readers to know things that the protagonist doesn’t know. “Third person limited,” means the author relates only the thoughts of one person. “Third person omniscient,” means all characters actions and thoughts are voiced. Pronouns “ he, him, she, her, they, them,”
Second person: very rare and uses pronouns “you”. Used typically in self help books or advise columns.
What are the 14 subordinating conjunctions?
After. As. Before. If. Though. While. Unless. Although. Because. Even though. Since. When. Until. Whereas.
What does fanboys stand for?
For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So
Simple sentence
Aka an indépendant clause, it contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. One independent clause.
Compound sentence?
Has two or more independent clauses which are normally joined with a conjunction (fanboys)
Complex sentence?
Contains an independent clause, joined by one or more subordinate clauses, which can’t stand alone.
Compound complex?
Made by two or more independent clauses, joined with one or more subordinate clauses.
