Midterm Review- English

Question 1

Who wrote the short-story A&P?

Answer 1

John Updike

Question 2

What year was A&P written in?

Answer 2

1961

Question 3

What was the setting in A&P?

Answer 3

Grocery store

Question 4

What are the main characters names in A&P?

Answer 4

Sammy, Queenie, Lengel

Question 5

What is the protagonist in a story??

Answer 5

The main or central character in the story. Usually initiates the main action if the story, often in conflict with the antagonist.

Question 6

What is the antagonist?

Answer 6

The most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative. The antagonist may be another character, society itself, a force of nature, or even conflicting impulses within the protagonist.

Question 7

What is an exposition?

Answer 7

The opening portion of a narrative. In the exposition the scene is set, the protagonist is introduced, the author discloses other background information necessary for the reader to understand the events that follow.

Question 8

What is conflict??

Answer 8

The central struggle between two or more forces in a story. Conflict generally occurs when some person or thing prevents the protagonist from achieving his or her goal.

Question 9

What is complication?

Answer 9

The introduction of a significant development in the central conflict between characters (or between a character and his or her situation).

Question 10

What is the climax?

Answer 10

The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of a work.

Question 11

What is a conclusion?

Answer 11

In plotting, the logical end or outcome of a unified plot shortly following the climax.

Question 12

What is a flashback?

Answer 12

A scene relived in a characters memory.

Question 13

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 13

An indication of events to come in a narrative.

Question 14

What is plot?

Answer 14

The particular arrangement of actions, events and situations that unfold in a narrative. A plot is not merely the general story of a narrative but the authors artistic pattern made from parts of the narrative.

Question 15

Who is the author of “A Rose for Emily”?

Answer 15

William Faulkner

Question 16

When was “A Rose for Emily” written?

Answer 16

1931

Question 17

Who are the main characters in “A Rose for Emily”?

Answer 17

Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Judge Stevens, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris

Question 18

Who’s the author of “Sonnys Blues”?

Answer 18

James Baldwin

Question 19

What is the setting in Sonny’s Blues?

Answer 19

Harlem in the 1950s

Question 20

Who are the main characters in Sonny’s Blues?

Answer 20

Sonnys older brother and sonny

Question 21

What is the main events in “Sonnys blues”?

Answer 21

The narrators child dies which brings him to write to his brother in prison. Telling him everything that happened to their family. After sonny gets out of prison he moves in with his brother and his wife and decided to be a musician, his bother doesn’t approve so he joins the navy and gets involved with drugs. After sonny gets back to Harlem him and his brother almost come to an understanding that Sonnys brother just wants what’s best for him and he’s worried about being a musician isn’t a stable job for him sonny doesn’t care he wants to play music. Sonny takes his brother to a night club where his band plays some nights and Sonnys brother watches him play for the first time.

Question 22

What is total omniscience?

Answer 22

Point of view in which the narrator knows everything about all of the characters and events in a story

Question 23

What is limited or selective omniscience?

Answer 23

Point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of some but not all the characters.

Question 24

What is point of view?

Answer 24

The perspective from which the story is told.

Question 25

What is character?

Answer 25

An imagined figure inhabiting a narrative or drama.

Question 26

What is characterization?

Answer 26

The techniques a writer uses to create, reveal or develop the characters in a narrative.

Question 27

What is a flat character?

Answer 27

A character that has only one outstanding trait

Question 28

What is a round character?

Answer 28

A character who is three-dimensional. A well developed character that has more than a few traits.

Question 29

What is a static character?

Answer 29

A character that does not change in any significant way in the narrative.

Question 30

What is a dynamic character?

Answer 30

A character that changes in some significant way in the narrative

Question 31

What is setting?

Answer 31

The time and place in the narrative or story.

Question 32

Who wrote “The Storm”?

Answer 32

Kate Chopin

Question 33

What is the setting of “The Storm”?

Answer 33

New Orleans in the late 1800s before during and after a harsh storm.

Question 34

Who are the main characters in “The Storm”?

Answer 34

Bobinôt (father)
Bibi (son)
Sylvie (servant)
Calixta (wife of bobinôt)
Alcee (former lover of Calixta)
Clarisse (wife of Alcee)

Question 35

What is tone?

Answer 35

Whatever leads the reader to infer the authors attitude.

Question 36

What is style?

Answer 36

All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work.

Question 37

What is diction?

Answer 37

An authors choice of words in a narrative or story.

Question 38

Who wrote “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”?

Answer 38

Ernest Hemingway

Question 39

What is the setting of “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”?

Answer 39

A Cafe and a winery at night

Question 40

Who are the main characters in “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”?

Answer 40

Two waiters (one more relaxed and one in a rush)
An old man that's deaf