September 26

Question 1

ambiguity

Answer 1

having several possible meanings

Question 2

analogy

Answer 2

comparison-you really can teach an old dog new tricks, so you can teach Mrs. McInvale technology

Question 3

chronological

Answer 3

by order of time

Question 4

conflict

Answer 4

struggle between opposing forces-internal (decisions, personal struggles) and external (nature, another person, supernatural)

Question 5

denotation

Answer 5

dictionary meaning

Question 6

connotation

Answer 6

emotional associations/overtones

Question 7

exigence

Answer 7

emotional motivation behind a writers work (why they spoke or wrote what they did)

Question 8

ellipsis

Answer 8

three(or four if at the end of a sentence) dots that shows something has been omitted

Question 9

flashback

Answer 9

author leaves present and goes back in time

Question 10

foreshadowing

Answer 10

hints of what is to come in a narrative

Question 11

irony

Answer 11

surprising, amusing, or interesting contrast between expectations and reality

Question 12

situational irony

Answer 12

something happens that is opposite from what is expected
EX: Titanic advertised as unsinkable-sank on maiden voyage….

Question 13

Dramatic irony

Answer 13

we know what the character doesn’t
EX: We know that Romeo and Juliet don’t survive at the beginning of the story

Question 14

Verbal irony

Answer 14

The character/author says one thing but means another
EX: Calling a 350-pound man “Tiny”

Question 15

Juxtaposition

Answer 15

putting things side by side for comparative purpose

Question 16

Line of reasoning

Answer 16

writer’s/speaker’s progression of thought-one idea to another

Question 17

misplaced modifier

Answer 17

modifier separated from word it modifies- the child had a bicycle helmet on his head that was too large

Question 18

persona

Answer 18

fictional character- a terms that means a mask of alter of ego of the author- often used in first person works
EX: Poe in “Cask of Amontillado” adopts the persona of a murderer to tell his story

Question 19

point of view

Answer 19

perspective from which the story is told- whose eyes are we looking through?

Question 20

first person

Answer 20

obviously, told in first person- “I”- the author or a persona (assumed mask)

Question 21

Omniscient

Answer 21

person telling the story knows what all characters think and feel

Question 22

Limited omniscient

Answer 22

material is presented from point of view of one character in 3rd person

Question 23

innocent eye narrator

Answer 23

told through eyes of child- reader interprets what child observes

Question 24

rhetoric

Answer 24

art or persuasion in speaking or writing- there are three rhetorical appeals

Question 25

logos

Answer 25

appeal to reason- logical thinking

Question 26

ethos

Answer 26

appeal to credibility (believability)- yours or that of others

Question 27

pathos

Answer 27

appeal to emotion- like pity, patriotism, loyalty, righteous anger, spiritual beliefs, ect.

Question 28

satire

Answer 28

making fun of something with the intentions of positive change (political cartoons)

Question 29

style

Answer 29

manner of expression- the way a speaker/writer says what he/she says- includes sentence structure, diction, tone, ect.

Question 30

suspense

Answer 30

the building up of emotional uncertainly

Question 31

tone

Answer 31

author's attitude toward his subject- can be serious, humorous, harsh, tender, ect.