UNIT 3 Exam Review Flashcards
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
A simile
The term used to describe the author using language to create images in the reader’s mind.
Imagery
The term used to describe language used by the author that is NOT meant to be taken literally.
Figurative Language
A CHANGE in the character’s actions or behavior.
Dynamic
NO change in the character’s emotions.
Flat
NO change in the character’s actions or behavior.
Static
A CHANGE in the character’s emotions.
Round
The plot element that reveals the conflict.
Rising action
This term describes a noun
Adjective
This term describes a verb
adverb
Giving an inanimate object human like qualities
Personification
Sound words (POP!)
Onomatopoeia
Types of conflict…
Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature…
The author’s attitude toward the subject revealed through word choice
Tone
The overall emotion the author wants the reader to feel after reading the story
mood
A lesson, takeaway, moral, or message of the story.
Theme
The classification of literature
Genre
The mode of literature (Type of literature)
Subgenre
A statement that uses extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
The point of view that uses the pronouns, “I, we, us”
1st person
The point of view that uses the pronouns, “they, them, he, she, they, and people’s names
3rd person
The point of view that uses the pronoun, “you.”
2nd person
The three author’s purposes:
To entertain, to inform, to persuade
Written language that uses the 5 senses to describe.
Descriptive language
Feeling or appearing troubled or nervous.
Agitated
Make continual twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body.
Writhe
To be compulsive, or obsessive.
Pathological
comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
Metaphor
