MIDTERM REVIEW. Do you remember the meaning of these terms? Allusion Conflict Dialect Dialogue Fiction Flashback Folktale Foreshadowing Irony Myth Novel.

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MIDTERM REVIEW

Do you remember the meaning of these terms? Allusion Conflict Dialect Dialogue Fiction Flashback Folktale Foreshadowing Irony Myth Novel Plot Nonfiction Point of View Setting Short Story Suspense Personification Simile If you don’t remember most of them you should study your notes (notebook)!!!!!!!

What is ….. A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports or science. Example 1: That basketball players can jump so high you would have thought he was Muggsy Bogues. Example 2: When the power failed, the subway station became a dark and dismal underworld.

What is … A struggle or clash between opposing character or opposing forces. Internal conflict- a struggle within the character’s mind External conflict- a character struggles against another character.

What is… A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people. “YOU MEAN YOU AIN’T GOT NO FIELDS TO RASIE NOTHING IN?”

What is… A conversation between two or more characters. "'How are you?' I said. "'As you see,' old Hernandez said, and he pushed his cap back on his forehead and smiled, 'alive.'" (Martha Gellhorn, "The Third Winter," 1938)

What is … A prose account that is made up rather than true. Science Fiction Little Red Riding Hood Prose writing that deals with real people, places and events without changing any facts.

What is… The time and location a story takes place. What is the time and place of this photo?

What is … is action that interrupts a story to show an event that happened at an earlier time Example : dreams, memories, and stories told by the narrator or a character.

What is …. A story with no know author that originally was passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth or orally.

What is … is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a piece of literature.

What is… The differences between what is said or done and what is expected or really meant. Three kinds of irony: 1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else. 2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know. 3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.

What is a … A fictional story that is usually more than one hundred book pages long. Language of everyday speech and writing. In paragraph form.

What is a… A story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or others supernatural beings.

What is … The series of related events hat make up a story. The high point or most exciting moment in a story.

Plot Diagram

What is … The vantage point from which a story is told. Third Person First Person Omniscient View

What is … A fictional prose narrative that is usually ten to twenty pages long.

What is… is giving human qualities to animals or objects. Example: a smiling moon, a jovial sun AND is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as. Example: He eats like a pig.

What is … The uncertainty or anxiety you feel about what will happen next in a story.

Cause and Effect Main Idea Supporting Details Compare and Contrast Making Predictions Sequence Context Clues

What is … A cause is the event that makes something happen. An effect is what happens as a result of the cause. CauseEffect

What is.. Making an educated guess about what is going to happen next in a story. A prediction is based on prior knowledge or your own personal experience.

What is … To compare is to find how something is alike and comparison is to find how something is different. Subject 1 Subject 3 Subject 2

What is … Details in a story that backs up or supports the main ideas. Main Idea Supporting Details

What is … Use surrounding words in a paragraph or sentence to help define the meaning of a n unknown word. WordCluesMeaning

What is… The most important idea expresses in a story. What the story is mostly or mainly about. Main Idea Details

What is … the order in which things or events happen in time. One event after the other. Last Event 2 nd Event 1 st event