Test Review Unit 3: Suspense is the Spice of Life 9 th Grade Literature and Composition

Review Time! - Language What is Mood? the overall feelings or emotions that are created in the reader What is Tone? author ’ s attitude toward the subject/ author’s voice What is style? the way the author uses words, phrases, and sentences What is diction? Author’s word choice

Review Time! - Language What is setting? Time and place in the story What is slang? Nonstandard, colloquial language What is jargon? Language specific to a subject or science

Review Time! - Characterization What are the two types of characterization? Internal and External What is the difference between a flat and round character? Round = many characteristics/traits; Flat = only one characteristic/trait What is the difference between a static and dynamic character? Dynamic = changes; Static = no change What is the difference between the antagonist and the protagonist? Protagonist = main character; antagonist = opposing force/ antithesis

Review Time! - Plot What is the exposition? Background information/ beginning of the story What is the resolution/denouement? End of the story What are the two types of conflict? Internal and external What are the 3 types of external conflict? Man vs. Man; Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Society

Review Time – Determine the underlined word by context “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it; I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath a source of little visible delight, but necessary” (Bronte, Wuthering Heights). Leaves; plant life; trees Now the fields are brown and barren,/ Bitter autumn blows,/ And of all the stupid asters/ Not one knows” (Teasdale, “Wild Asters”). Infertile; sterile; not alive “After a prolonged absence at this stage of the entertainment, he at length came back with a casket of precious appearance containing twigs” (Dickens, Great Expectations). Long time, lengthy time

Review Time – Determine the underlined word by context “…for, being alone, Crooks could leave his things about, and being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men, and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back” (Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men). Collected, gathered “A spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals”(Garcia Marquez, “The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings). Agreed, condescended, stooped

Review Time! Name the Figure of speech “Pearl Button swung on the little gate in front of the House of Boxes. It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds playing hide-and-seek in it” (Mansfield, “How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped”). Personification “I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity” (Conrad, The Heart of Darkness). Hyperbole “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts” (Shakespeare’s As You Like It). Metaphor “I wandered lonely as a cloud/ that floats on high o’er vales and hills” (Wordsworth, “The Daffodils”). Simile

Review Time! Name the Figure of speech “When well-appareled April on the heel / Of limping winter treads” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet). Personification “Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster” (Dickens, A Christmas Carol). Simile