Term Review – First Set (1-9)  Rhythm  Rhyme  Hyperbole  Enjambment  Metaphor  Simile  Repetition  Personification  Tone

1  A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things/objects that are poles apart but have some characteristics common between them.

Metaphor

2  A figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

Hyperbole

3  A literary device that repeats the same words/phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.

Repetition

4  An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words/viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.

Tone

5  A repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs.

Rhyme

6  A thought or sense, phrase or clause in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break but moves over to the next line.

Enjambment

7  A figure of speech in which a thing, idea or animal is given human attributes.

Personification

8  A figure of speech that makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things. Draws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as.”

Simile

9  Demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form.

Rhythm

Term Review – Second Set (10- 15)  Plot  Exposition  Rising Action  Climax  Falling Action  Resolution

10  The series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax.

Rising Action

11  All of the action which follows the climax.

Falling Action

12  The structure of a story; the causal arrangement of events and actions within a story.

Plot

13  The turning point. The most intense moment (either mentally or in action).

Climax

14  The conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads.

Resolution

15  The start of the story. The way things are before the action starts.

Exposition

Term Review – Third Set (16-22)  Theme  Character  Dynamic Character  Static Character  Character Motivation  Setting  Imagery

16  Individuals that participate in the action

Character

17  Remains the same throughout the story.

Static Character

18  Used to identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story

Setting

19  Undergoes some kind of change as the plot unfolds.

Dynamic Character

20  Intention or desire that causes him or her to act in a particular way.

Character Motivation

21  When the authors uses words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader

Imagery

22  A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly

Theme

Term Review – Fourth Set (23- 27)  Point of View  First Person  Second Person  Third Person Omniscient  Third Person Limited

23  Involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “we”

First Person

24  The narrator adheres closely to one character’s perspective

Third Person Limited

25  Employs the pronoun “you”

Second Person

26  The mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, essay, etc.

Point of View

27  Narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story

Third Person Omniscient

Term Review – Fifth Set (28-34)  Conflict  Internal Conflict  External Conflict  Man vs. Man  Man vs. Society  Man vs. Nature  Man vs. Self

28  Arises as soon as a character experience two opposite emotions or desires.  Hint: The larger category

Internal Conflict

29  The main character fights to endure or overcome forces of nature

Man vs. Nature

30  Two characters against each other

Man vs. Man

31  When a character finds himself in struggle with outside forces

External Conflict

32  The main character challenges a law, tradition or institution

Man vs. Society

33  The struggle inside one’s head  Hint: The Sub-Category

Man vs. Self

34  A struggle between two forces

Conflict

Stories in Review (35-40)  The Interlopers  Harrison Bergeron  Searching for Summer  By The Waters of Babylon  There Will Come Soft Rains  A Sound of Thunder

35  A future priest sets out on a journey east to gain knowledge. What he discovers is that their gods were just people and the Place of the Gods is New York City.

By The Waters of Babylon

36  A fourteen year old boy breaks free from his handicaps and declares himself Emperor to show people that total equality always suppresses our potential.

Harrison Bergeron

37  After nuclear war, a technologically- advanced house keeps going about its duties, until Nature burns it down.

There Will Come Soft Rains

38  Eckles goes on a dinosaur hunt in the far past, only to alter the future forever by stepping on a butterfly.

A Sound of Thunder

39  In a world where sunshine and blue skies are hidden behind the clouds of nuclear fallout, a recently married couple finds a bit of sun with a generous old lady and her blind son.

Searching for Summer

40  Two enemies meet in the disputed forest, only to get trapped under a falling tree limb. Of course, once they make their peace, they are eaten by wolves.

The Interlopers

Put the Pieces of a Plot Diagram in order!  41  42  43  44  45