1. English Semester Final

2.  Methods used by an author to create a character  Describe Squeaky in “Raymond’s Run.”

3.  The repetition of initial consonant sounds  “Great, green gobs of greasy, grimy…….”

4.  A struggle between two opposing forces revealed through the literary work  During “The Dinner Party,” an argument begins between the colonel and a young woman.

5.  Contrast between what is expected and what happens  In Eleven, it is Rachel’s birthday. “Today I’m eleven. There’s a cake Mama’s making for tonight….only it’s too late.”

6.  A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement  “I was so embarrassed; I could have died.”

7.  The central character, the focus of interest  Pandora is the main character in “Pandora’s Box.”

8.  The feeling created in the reader by a literary work  Comical, depressing, eerie

9.  The perspective from which a story is told; vantage point from which a story is told  First person: “I, me, my”  Ex: “I was ready for the big sailing trip with my dad.”  Third person limited: narrator not a character but focuses on thoughts and feelings of one character.  Third person omniscient: outside observer

10.  Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were something else  “Her mom held up five twenties, a blossom of green!”

11.  The time and place of the action of a literary work  The setting of Eleven is a school classroom.

12.  Anything that represents something else

13.  A reference to a well- known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art  “We are reading a very hard book…it’s called Robinson Crusoe.”

14.  Words that sound like their meanings  “The throbbing hum of the refrigerator”  “The bell clanged a warning.”

15.  Figure of speech in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics  “Hard times are always after a poor man.”

16.  A central message or insight into life  “Everyone needs to treat others in a kind way.”

17.  Figurative description or illustration  “I could almost taste the millet-and-water gruel.”

18.  To show, indicate or suggest  “Algernon died two days ago….I cried.”

19.  A rhetorical device or figure of speech in which contradictory or opposite words or concepts are combined for effect  “They used to call me Sweet Lemon Brown.”

20.  an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up  “Get in your room and hit those books now!”

21.  a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with like or as )  “The voice was high and brittle like dry twigs.”