Covered in Class
This literary element includes not only time and place, but the historical context of a text's writing.
What is setting?
When someone provides an objective summary, they are probably giving these...without their own opinion.
What are FACTS!
The punctuation that ends a complete sentence and introduces a list or quote.
What is a colon?
This essay needs to address counterclaims.
What is argument?
These characters introduce us to the prophecy. Watch out! They play with demons...
Who are the witches/Weird Sisters?
A E S S S S
To test.
Assess
In this text, a Haitian-American woman uncovers her father's hidden past in Lakeland, Florida.
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to a non-human thing. So if I say "the ocean is taking a nap," it is only figuratively asleep.
What is personification?
This pronoun requires a the verb "to be" to be conjugated as "art".
What is thou?
What is expository?
This is a major idea presented in the play, in contrast to "Fate."
What is free will?
D E F I I N U
Brought together.
UNIFIED?
What is theme?
The latin roots "com" and "con" mean with or together. So these two words, meaning to show similarities and differences, of latin origins.
What are compare and contrast?
Two opposite words paired together to form a new combined meaning aren't stupid, they're THIS.
What is an oxymoron?
When you provide evidence, you must do this or you could end up in some real trouble.
What is cite sources?
In one of these kinds of speeches, Macbeth reveals his true feelings about his prophecy. In another, Lady Macbeth does the same thing.
What is a soliloquy?
A E N R T V
A place to eat and drink.
Déjà Vu! When reading a text, readers may feel that they saw something coming when an author uses this technique, where a writer hints at what will come later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
In literature, tension is the underlying feeling that something is about to happen. Whereas this literary element is the more obvious struggle between two characters or forces.
What is conflict?
What is an implied/deeper/subjective meaning?
These three ghostly visions that are shown to Macbeth from a cauldron are known as these.
A C E I L M T U U V
Added together.
Cumulative?
Characters may be this, in other words completely opposite in a way that points out how they are different.
1) In English I, you learned about commas.
2) In English II, you learned about colons.
3) Parallel structure will be taught in English III.
For now, it's this one of the 3 sentences that ruins the parallel structure.
What is sentence 3?
A correctly used semicolon (1) in this sentence (2) will be placed at this number (3), not anywhere else (4) that would be silly.
4
This is the general term for whom writing is written.
What is audience?
Banquo is this to Macbeth.
C A I N N N O O O T T
The implied or subjective meaning behind a word, as opposed to it's dictionary definition.
Connotation?