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What is a dynamic character?
A character changes over the coures of the story
When two or more words begin with the same sound.
What is alliteration.
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence:
"Every seed is a heart, every heart
a minefield"
Metaphor
The part of the story when the setting and characters are introduced
The exposition
Identify this type of sentence and the verbals used:
While Woofy hates to swim, he loves all sorts of other physical activities like hiking, playing fetch, and chasing squirrels.
Complex
"While Woofy hates to swim"=dependent clause
"He loves all sorts of other physical activities like hiking, playing fetch, and chasing squirrels" = independent clause, notice only one subject/verb pair, -ing gerunds functioning as the compound object of the preposition "like"; "to swim" = inf. and is the Do
What is mood
A word that mean the opposite of another is called
What are antonyms
What is hyperbole?
An exaggeration for effect or emphasis. "I can smell pizza from a mile away" is an example.
Five examples of external conflict
1. Person vs. Person
2. Person vs. Nature
3. Person vs. Technology
4. Person vs. God/supernatural forces
5. Person vs. Society/Culture
The "equation" for figuring out an IO in a sentence
subject+verb+DO+to whom or for whom=IO
When a narrator uses the pronoun "he/she/it/they" and cannot see the thoughts of any characters.
Third Person Objective Point of View
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence
What is inference
The figurative device is used below:
"The apple apologizes
for those whose hearts bear too much zest
for heaven, the pomegranate
for the change that did not come
soon enough."
What is personification
Inciting incident
What is the moment in the story that sets the plot in motion/introduces the conflict?
The prepositional phrase and its function in the following sentence:
The best hiking paths run along burbling rivers.
along burbling rivers
(this answers where the paths run)
What is the mispalced or dangling modifier in the following sentence:
After having a picnic in the park, the grass was covered in trash.
Dangling: "After having a picnic in the park" is mistakingly describing grass.
A character that contrasts sharply with another character in order to highlight specific traits, or reveal or emphasize information.
The difference between a symbol and imagery
A symbol is a word, object, or image that represents something else. Imagery is vivid descriptions that create a picture in your mind
The fire in the beginning of Lord of the Flies when the boy with the mulberry birthmark dies is an example of this literary device.
Foreshadowing
It hints at the big fire at the end used to smoke out and almost kill Ralph. Both fires show the violence and destruction the boys are capable of.
List and Define Demonstrative pronouns
Point to something specific; this, that, these, those
Find two mistakes in the following sentence:
Because the path is overgrown the group of children are lost in the woods.
No comma between the dependent clause that begins the sentence and the indpenedent clause. Incorrect subject/verb agreement group=singluar are=plural
Another name for an author's word choice.
What is diction?
Conceptual, an idea
What is abstract?
What theme(s) does the motif of the moon show, and why is that theme so meaningful for Merricat?
The moon represents Merricat's safe place, where she is isolated from the dangers of the outside world that have historically proven life threatening for her and Constance. Merricat is able to use her "magic," aka her female power, to create this otherworldly, protected space on Earth where she and Constance are completely independent from men.
Find the dependent clause in the following sentence and identify its function:
After giving his cousin a curly pig tale, Harry realized that he was not like other children.
"that he was not like other children" is a noun clause functioning as the DO.
When the narrator can see the thoughts of only the protagonist and uses "he/she/they" the test is written in this perspective.
What is 3rd person limited omniscient?
Another word for sentence structure
What is syntax
The words for four kinds of imagery that correspond to the senses
tactile, olefactory, visual, gustatory
What is a key theme expressed by the motif of food in WHALIC? Please give a specific example.
The power of women to care for their families and enable their survival through food (or facilitate their demise) is symbolized by the jars of preserves in the cellar. The image also elevates what is traditionally derided as women's work.
Identify the verbal phrase and its function in the following sentence:
Known for its odd angle, The Leaning Tower of Pisa is often featured on pizza boxes in the U.S..
"Known for its odd angle" is a participle which are ALWAYS adjectives