Sound Devices
The repetition of sounds in initial stressed syllable
ex. "She sells sea shells by the sea shore."
Alliteration
The conversation of characters in a literary work; typically enclosed within quotation marks, and in plays, characters' speech is preceded by their names.
What is dialogue?
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story
(don't overthink it)
What is a narrative?
The main character in a work, on whom the author focuses most of the narrative attention.
What is the protagonist?
What is the synonym for the word in bold?
Though related to horses, zebras are more recalcitrant than their domesticated cousins. Their propensity for kicking and biting helps them elude dangerous natural predators, including lions and hyenas. Such unruly behavior has also made them extremely hard to capture and tame.
Unruly
The repetition of vowel sounds.
Ex. "Bow down and don't have a cow."
Assonance
An author's deliberate use of hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes that do not develop until later in the narrative
What is foreshadowing?
A story about the origins of a culture's beliefs and practices, or of supernatural phenomena, usually derived from oral tradition and set in an imagined supernatural past.
(Think back to unit 1...)
What is a myth?
A narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as "I."
What is first person point of view?
What is the meaning of the word nefarious as used in the passage?
Grimm's Fairy Tales, first published in the early nineteenth century, contained more than two hundred folktales, some of which, such as "Snow White" and "Cinderella," are still well known today. The original tales are often marked by violence and filled with nefarious characters; the characters in the family-friendly versions we know today are often quite unlike those evil figures.
a) unfamiliar/ peculiar
b)various/diverse
c)vile/wicked
C
The repetition of consonant sounds in the same line.
ex. "The night was dark but the moon was bright."
Consonance
used to convey the progress of action of the play, by means of expressing a character’s thoughts about a certain character or past, present, or upcoming event, while talking to himself without acknowledging the presence of any other person.
What is a soliloquy?
A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds clearly and directly to symbolic meaning.
Example: The Crucible
What is an allegory?
The narrator remains outside the story and knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one or a handful of characters
What is third person limited?
What is the synonym for the word in bold?
American advertisements from the 1950s have been widely accused of deprecating women by depicting them as housebound and passive. However, some have argued that, rather than belittling women, many ads portrayed them as capable and independent, both inside and outside the home.
Belittling
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Ex. "The bee buzzed."
Onomatopoeia
When a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage. They are useful for giving the audience special information about the other characters onstage or the action of the plot.
What is an aside?
The plot structure of a short story (name the steps up and down the mountain!)
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc
What is indirect characterization?
What is the meaning of the word eschewed as used in the passage?
The early twentieth-century artists who painted in the cubist style intentionally avoided creating realistic images. They eschewed traditional three-dimensional perspective, portraying a fractured, two-dimensional reality in which people, objects, and landscapes were broken down into angular shapes.
a) were attracted to
b)misunderstood
c)kept away from
C
Name this rhyme scheme using letters.
"
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads"
AABBCC
A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events--usually in the form of a character's memories, dreams, narration, or even authorial commentary
What is a flashback?
Name the literary periods from start to finish
Puritan, Rationalism, Transcendentalism, Light/Dark Romanticism, Realism
A fundamental and universal idea explored in a literary work
What is theme?
Identify the synonym. What is the meaning of the word vacillating as used in the passage?
The editorial board of the architecture magazine devoted most of their meeting to the theme of the next issue, wavering between "functional design" and "the functional perspective." They finally went in a completely new direction—"designing the unknown"—so the hour they spent vacillating had essentially been wasted.
a)discussing thoroughly
b)being indecisive
c)arguing heatedly
Wavering; B