Unit 1
Glossary
What is similar to a dictionary but often contains specialized terms with more information?
Inclined to be silent or quiet
What is taciturn?
The front part of the head
What is visage?
To bestow or leave by will
What is bequeath?
Energetic and happy in an attractive way
What is vivacious?
Overarching message or truth that is specific to a story
What is Central Idea?
Commonly used character types and situations
What is archetypes?
Ambiguity
What are unclear or uncertain meanings, or have multiple interpretations?
Authors or characters values, attitudes, or opinions
What is perspective?
Humor
What is adds wit, sarcasm, and comedic quality?
Hints at action or event that has not happened yet
What is foreshadowing?
Apostrophe
What is an approach in which the writer or speaker in a work addresses a character in the work directly?
Read the excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels.
After about two hours the court retired, and I was left with a strong guard, to prevent the impertinence, and probably the malice of the rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me as near as they durst; and some of them had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me, as I sat on the ground by the door of my house, whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye.
Example of understatement
What is "to prevent the impertinence?
Impertinence means a lack of courtesy or respect.
Inference
What is an educated guess?
Emotion filled setting descriptions
What is the tone of the setting?
How does pacing affect a story?
What is pacing allows the author to speed up or slow down a story to direct the reader's attention elsewhere in the plot?
Theme
What is the universal truth the author portrays through characters and plot?
Which are elements of narrative text?
Motivation
Conflict
Setting
Metaphor
What are conflict and setting?
What kind of connotation does exhilarated have?
Positive
Negative
What is positive?
Interpretations of short poems
What are paintings and audio recordings?
Mary coveted the bright and soft cardigan her friends always carried with her.
Using context clues, what does coveted mean?
What is the desire to possess someone's items? Based on words bright and soft which
Sarcasm
Irony
Understatement
What are literary devices containing meaning different from what is directly stated?
Which option most accurately defines satire?
Satire is the use of literary techniques, such as sarcasm and exaggeration, to hide the embarrassing faults of others.
Satire is the use of literary techniques, such as humor or irony, to expose the foolishness of others.
Satire is a situation in which events or outcomes are the opposite of what was expected.
Satire is a situation that an author creates by trivializing important facts.
What is satire is the use of literary techniques, such as humor or irony, to expose the foolishness of others?
Which describes personification?
a word that is symbolic of human intellect
a word that is symbolic of human emotions
assigning human characteristics or qualities to non-human things
assigning non-human characteristics or qualities to human things
What is assigning human characteristics or qualities to non-human things?
Common characteristics of the gothic romance genre
What are spiral staircases, idealized women, supernatural elements, pale complexions