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What is an anecdote?
A very short related to the topic.
What is plot?
Sequence of events in a story
What is characterization?
The creation of a fictional character.
What is a stanza?
A section of lines in a poem.
A simile is...
A comparison using like or as
Explain flashback and flashforward.
Flashback-A triggered memory from the past.
Flash-forward- A scene or event from the future is inserted into the chronological events of the story.
"The man lived in a big blue house" Does this quote tell you the:
1.Mood
2.Setting
3.Plot
Setting
How can someone be ambiguous?
They are open to more than one interpretation.
A quatrain is a piece of a verse completed in __ lines.
4
What is this?
"The cyclist was two tired to win the race."
A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.”
What is a process you need to go through that is essential to making characters/writing a story.
Characterization
Describe internal and external conflict.
Internal- A struggle within a person's mind.
External- A struggle formed outside of the person's mind.
What are loaded words?
language used to influence the reader by using words beyond their meaning.
What is a poem with 14 lines called?
A sonnet
What type of figurative language is this?
"I heard sounds from heaven! I heard sounds from hell!"
Hyperbole
Who wrote, The House on Mango Street?
Sandra Cisneros.
What is "voice?"
The mixture of tone, word choice, point of view, syntax, punctuation, and rhythm that make up sentences and paragraphs.
Define all three.
Appeal to logic, appeal to emotion, and appeal to authority.
Appeal to logic- To appeal to the reader's sense of logic or reason.
Appeal to emotion- to win an argument by manipulating the emotions of the reader.
Appeal to authority- Authority of a topic used as evidence to support an argument.
What type of rhyme is this?
"Sauce and cost"
An approximate rhyme
What is assonance and what is consonance?
Assonance:repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in sentences, phrases, or words.
Consonance: combination of consonants.
How many chapters are in The Outsiders?
12
What are the three points of view?
Omniscient- All seeing and all knowing
First- person- When the narrator uses I, me, we, or us.
Third person limited- The narrator tells the story from the perspective of the single protagonist.
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone: The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience conveyed through word choice and the style of the writing.
Mood:The overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text often created by the author's use of imagery and word choice.
What is the definition of poetry?
A type of literature that is based on interplay of words and rhythm.
Name the 3 types of Irony.
Verbal- relating to and/o in a form of words.
Situational- A striking reversal of what is intended.
Dramatic- In a humorous or exaggerated way.