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A person, animal, or creature in a literary work
Character
Comparison between two things that have some quality in common, without using like or as
Metaphor
A struggle within a character
Internal Struggle
A feeling that a literary work conveys to readers
Mood
Main character, may be a hero or heroine, with whom the audience tends to identify
Protagonist
This rhetorical device involves two unlike things being compared using like or as
Simile
The three main types of appeals (when speaking or arguing)
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
This rhetorical device involves the deliberate exaggeration of a situation. ex: He ate everything in the house.
Hyperbole
Descriptive language appealing to the senses
Imagery
Time, place, and physical characteristics of where a story takes place
Setting
A contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually exists or happens
Situational Irony
Expresses the writer's attitude toward his/her subject
This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to something which is commonly known. ex:'Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities'..
Allusion
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse
Stanza
How many Acts are in Romeo and Juliet?
5
Restating the content of a text in your own words by replacing some of the words to avoid plagiarizing but maintaining most of the same meaning is called...
Summarizing
Why does Fortunato go into the vaults?
A. to meet Montresor's ancestors
B. to find some peace of mind
C. to attend a meeting of masons
D. to prove his wine expertise
D. to prove his wine expertise
After eating these fruits, Odysseus' men no longer wish to go home
Lotus Flowers
A long poem, typically derived from oral tradition (The Odyssey is an example of this)
Epic Poem/Poetry
Which point of view is a form of writing in which the point of view of a narrative work is told in the voice of the onlooker
2nd person
Information that most people know or that is shared by a cultural or national group is called...
Common Knowledge
Name and explain the irony in the short story "Poison"
The irony is that Harry was afraid of a venomous snake when the only real poison in the story existed within him- the real "poison" is his racism.
The most common form of rhyme in poetry; the rhyme comes at the end of the lines
End Rhyme
Type of poem that has 3 lines; alternating 5, 7, 5 syllables
Haiku
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Propaganda