Drama
What is the definition of conflict? What are the six types?
what is- a struggle between opposing forces and what is- person vs. self, person vs. person, person vs. nature, person vs. fate, person vs. society
What is ryhme scheme?
Choose the best imagery definition
A. A technique using descriptive details from the five senses
B. A way of seeing things in a new light
C. A way of to describe a character's emotions
What is- A
What is theme?
What is- the lesson the author is trying to teach the reader.
What are the letters in the acronym TPCASTT
What is Title, Paraphrase, Conotation, Attitude, Shift, Title, Theme
What are stage directions? And Why do playwrights include them?
What is- instructions for how the drama is to be performed. Playwrights include them to help the audience and readers understand what is going on (setting, time period, conflicts, plot etc.)
What was the "tone" or attitude of "A Minor Bird" and did it shift?
The Author's tone at the beginning was annoyed and it shifted to guilt.
His words felt like a dagger in my heart is an example of ( ) and ( )
What is Similie and Imagery
What is the denotation meaning for "shadow"? What was the conotative meaning for shadow in "Eldorado"?
What is "a dark shape" and "Ghost"
True or False: You always choose the first answer you believe is correct
Define setting. Can settings change? Give me examples of two settings from "The Birthmark".
What is- the time and place the events of a story takes place and yes.. What is "The parlor", "Alymer's labratory", "Alymer and Gerogiana's bedroom", "The dining hall" etc.
What are the primary actions that take place in the three stanzas of "The Song of Wandering Aengus"?
What is 1- Aengus makes a fishing rod and catches a silver trout. 2- The trout turns into a girl who calls his name and then runs away. 3- He grows old dreaming of finding the girl
The rain "drizzled" down for hours on end and The metal "clanged" in the wind are examples of
What is- onomatapoeia
What is the difference between mood and tone?
What is- mood is the feeling the poem creates for the reader. Tone is the author's attitude towards the subject presented.
Paraphrase the following stanza from "Eldorado"
But he grew old
The knight so old
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado
The tree cast an eerie shadow. The word cast has multiple (conotations) meanings. In this sentence cast means to cause light or shadow to appear. Write down 3 other meanings for the word cast.
What are- Voting, shaping something (molding), throwing fishing line, to cause a magic spell, a bandage used for broken bones, the actors in a play
Who is the speaker-the person telling the story- in "The song of Wandering Aengus" How do you know? What about in "Eldorado"? Who is telling that story? How do you know?
Who is- Aengus, he's using first person language (I went, I had laid, my name, my head etc). and who is- 3rd person unknown- using 3rd person language (the knight, he, his, him, the shade, you)
Find an example of "repetition" from "Eldorado" or "Song of Wandering Aengus"
What is "Shadow", "Eldorado", "Hollow lands, Hilly Lands", or "Apple Blossom, Apples of the moon, Apples of the sun"
Down the valley of the shadow. What does this line suggest and what mood does it create?
What is "the end of a quest, despair" and "melancholy and despairing"
What is the acronym RACE mean
What is
restate the question
answer the question
cite your source
explain your answer
Static characters do not change during a story unlike a dynamic character. In the Birthmark, who is the dynamic character? How do you know?
Who is- Georgiana, at the beginning she loves her birthmark but towards the end she starts to hate it and feels ugly and depressed because Aylmer thinks its ugly.
What was the theme for "Eldorado"? Think about who the knight represents and what "Eldorado" represents?
What is- people who try to reach unattainable goals... the knight= humans trying to reach goals no matter the obstacle, Eldorado= unattainable goals or Heaven
"And When White moths were on the wing" and "I went out to the hazel wood" are examples of?
What is alliteration
What was the theme of "Birthmark"? What was the theme for "A Minor Bird"?
What is "its foolish to focus on people's imperefections" and "don't let life's little problems get to you".
True or false- I should rush through this test, not use my reading startegies, refuse to use a dictionary, and guess on every answer.
What is- false