Module 1 Mastery Week 4 English 3A Study Guide Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key literary concepts from the English 3A study guide, including archetypes, oral traditions, narratives, rhetorical terms, summarize techniques, and word usage.

Archetype

Something that all other similar ideas or objects that come up again and again in stories.

Oral Tradition

The sharing of stories, history, beliefs, and customs by speaking instead of writing.

Grimm Fairy Tales

The fairytales passed down in German folklore through generations that were told by family members to their children before the Grimm brothers recorded them.

Narrative

A story that tells a series of events that happened, usually told in chronological order (the order in which it happened).

Slave Narrative

A true story told or written by a formerly enslaved person.

Abolitionists

People who protested and worked to end slavery.

Rhetorical Question

A question asked to make a point or make people think, not to get an answer.

Rhetoric

The use of words to persuade or influence people.

Rhetorical

When words are used in a way that persuades or affects people.

Objective Summarizing

Briefly explaining the main ideas of a text using your own words without including your opinions or feelings.

Main Idea

The most important point or message in a text.

Objective

When something is based on facts, without including personal opinions or feelings.

Summarize

To briefly explain the most important ideas of a text in your own words.

Denotation

The dictionary definition.

Connotation

The meaning the author implies or suggests a feeling or meaning through context and how they use the word.

Infer

To guess, assume, or give a situation, text, or action a meaning or reason.

Inference

A smart guess you make using clues from a text and what you already know.

Context Clues

The hints or clues in the context that helps you figure out or understand something.

Archaic Words

Words no longer in common use in our language.

Complex Words

A word made of more than one part (morpheme), where there is a root, and there may be a prefix, a suffix, or it may be a compound of two words.

Contested Word Usage

When it's not clear it is the right word for the sentence or situation.