English I Final Exam Review

Flashcards for English I Final Exam Review Sheet focusing on Rhetoric, MLA Format, Poetry, and Literary Terms.

Rhetoric

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

Ethos (ethics)

Persuasion through the speaker’s or writer’s education, experience, trustworthiness, likability and motivation.

Pathos (sympathy/empathy)

Persuasion through emotional appeal.

Logos (Logic)

Persuasion through logic argument; involving reasoning, facts, statistics, expert opinion, research/studies.

Rhetorical Question

A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Parallelism

Using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence.

Propaganda

Presenting one sided information to promote an opinion.

Restatement

An act of stating the same idea in different words.

Loaded Language/Emotive Language/ Emotional Appeal

Using strong, emotionally charged language; words with positive and negative associations to those words that draws attention to the point.

Denotation

The dictionary meaning of a word.

Connotation

The positive or negative charge that a word may have.

Context Clues

Hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.

Author’s purpose

The author’s reason for writing (Persuade, Inform, Entertain).

MLA Format

Size 12 font, Times New Roman, Double-spaced, heading, header, citations and Works Cited page with a one inch margin around the paper, except for the header, which is a half inch front the top of the page.

Parenthetical Citation

Is the in-text citation, which follows a quote in the text/paragraph to give credit to the source, including the author’s last name and the page number.

MLA Heading

Your name, the teacher’s name, the class, & the date.

Header

Is your last name a half inch down from the top of the page in the right corner with a sequential number for each page

Titles (MLA)

Titles of small writings (articles, short stories, poems, songs, speeches) are identified with “quotation marks” & titles of long writings (books, plays, newspapers) are underlined. Both small writings and longs writings can be italics.

Speaker (Poetry)

The character or narrator of the poem.

Stanza (Poetry)

A group of lines that are surrounded by extra spaces in a poem.

Rhyme Scheme (Poetry)

Is the pattern of rhyme in a poem as identified by lowercase letters.

External Rhyme (Poetry)

Is when words at the end of a line of a poetry rhyme.

Internal Rhyme (Poetry)

Is when words within a line of a poetry rhyme.

Exact Rhyme (Poetry)

Is when the vowel sounds and ending sounds match.

Slant Rhyme (Poetry)

Is a half rhyme or an approximate rhyme.

Imagery (Literary Terms)

Creating an image with sensory descriptions such as tactile, olfactory, and gustatory.

Hyperbole (Literary Terms)

Exaggeration.

Personification (Literary Terms)

Giving human qualities to an object or an animal.

Metaphor (Literary Terms)

A comparison between two different things.

Extended Metaphor (Literary Terms)

A comparison between two different things that continues over multiple lines or sentences.

Simile (Literary Terms)

A comparison between two different things, containing the words “like” or “as”.

Dialect (Literary Terms)

Is a regional way of speaking.

Onomatopoeia (Literary Terms)

Words that sound like a sound.

Foreshadowing (Literary Terms)

Hints or clues as to what happens next.

Flashback (Literary Terms)

When a character remembers an event from an earlier time.

Dramatic Irony (Literary Terms)

When one or two characters and audience know something that the other characters do not.

Verbal Irony (Literary Terms)

The speaker intends to be understood as meaning the opposite of the usual meaning of what the speaker’s actual words.

Situational irony (Literary Terms)

When the outcome is the opposite or completely different from what was expected.

Characterization (Literary Terms)

Learning information about a character through their thoughts, words, actions, how they treat others and how they are treated.

Mood (Literary Terms)

The feeling created/evoked in the reader by a text.

Tone (Literary Terms)

The author’s attitude toward the subject.

Point of view (Literary Terms)

The view in which the story is told (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient).

Setting (Literary Terms)

Information about when and where the story takes place.

Conflict (Literary Terms)

The struggle between two opposing forces (Character vs. Character, Character vs. society, Character vs. nature, Character vs. self).

Theme (Literary Terms)

The lesson the author wants the reader to learn.

Setting

The place or type of surroundings where a story is or an event takes place and the time period in which the story takes place.

Rising action

A series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the climax.

Climax

The most exciting part of the story, and many times when the character makes an important decision.

Resolution

The solution to the conflict