Honors English I Exam Review Flashcards

Flashcards for Semester 2 Exam Review covering fiction, literary analysis, poetry, pronoun use, word choice, punctuation, composition, and Shakespeare.

What is the literary term for a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art?

Allusion

What is the method of characterization where the author explicitly tells the audience about the character?

Direct Characterization

What is the method of characterization where the audience infers character traits through actions, speech, and appearance?

Indirect Characterization

What literary element involves the struggle between opposing forces?

Conflict

What is the literary device that involves a humorous use of a word or phrase?

Pun

What is the time and place in which the story occurs?

Setting

What is the underlying message or central idea of a literary work?

Theme

What is the attitude of the author or speaker towards the subject?

Tone

What literary element refers to the sequence of events in a story?

Plot

What part of the plot introduces the setting, characters, and basic situation?

Exposition

What part of the plot develops the conflict?

Rising Action

What part of the plot is the turning point of the story?

Climax

What part of the plot resolves the conflict and ties up loose ends?

Denouement

What is the use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story?

Foreshadowing

What is the difference between flat and round characters?

Flat characters are one-dimensional, while round characters are complex.

What is the difference between static and dynamic characters?

Static characters do not change, while dynamic characters undergo significant change.

What is irony?

The contrast between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected and what actually happens.

What is dramatic irony?

When the audience knows something that the characters do not.

What is verbal irony?

When someone says one thing but means another.

What is situational irony?

When the outcome is the opposite of what is expected.

What is an object, person, or idea that represents something else?

Symbol

What point of view is used when the narrator is a character in the story?

First person

What point of view is used when the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one character?

Third Person Limited

What point of view is used when the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters?

Third Person Omniscient

Who is the main character in a story?

Protagonist

Who is the character or force that opposes the main character?

Antagonist

What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

Alliteration

What is a 14-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter?

Sonnet

What is the turn in thought or emotion in a sonnet?

Volta

What is the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry?

Rhythm and Meter

What is a line of poetry that ends with a pause or complete stop?

End-stopped

What is the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line break?

Enjambment

What is a pause or break within a line of poetry?

Caesura

Which poetic device is exemplified by the words “Buzz” and “tweet”?

Onomatopoeia

What is a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?

Simile

What type of sentence error occurs when multiple independent clauses are improperly joined?

Run-on

What type of sentence error occurs when a sentence is missing a subject or a verb

Fragment

In essay writing, what is the sentence that states the main idea of a body paragraph?

Topic sentence

What is unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter?

Blank verse

What is a speech given by a character alone on stage?

Soliloquy

What is a brief comment a character makes, unheard by other characters on stage?

Aside

What is a long speech by one character?

Monologue

What is the literary term for quick, witty replies?

Repartee

What is a four-line stanza?

Quatrain

What is a pair of rhyming lines, usually at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet?

Rhyming couplet