Freshman English Semester Test Review

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when the audience or reader knows more about the characters situation than the character does

What is dramatic irony?

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Person, Place, thing, idea, quality

What is a noun

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Replaces nouns (We, He, sher)

What is a pronoun

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Show action

Verbs

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Describing words

Adjectives

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Describe verb

Adverbs

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Shows relationship between noun or pronoun or some other words in a sentence

Prepositions

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Connets words together

Conjuctions

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Word or group of words that express emotion

Interjections

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Summarizes what your gonna talk about in your essay

What is a thesis statement

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Expresses what each paragraph is about

What is a topic sentence

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Static, dynamic, round, flat

What are the character types

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The sturggle that moves action forward

What is Conflict

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Humorous scene that interrupts a scene filled with great excitement

What is comic relief

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Important hints that an author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come

What is foreshadowing

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exaggeration for affect

What is a Hyperbole

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Each line has five syllable pairs (totaling 10 syllables)

What is an Iambic pentameter

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use of vivid language to generate ideas and/or evoke emotion

What is imagery

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Sarcasm

What is Vebal irony

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Comparing two words without using like or as

What is a metaphor

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A pharse that combines two words that are not alike

What is an Oxymoron

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Gives the reader a brief overview a preview

What is a prolouge

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Humorous use of a word in a way that suggests two or more interpretations

What is a pun?

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Comparison of 2 things using the words like or as

What is a simile

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When a character speaks there thoughts outloud

What is a soliloquy

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Fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter

What is a sonnet

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insturctions given by the author to the actor

What are stage directions

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A story that has a catastrophe resolution

What is a tragedy

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The beginning of a story when the characters are introduced

What is the Exposition

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The events in story that build up to the climax or turning point

What is the rising action

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Turning point of the story

What is the climax

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The events in the story that flow from the climax or turning point to the end of the story

What is the falling action

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How the story ends

What is the resolution

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Poem that rhymes w

What is a rhymed verse?

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type of poem that uses more figurative language

What is a prose

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Couple who cant afford Christmas presents but sacrfice for each other and buy each other gifts

What is the gift of the magi about

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A man named ichabod crane who is a school teacher who is gullibale

What is the legend of sleepy hallow about

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Characters that stay the same throughout the story

What is a static character

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Characters who change in moral and personalities

What is a dynamic character

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main characters who are fully developed

What is a round character

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minor characters who are not involved in much of the plot

What is a flat character

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