English I Final Exam Review Sheet

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Vocabulary flashcards covering rhetoric, literary terms, and MLA format.

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Rhetoric

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

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Ethos (ethics)

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

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Pathos (sympathy/empathy)

Persuasion through emotional appeal.

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Logos (Logic)

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

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Rhetorical Question

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

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Parallelism

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

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Restatement

An act of stating the same idea in different words

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Propaganda

Presenting one-sided information to promote an opinion.

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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.

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Denotation

The dictionary meaning of a word.

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Connotation

The positive or negative charge that a word may have.

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Context Clues

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

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Author’s purpose

The author’s reason for writing, which can be to Persuade, Inform, or Entertain.

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MLA Format

Guidelines for formatting academic papers, including font size, font type, spacing, margins, heading, header, citations and Works Cited page.

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Parenthetical Citation

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

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MLA Heading

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

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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.

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Titles

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.

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Speaker

The character or narrator of the poem.

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Stanza

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

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Rhyme Scheme

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

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External Rhyme

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

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Internal Rhyme

Is when words within a line of a poetry rhyme.

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Exact Rhyme

Is when the vowel sounds and ending sounds match.

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Slant Rhyme

Is a half rhyme or an approximate rhyme.

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Imagery

Creating an image with sensory descriptions.

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Tactile Imagery

Imagery that describes how something feels.

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Olfactory Imagery

Imagery that describes how something smells.

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Gustatory Imagery

Imagery that describes how something tastes.

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Hyperbole

Exaggeration.

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Personification

Giving human qualities to an object or an animal.

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Metaphor

A comparison between two different things.

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Extended Metaphor

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

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Simile

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

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Dialect

A regional way of speaking.

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Onomatopoeia

Words that sound like a sound.

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Foreshadowing

Hints or clues as to what happens next.

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Flashback

When a character remembers an event from an earlier time.

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Dramatic Irony

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

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Situational irony

Involves the result of a situation not matching with your expectations.

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Verbal Irony

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

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Situational irony

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

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Characterization

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

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Mood

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

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Tone

The author’s attitude toward the subject.

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Point of view

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

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Setting

Information about when and where the story takes place.

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Conflict

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

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Theme

The lesson the author wants the reader to learn.

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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.

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Rising action

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

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Climax

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

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Resolution

The solution to the conflict.