MidTerm Review
English 10
Literary Terms
Genre
A type of literature
Theme
Insight about life or human nature
Plot
Sequence of events in a story
Exposition
Introduces the characters, the setting, and the conflict.
Setting
When, where, and the time a story takes place
Character
Character - people or animals that take part in the action of a story
Flat Character - has one personality trait
Round Character - has many personality traits
Static Character - Stays the same throughout a story
Dynamic Character - Changes and learns a lesson in s story
Protagonist vs Antagonist
Protagonist - Main character
Antagonist - causes problems for the main character
Characterization
The way a writer develops and reveals a fictional figure’s history, personality, and inner life.
Direct Characterization: the writer simply tells the reader what a figure is actually like.
Indirect Characterization: the writer, or first person narrator, reports the facts and leaves the reader to interpret and judge a figure’s development.
Conflict
A struggle or problem in the story for the character
Resolution
Where/event the conflict is resolved
Climax
The turning point of the story; the highest point of suspense
Symbol
Something that represents something else
Dialogue
What characters speak
Foreshadow
Prediction or hints of what will happen
Flashback
When the author takes the reader back in time to a memory
Suspense
The tension that stories create, leaving the reader to wonder what will happen next
Mood
The overall feeling that a literary work or passage evokes in the reader.
Created by the writer’s choice of words and images, by the setting, and by the events in the work.
Gothic Literature
A literary genre that began in England in the late 1700s.
The term gothic was originally used as an architectural term. It refers to medieval buildings, such as castles and cathedrals, that were seen as dark and gloomy by later generations.
When writers began to set their stories in those buildings of the past, the term for architecture was applied to the literature.
Gothic Style
Bleak or remote settings
Characters in psychological and/or physical torment
Plots that involve weird or violent incidents and supernatural or other worldly occurrences
Strongly dramatic and intensely descriptive language
A gloomy, melancholy, or eerie mood
Symbolism that evolves ideas and feelings through repeated images
Magical Realism
A literary genre closely associated with some Latin America twentieth-century authors.
Magical realism combines two seemingly contrasting elements: reality and fantasy
By introducing supernatural or unreal elements into carefully observed depictions of real life, writres in this genre shock and surprise readers while also providing insightful commentary on human nature and perceptions.
Elements of Magical Realism
Recognizable characters who feel, act, and react in customary ways
Realistic settings that include ordinary details of everyday life
Fantastic events that coexist with realistic characters and actions
An accepting or unimpressed narrative tone, or attitude, that presents fantastic events as logical parts of life.
Modern Gothic
A literary genre that is rooted in the spooky elements of Gothic literature with some modern updates
Settings - contemporary and ordinary; makes the strange events more unsettling
Characters - ordinary; easily relatable
Plot - normal life that is interrupted in disturbing ways
Endings - ambiguous; leave the reader with unanswered questions
Interview
A structured conversation between two people
Presented either in written or in broadcast format and in question-and-answer format
Interviewer is usually a journalist; the interviewee is a person with special knowledge on a particular subject
Interviewee makes claims or assertions of a position or truth and supports those claims or assertions with fact-based evidence
NARRATIVE POETRY
A narrative poem relates a story in verse.
Like a narrator in prose fiction, the speaker of the poem is an imaginary voice that “tells” the story.
Interpreting a poem often depends on recognizing who the speaker is, whom the speaker is addressing, and what the speaker feels about the subject - his or her tone.
Literature
Can you Apply all of our literary terms to the following Short Stories ?
“Fall of the House of Usher”
“House Taken Over”
“Where is Here?”
Can you Apply all of our literary terms to the following Poems?
“Windigo”
“Beware: do not read this poem”
Can you Apply all of our literary terms to the following Interviews?
“Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?”
Can you Apply all of our literary terms to the following Novel ?
Lord of the Flies
Vocabulary
“Fall of the House of Usher ” p. 12
Annihilate
Antiquity
Fissure
Tumultuous
“House Taken Over ” p. 36
Spacious
Obscure
Muffled
“Where is Here? ” p. 68
Gregarious
Amiably
Stoical
“Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?” p. 90
Stimulus
Dissonance
Cognitive
Lord of the Flies
Hiatus
Tirade
Perilous
Somber
Impervious
Demure
Eccentric
Succulent
Taunt
Vexed
Suppress
Contrite
Writing and Grammar
Can you proofread for all of the following?
Spelling errors
Capitalization errors
Agreement errors
Sentence fragments
Run-ons
Passive voice verbs/to-be verbs
Commas
Can you use the following phrases as openers?
Prepositional phrases
Infinitive phrases
Gerund phrases
Appositive phrases
Participial phrases
Do you know the basic parts of an essay?
Funnel introduction
Attention grabber
Bridge
Thesis
Do you know the basic parts of an essay?
Body Paragraph
Topic sentence
Supporting sentences
Quotation integrations
Concluding sentence
Do you know the basic parts of an essay?
Inverted Funnel Conclusion
Reworded thesis
Summary sentences
Closure
Do you know basic MLA structure?
Correct Heading
Correct Header
Times New Roman 12 Font
Double Spacing
Citation format/parentheticals
Do you know How and When to use transitions?
Transitions within a paragraph
Trans. that show sequence
Trans. that introduce examples
Trans. that compare or contrast
Transitions between paragraphs
Paragraph hooks