English final

Person who narrates something

A quality of being trusted in and believed in

Audience knows something characters don’t

When a character says one thing but really means the opposite

When actions or events have the opposite result of what is expected

Language designed to appeal to these senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound)

Hints in a sentence to help the ready identify a unfamiliar word

Simile- uses a comparison to describe

Metaphor-describes a object or action in a way that isn’t literally true (ex: life is a highway)

Personification-non humans characteristics by describing them with human attributes (ex: the sun smiled down on us)

Hyperbole-exaggerated statements (ex: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse)

Allusion-hint at something and expect the other person to understand (ex: chocolate cake is my Achilles heel)

Intention or purpose

Ex: all birds have wings, many children eat cereal for breakfast

in a objective rather than a bias way

Influence of person beliefs or feelings

Basic information about a subjects life

A persons life written by that person

Evidence of history (ex: constitutions, statues)

Created later by someone who did not see it first hand (ex: textbooks, articles)

A struggle that takes place inside a character

Struggle that takes place physically

A hint towards a future event

Something that happened in the past

Exposition- book’s introduction

Rising action-related series of events that lead towards the main idea

Climax-point of highest dramatic tension

Falling action-everything that takes place right after the climax

Resolution-end of the story

What is the story about?

What is the lesson?

identify conflicts and central ideas

Don’t be obvious

Don’t have it be one word

Uses words I/we

Uses words like YOU

Narrator tells the story from a single protagonist referring to them by name they/she/he

Narrator knows what the character is doing, thinking, or feeling

Person, place or thing

Causes action or movement

(Am, are, is, was, were, be, been, have, has, had, do, does, did, may, might, can, could, will, would, shall, should, must, being)

Modifies a noun

a, an, the

Give more information about how, where, when

Often end in LY

Sometime, someday, never, after, before, until, later, now, rather, somewhat, very, really, quite, too, so, somewhere, nowhere, everywhere, anywhere, elsewhere

Generally small words

(To, by, of, for, in)

Connect words or ideas in a sentence

And, but, for, nor, or, yet, so, although, because, while, wherever, unless

It’s missing something (ex: because of the rain.)

2 dimensional character with no depth

Many traits

Fits a stereotype

Character does not change

A character who changes in a major way