<p> 1 Name: ______Period: ______Date: ______</p><p>Weeks 1-24 STUDY GUIDE (100 points!!!)</p><p>Directions: Write the correct word from the Word Bank on the appropriate line.</p><p>A. Acronym B. Ballad C. Blank Verse D. Allegory E. Analogy</p><p>1. ______: a song that tells a story, often a story about love, death, or betrayal.</p><p>2. ______: a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike in some respects. 3. ______: A word formed based on the initial letters or syllables of other words.</p><p>4. ______: A story with double meaning: a primary meaning or surface meaning (something obvious): and a secondary meaning or an under the surface meaning (something not obvious, but understood with more research).</p><p>5. ______: This consists of unrhymed five-stress lines; properly, iambic pentameters. It has become the most widely used of English verse forms and is the one closest to the rhythms of everyday English speech.</p><p>Directions: Please write True or False on the appropriate line. </p><p>6. ______Analysis: A type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both, often by a process of disillusionment.</p><p>7. ______Characterization: The method used by a writer to develop a character.</p><p>8. ______Coming-of-age story: Its commonest use is as a title or explanation, usually in a brief paragraph, which is put above a picture, diagram, cartoon, or any kind of illustration.</p><p>9. ______Climax: A detailed splitting up and examination of a work for literature. A close study of the various elements and the relationship between them. An essential part of criticism.</p><p>10. ______Cliché: An over- used expression, which is life-less. </p><p>11. ______Caption: The part of a story or play, at which a crisis/debacle/problem is reached.</p><p>Directions: Write the correct word from the Word Bank on the appropriate line. A. Composition B. Comparative Literature C. Colloquy</p><p>D. Comic Relief E. Conflict</p><p>12. In my ______class, I noticed the Asian fables were close to the Native American ones.</p><p>13. I wrote a ______about today’s political issues and how I cannot see the nation’s economy improving in the next five years.</p><p>14. The play had an interesting ______between the antagonist and the protagonist.</p><p>15. In the tv show, the Simpsons there is always ______.</p><p>Created by Christine Shepherd ©2013 2</p><p>16. In drama class you will have ______in a play. </p><p>Directions: Match the correct word from the Word Bank on the appropriate line.</p><p>17.______: Strong prejudice against a particular A. Abstract group of people. B Bibliography C. Alliteration 18. ______: A list of books, essays, and D. Bigotry monographs on a subject; or a list of works of E. Allusion a particular author. This is usually found at the end of a paper.</p><p>19. ______: Not concrete. It does not specify one person and may not be entirely true. In a visual form maybe something like a Picasso. All the shapes and colors mix to look like a human, but very well could be something else. </p><p>20. ______: A reference to another work of literature, art, to a person, science, pop culture, music, locations, or a historical event. </p><p>21. ______: Consonants, at the beginning of the words, are repeated in a sentence. Example: Red Ribbon.</p><p>Directions: Please write True or False on the appropriate line.</p><p>22. ______: Atmosphere: The mood and feeling, the intangible quality which appeals to extra sensory perception. “Show, not tell” feeling.</p><p>23. ______: Annotation: Textual comment in a book. It may consist of a reader’s comment in the margin, or printed explanations done in note form, provided by the editor.</p><p>24. ______: Abridged Edition: A condensed version of a work. It may be done to save space or to cut out passages which are thought unsuitable for some sections of the reading public. </p><p>25. _____: Ambiguity: A nonfiction story about someone and told by another.</p><p>26_____ : Autobiography: where a word, term, notation, sign, symbol, phrase, sentence, or any other form used for communication.</p><p>27______: Biography: A nonfiction story about someone else and told by another.</p><p>28_____: Addendum: An addition or an appendix to a book.</p><p>29______:Assonance: In drama or fiction this type of character opposes the hero or protagonist.</p><p>30. ______:Antagonist: Repetition of similar vowel sounds, to achieve a particular effect in the same sentence.</p><p>Flip to the next page…. You’re not done yet!</p><p>Created by Christine Shepherd ©2013 3</p><p>Directions: Fill in the blank line with the correct word from the Word Bank. A. Contrast B. Couplet C. Connotation D. Critique E. Copyright</p><p>31.______: If you say “that girl is cool” and you mean she is nice.</p><p>32 ______.: The juxtapositions of disparate or opposed images, ideas, or both, to heighten or clarify a scene, theme or episode. To show a difference.</p><p>33.______: Until the middle of the 16th century authors had little or no protection against plagiarism, or downright filching and pirating. When this became a serious problem printers’ guilds were granted rights to protect their members. The first English copyright law dates from 1709. Under the 1956 Act the copyright covers an author’s life-time and 50 years thereafter.</p><p>34.______: A poetic term of two successive rhyming lines. </p><p>35.______: A detailed review and assessment of a literary work.</p><p>Directions: Fill in the blank line with the correct word from the Word Bank. A. Dialogue B. Denotation C. Description D. Dramatic Monologue E. Dialect</p><p>36. ______is the most literal and limited meaning of a word</p><p>37. ______is an effective way to show a character’s inside thoughts.</p><p>38. When two characters communicate to each other in a play or novel it is known as ______.</p><p>39. The author gave vivid ______to introduce his setting. </p><p>40. The phrase “ya’ll” is commonly used in the south and is considered a type of ______.</p><p>Directions: Write True or False if the word underlined is used correctly or incorrectly.</p><p>41.____ A Hyperbole has a compliment character that displays the other’s attributes by comparison. </p><p>42. ____ Nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and myth are examples of genres in literature.</p><p>43. ____The novel gave away it’s ending too much with the additional foreshadowing that was not needed.</p><p>44. ____Robin is a classic foil to Batman. </p><p>45. ____When the audience knows what will happen, but a character does not it is dramatic irony.</p><p>46.____ A Haiku is a 17 line poem. </p><p>47. ____ Imagery is language that evokes the five senses. </p><p>48. ____ When two random objects move in parallel to stimulate creativity it is called Juxtaposition.</p><p>49. ____ “He ran like a hare down the street” is an example of figurative language.</p><p>50. ____ An exposition does not give information, define, or clarify an idea.</p><p>Created by Christine Shepherd ©2013 4</p><p>Directions: Fill in the blank line with the correct word from the Word Bank.</p><p>A. Hubris B. Flat Character C. Ethos D Idiom E. Fable</p><p>51. A character is said to have ______if his pride leads to his downfall. </p><p>52. A ______is one who does not change or alter his or her personality over the course of a narrative</p><p>53. An ______uses personified animals or inanimate objects to send a message or moral.</p><p>54. ______Ethics!</p><p>55. “It’s raining cats and dogs” is an example of an ______. </p><p>Directions: Fill in the blank line with the correct word from the Word Bank.</p><p>A. Epilogue B. Epithet C. Flashback D. Epic E. Euphemism </p><p>56. If I have to go number two that’s a ______for needing to use the restroom.</p><p>57. I had a ______of my mother’s cooking.</p><p>58. An ______is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, that usually brings closure to the work.</p><p>59 “America the Beautiful” is an example of an ______.</p><p>60. A Long story told in elevated language (usually poetry), which related the great deeds of a larger- than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society is called an ______.</p><p>Directions: The examples should match the term. Pick the one that fits best!</p><p>61. A ______reveals a kind of truth, which at first seems contradictory. a. Prologue b. Tone c. Paradox d. Narrator</p><p>62. To use logic in order to justify a point of view is known as: a. Logos b. Lament c. Metaphor d. Point of view</p><p>63. The voice, or person who is telling a story. a. Point of View b. Motif c. Narrator d. Myth</p><p>64. “The bees drank the honey” is an example of a: a. Monologue b. Metaphor c. Flashback d. Ethos</p><p>65. If I write from an omniscient perspective and change to third person, it will really mess up the style of my writing. a. Point-of-view b. Round Character c. Narrator d. Flat Character</p><p>66. Organization is a recurrent thematic element in Shepherd’s class!</p><p>Created by Christine Shepherd ©2013 5 a. Mood b. Motif c. Narrator d. Myth</p><p>67. Describes an array of cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. a. Modernism b. Epilogue c. Dialogue d. Blank Verse</p><p>68. The ninja sat around and began to ______over the loss of his friend. a. Allude b. Assonance c. Tone d. Lament</p><p>69. After reading the short story I determined that the ______was serious. a. Motif b. Myth c. Mood d. Narrator</p><p>70. A ______is a traditional story that usually serves to explain a belief, ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon. a. Biography b. Analogy c. Tone d. Myth</p><p>71. Biographies and Autobiographies are examples of ______. a. Allegory b. Nonfiction c Anagram d. Allusion</p><p>72. “Buzz Buzz” is an example of: a. Onomatopoeia b. Narrator c. Hubris d. Anagram</p><p>73. Lots of television ads use ______to appeal to a person’s emotion. a. Paradox b. Pathos c. Logos d. Lament</p><p>74. That imitation of me was humorous for all involved. ______a. Parody b. Hubris c. Pun d. Connotation</p><p>75. “Living Dead” is an example of a ______. a. Tone b. Mood c. Metaphor d. Oxymoron</p><p>76. ______are punny! a. Puns b. Logos c. Haiku d. Pathos</p><p>77. There was much discussion, evaluation, and interpretation also known as ______in my English class. a. Literary Criticism b. Analogy c. Myth d. Mood</p><p>78. The ______is intended to introduce a drama. a. Prologue b. Conflict c. Plot d. Epilogue</p><p>79. To give human-like qualities to inanimate objects is called: a. Mood b. Personification c. Copyright d. Euphemism</p><p>80. The main character in a story is known as the ______. a. Flat Character b. Protagonist c. Parody d. Antagonist </p><p>Directions: Fill in the blank line with the correct word from the Word Bank. A. Prose B. Realism C. Rhyme D. Round Character E. Satire</p><p>81. ______: is a character who changes or evolves over the course of a narrative or appears to have the capacity for such change, the character is also dynamic.</p><p>82. ______: is writing that resembles everyday speech.</p><p>Created by Christine Shepherd ©2013 6 83. ______: a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the attack.</p><p>84. ______: in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation.</p><p>85. ______: Repetition of accented vowel sounds, and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem.</p><p>Directions: Fill in the blank line with the correct word from the Word Bank.</p><p>A. Setting B. Short Story C. Simile D. Soliloquy E. Sonnet</p><p>86. ______: fourteen-line lyrics poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.</p><p>87. ______: Long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.</p><p>88. ______: is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as.</p><p>89. ______: The time and place of a story or play</p><p>90. ______: short, concentrated, fictional prose narrative.</p><p>Directions: Write True or False if the word underlined is used correctly or incorrectly.</p><p>91. ______A Stereotype is sometimes referred to as a "B story" or a "C story" and so on, is a secondary plot strand that is auxiliary to the main plot. </p><p>92. ______A symbol is a person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.</p><p>93. ______The speaker is a voice that is talking to us in a poem.</p><p>94. ______The subplot is a simplified and/or standardized conception or image with specific meaning, often held in common by people about another group</p><p>96. ______A theme is a play that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end. Example: Romeo and Juliet.</p><p>97. ______The speaker’s tone is the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective.</p><p>98. ______A Tragedy is a broad idea in a story, or a message or lesson conveyed by a work. This message is usually about life, society or human nature. </p><p>99. ______Wit is a form of intellectual humor.</p><p>100. ______Voice is the writer’s or speaker’s distinctive use of language in a text.</p><p>Created by Christine Shepherd ©2013</p>