Exam Terms

Internal Conflict: Beowulf and the battle against Grendel's mother.

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"

starting a story in the middle

"Susie is always late to class because she wants to get suspended" is an example of...

a character that undertakes a quest to achieve something of tremendous value to themselves or their society

Round characters have one or two personality traits while flat characters have many layers to their personalities.

simile

the central idea about the human experience revealed in a work of literature

the repetition of consonant sounds

two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature or history

archetype

a poetry form with a set rhyme scheme and 14 lines

Dialect is a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people.

Imagery: "The sun shone down upon the green, green grass."

that character or force that opposes the main character

Internal Conflict: Gatsby and his love for Daisy.

an error in judgement or a weakness that a character has

White Flag = Surrender is an example of a symbol

a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero

Jumbo shrimp is an example of an oxymoron.

Tone and mood are the same thing.

a metaphorical phrase used to name a person, place, thing, or event indirectly

Personification: "Her hair was golden like the sunset."

when the audience knows something that the characters in a story do not know