Dramatic irony is ...

When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character.

Describe a story with allegory

A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning.

familiar historical cultural, literary or biblical text

What is the crisis in a story?

The peak in the story's action or moment of serious tension.

Describe the characteristics of a story with allusion

Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical texts

What does allegory refer to?

A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning

What is a round character?

One that is well developed and is responsive to action.

What is Personification?

Gives inanimate objects or abstracs life or human characteristics

What is the purpose of a story's exposition?

Sets the story in motion, establishes the scene.

What is foreshadowing?

Introduction early in a story that hints of events to come.

A story that is central to a culture; embodies values of that culture.

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1
Dramatic irony is ...
The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean.
All of the answers
When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character.
2
What are the characteristics of Formal Diction?
Learned vocabulary
Elaborate complex sentenes
Serious and objective
All the answers are correct
3
A character is a fictional representative of a person with realistic depiction.
False
True
4
Describe a story with allegory
All of the answers
A story that is central to a culture.
Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical texts
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning.
5
Who is the main character in "This is what it means to say Phoenix AZ?"
Thomas Builds-the-Fire
Victor
Kathy
Norma
6
What is an allusion?
A story that is central to a culture
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning
familiar historical cultural, literary or biblical text
All of the answers
7
What is the crisis in a story?
The peak in the story's action or moment of serious tension.
When the writer introduces the characters.
The resolution or denouement.
The beginning of the story, sets it in motion.
8
Describe the characteristics of a story with allusion
Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical texts
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning.
None of the answers
A story that is central to a culture.
9
A flashback is used to examine events that took place earlier in a character's life.
True
False
10
What does allegory refer to?
Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical text
None of the answers
A story that is central to a culture
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning
11
What is a round character?
One that is well developed and is responsive to action.
A barely developed characters who is closely involved in he story.
A stereotypical charcter.
A character that reveals only one or two personality traits.
12
Why is it advantageous for writers to use first-person narrators?
Easier to write in the first person
Restricted view can create irony
Answers red and blue
More convincing
13
What is a Flat or Static Character?
All the answers
Barely developed
One or two personality traits
Stereotypical
14
What is Personification?
Two parallel and consistent levels of meaning 1) figurative; 1) literal
Gives inanimate objects or abstracs life or human characteristics
Familiar, historical, cultural or literal text
None of the answers.
15
What is the purpose of a story's exposition?
Sets the story in motion, establishes the scene.
Introduce new characters
Resolution or Denouement
Peak in the story's action
16
What features should a reader look for in determining the theme of a story?
The arrangement of of events in the story
The story's central conflict
The title of the story
All of the answers
17
What is foreshadowing?
The end of a story
A moment of considerable tension or importance in a story.
Introduction early in a story that hints of events to come.
Basic information, sets the story in motion, establishes the scene.
18
Describe a myth
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning.
A story that is central to a culture; embodies values of that culture.
Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical texts
19
What is the historical setting of The Things They Carried?
1950s San Francisco Earthquake
1930s Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots
1960s-1970s Vietnam War
None of the above
20
What type of character is Jim in "Big Black Good Man?"
Happy
Sad
Round
Static
21
What is the final stage of a plot?
The peak in a story's action.
The solution or denouement.
The characters are finally introduced.
The story is set in motion.
22
A "dynamic" character grows and changes in the story.
True
False
23
Metaphors and similies are figures of speech that compare dissimilar items.
True
False

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