Communications Methodology Honors II Final Exam Review

Question 1

Introduces background information to the audience. Establishes setting,characters, time, etc.

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Exposition

Question 2

Narrator in "Araby" thinking that buying a gift for his older crush will make her love him

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Innocence

Question 3

Figurative language in which the intended meaning differs from the literal meaning.

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Irony

Question 4

Dramatic representation of serious actions that culminate for the protagonist in the play.

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Tragedy

Question 5

The cause and effect sequence of events and actions in a story/narrative.

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Plot

Question 6

A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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Iamb

Question 7

The grouping of a fixed number of verse lines in a recurring metrical and rhyme pattern.

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Stanza

Question 8

General term covering the many ways in which language is used nonliterally.

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Figurative Language

Question 9

Moment in story where protagonist enters an unfamiliar situation and/or an extraordinary world.

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Crossing the Threshold

Question 10

Language that embodies the appeal to the physical senses

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Imagery

Question 11

Plot theory that divides a plot structure into five parts.

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Dramatic Arc

Question 12

Where a person says or writes one thing and means another.

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Verbal Irony

Question 13

Things that history, myth, or legend has invested with meaning outside of a literary work

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Public Symbol

Question 14

Objects, actions, persons that are symbols because of what is presented within a literary work

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Contextual Symbol

Question 15

A narrative in which abstract qualities are personified as characters or objects.

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Allegory

Question 16

The attributions of human qualities to nonhuman things

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Personification

Question 17

Writing that examines and scrutinizes details and events in a literary work to support a thesis

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Analysis

Question 18

Part of dramatic arc where all conflicts are resolved, for better or worse.

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Denouement

Question 19

structure w/ three walls & one wall missing so audience can see into the performance area

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Box Stage

Question 20

Recurrent patterns of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry.

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Meter

Question 21

The struggle of the protagonist with forces that threaten to destroy him or her.

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Conflict

Question 22

Term used by Aristotle for the plot of a tragedy. Has a beginning, middle, & end.

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Mythos

Question 23

Walter believing that women should be nurses instead of doctors in A Raisin in the Sun

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Gender

Question 24

The attitude embodied in the language a writer chooses.

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Tone

Question 25

Leader of chorus in Greek plays who often interacts w/ characters by acting as side characters

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Choragos

Question 26

The atmosphere or general feeling of a work.

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Mood

Question 27

Presenting & developing a character through description or the actions/thoughts of characters

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Characterization

Question 28

A dramatic convention in which an actor, alone on the stage, speaks his or her thoughts aloud.

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Soliloquy

Question 29

Narrator explaining to young Margaret in "Spring & Fall" why she is crying over falling leaves

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Experience

Question 30

Comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

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Simile

Question 31

Tentative statement or theory put forward in an essay as a premise to be proved.

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Working Thesis

Question 32

The common formula in stories: Characters perform _______ to raise _______.

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actions, themes

Question 33

The statement or underlying idea of a literary work

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Theme

Question 34

In ancient Greek theater, a structure forming background before which performances were given

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Skene

Question 35

The turning point for protagonist. Point of highest tension and conflict.

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Climax

Question 36

Series of events leading to the point of highest tension and greatest interest in a story.

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Rising Action

Question 37

A metrical unit in a poem.

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Foot

Question 38

The place, time, and social context in which a work occurs.

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Setting

Question 39

Writing that recounts events and details that occurred in a literary work

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Summary

Question 40

Group in Greek plays that chanted odes between acts that often commented on the play’s events

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Chorus

Question 41

Where something is given special attributes by being equated to a second, unlike thing

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Metaphor

Question 42

Plot theory from Dan Harmon involving 8 parts that apply to potentially every single narrative

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Story Circle

Question 43

Plot theory where a hero goes on adventure, wins victory after conflict & returns home changed.

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Monomyth

Question 44

Quality created by the relationship between stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

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Rhythm

Question 45

Reference in literary work to something outside the work, usually a famous person, place, thing

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Allusion

Question 46

Recurring subject, object, image, idea, or symbol that develops and explains a theme

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Motif

Question 47

The original literary work, without any analysis or comment applied to it.

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Primary Source

Question 48

When a reader/audience knows things that a character does not and thus hears things differently

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Dramatic Irony

Question 49

A document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere.

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Secondary Source

Question 50

Part of dramatic arc where main conflict begins to resolve; aftermath of climax is felt.

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Falling Action

Communications Methodology Honors II Final Exam Review

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Communications Methodology Honors II Final Exam Review

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