Language Arts Midterm Review

The reasons for the character’s behavior

Repetition of sounds at the end of words.

How words are arranged on the page in a poem

Growing tension and excitement of a story felt by the reader.

Instructions for how the drama is to be performed in front of an audience, often in parenthesis

A pair of lines that rhyme in a poem

The time and place of the action in a story.

Obvious exaggeration. A figure of speech not intended to be taken literally 

The element of plot where the story begins to draw to a close

A speech given by a character alone on stage, for the benefit of the audience.

Words with similar meanings.

Type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects.

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of a poem.

Traditional story that attempts to explain human nature, creation, or nature and has a moral.

A group of lines in a poem

Plot element that introduces characters and setting, presents the conflict

A word part that came to English from an older language

The feelings of the reader or listeners.

A pattern of end rhyme designated by letters of the alphabet.

Gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. (She sells seashells by the seashore)

Central or main idea of a piece of writing.  Usually a message about life or human nature.

Qualities shown by the character.  May be inferred or directly stated by the author.

Word that describes or modifies a verb or action.

A form of literature meant to be performed by actors in front of an audience

The mental or emotional struggle that occurs within a character.

The point in the plot that shows the final outcome of the conflict

Who the author is directing the writing towards.

Person, place, or object that stands for something beyond and greater than itself.

A category or class of literature

The events that make up a story

Word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Word part that appears at the beginning of a word or root.

The element of plot that presents complications that intensify

Comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

The main unit of a poem.

Story’s greatest moment of intensity, turning point where conflict is resolved

Statement of belief or feeling

The most important idea about a topic a writer conveys

The attitude of the writer, speaker, or poet.

Form of literature meant to be performed by actors.  

a logical guess based on evidence presented in a text.

A brief retelling of the main points of a story or text

A story that can be online, in print, or broadcast on television

The struggle between opposing forces

Ideas and feelings associated with a word.

Struggle between a literary character and an outside force such as nature or another character

Words that echo a sound from nature. (e.g., ring, meow, tinkle, buzz).