ENG I Exam Review

What is Odysseus's flaw?

reference to a literary or historical person, place, event, or composition

meaning that is directly stated

unrhymed iambic pentameter

VOCAB: in a thorough manner

an adjective clause usually starts with

a logical fallacy that assumes there can only be two options

VOCAB: belittling or downplaying something

a logical fallacy that is a distraction from the main issue

VOCAB: a pilgrim; makes a pilgrimage to a holy place

Who tries to stop the fight in Act 3 scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet?

VOCAB: form or outward appearance

renames a person or thing with a descriptive phrase

Choose the sentence in which a participle phrase is italicized

a speech by a character alone on stage in which they reveal their inner thoughts to the audience

a poetic device that places contradictory terms next to each other

poetry with no set rhyme or meter

a semicolon can be used to connect two

VOCAB: with caution or without confidence

a plot that does not unfold in chronological order

a logical fallacy that assumes there is a cause/effect relationship between two things when this is not necessarily true

A drama characterized by no happy ending, many deaths, and the characters meeting their fate through misfortune or flaw

a logical fallacy that takes one piece of information and incorrectly assumes it is true for all of that type

Figurative language that makes a comparison between two unsimilar things

phrase that begins with a participle, acts as an adjective

Describe the shift in "Having it Both Ways"

VOCAB: a loud noise

What type of meter did Shakespeare write in?

the repetition of a consonant sound

a shift of ideas in a sonnet

when the audience knows something the characters do not

a sonnet made of three quatrains and one couplet

an argument or exploration of one topic; may include the author's thoughts about the topic

All are true about a theme except...

In grammar, the unit of language that contains both a subject and a verb

From whose perspective is the short story "The Leap" told?

VOCAB: "if" in Shakespeare

framing, special effects, camera shots, speaker’s facial expressions/movements/gestures ARE ALL

a person's account of one event or one topic; includes the person's experience, thoughts, and feelings

regular, repeated pattern of rhythm in a poem

a logical fallacy that restates the argument as a reason to support the argument

a poem with fourteen lines (Shakespearean or Petrarchan)

VOCAB: tempting, alluring

a logical fallacy in which one person's argument is misinterpreted or misrepresented by another person

the same sound at the beginning of each word

VOCAB: why

VOCAB: flexible or easily adaptable

a logical fallacy in which someone attacks their opponent rather than attacking their opponent's argument

the repetition of the same vowel sound (not necessarily the same letter but the sound the letter(s) make(s))

VOCAB: made extremely thin or weak

VOCAB: nothing