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# pre ap english
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Conflict meaning ?
A scene from a movie or novel
A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy end
A struggle or clash between opposing forces
A perfect example of something
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simile is
one fish two fish red blue fish
a comparison between two words using like or as
we are like two peas
jimmy is to sam as sam is to jimmy
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Point of view is ?
first , four and third person
first person
none
the first person second person third person
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Soliloquy meaning ?
an act of speaking ones thoughts aloud
a skit
a thing belonging or appropriate to a period
a play that includes a character
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Archetype is ?
A comparison to one thing to another
A character who differs
A perfect example of something
An exaggerated statement
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Polite indirect expressions that replace word and harsh impolite .
nemesis
oxymoron
euphemism
simile
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Non Fiction meaning ?
giving human qualities to animals or objects
writing or cinema that is about fact and events
something invented by imagianation
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Anachronism example ?
a skit on romeo and juliet
hitler and the nazis
the sword in modern warfare
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Hyperbole example ?
I have a ton of homework
learn to read , here !
big black bug with the big black bear
its raining cats and dogs
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Repetition of identical consonant sounds with two or more close words.
row row row your boat
hyperbole
an old haunted castle 200 years old
consonance
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Bildungsroman
direct expression
Novel of education
Coming of age story
use of humor
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Anastrophe meaning ?
order of the noun and adjective in the sentence is exchanged
direct meaning or set of meaning of a word or expression
A struggle or clan between opposing forces
A perfect example of something
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The main idea or underlying meaning of a story.
irony
theme
simile
metaphor
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Imagery is ?
roses are red
use of words that create visual image in our minds
not just visual
touch ,taste ,smell ,hear , visual
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Pun example ?
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds
"The path to the dark side , fear is"
An orange is the fruit and the color
Julius Ceasar
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Fiction is ?
something invented by the imagination
a novel based on made up characters
a novel based on reality
a novel based on facts
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Words starting with same sound repetition in a line.
hyperbole
alliteration
nemesis
symbol
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Anagram is ?
Rearranged word or pharse that forms a new word or phares
Not a new word formed
A formation of a ld word created in a new way
A new word formed by love
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Example of Onomatopoeia ?
"eee-yow" that hurt .
"boom" it smells
"hey"sam
''goodbye" sam
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Drama is ?
a criticism of life ,on stage , with action, characters
a character that is in play
on stage crying performance
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Repetition of a vowel sound located in middle of each word.
nemesis
oxymoron
assonance
irony
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A Flashback is ?
first person
scene in novel etc , set in earlier time than in main story
A positive statement expressed
A comparison to something unalike
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Analogy example ?
feet is to toe as hands are to finger
socks is to feet as gloves is to hands
socks are to feet as gloves are to hands
hats are hands as heads are toes
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An example of setting would be ?
An old haunted castle 200 years ago
she saw a goat run!!!!
time place duration
apple stood for sin
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An example of litotes ?
a postive statement is expressed through negative actions
i was standing in an ablaze of fire
it's no big deal ,my dad just died
the opposite of old
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The meaning of motif ?
a distinct feature dominate through out the story
time place duration
a literary device that contains several layers of meaning
a rhymed pair of lines
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Allusion example ?
lord voldemort harry potter
row row row your boat
i was angry with foe cause i didnt grow
the great gatsby
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Foil example ?
Harry Potter and Lord Varmont
Romeo and Tybalt
Scooby doo and Daphnae
Rosaline and Juliet
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The attitude of writer takes toward a subject ?
consonance
imagery
lonely, jealous ,hopeful, loving ,wise
tone
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She is a walking dictionary is an example of ?
An metaphor
western Italy
An analogy
An simile
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Oxymoron means ?
a pun is a joke
sweet sorrow
a vowel sound located in the middle of each word
words to opposite to each that can not be put together
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Statire is ?
the use of humor , irony , exaggeration or ridicule
A thing that that is compared to something
A word that makes the sound it represents
the attitude of subject
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Tragedy is ?
the use of humor , irony , exaggeration , or ridicule
A play dealing with tragic events and having a unhappy end
An apparition or double of a living person
coming of age story
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Couplet means ?
comparison using like or as
two lines of a verse with a rhyme scheme of EE
exaggeration of word
sea sell sea shells down by the sea shore
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Irony is ?
when something happen no one want to happen
the cow jumped over the moon
indirect or passing reference
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Denotation is ?
a word that makes the sound it represents
the attitude of the writer
explict meaning or set of meaning of a word or expression
the main idea or underlying meaning of story .
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Doppelganger means ?
set of meaning of a word
A apparition or double of a living person
An example of something
main story scene
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Giving human qualitities to animals or objects .
metaphor
tone
personification
assonanace
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Good character are rewarded , bad characters punished .
allusion
euphemism
Nemesis
analogy
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A literacy device that contains several layers of meaning ?
theme
symbol
motif
symbo'l
