Final Exam Review- 11th Grade English

An appeal to ethics and credibility

A statement of support for a person or product from a celebrity or expert

The turning point of the story; the moment when the suspense reaches its peak

Verbal, situational, and dramatic

Literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meaning

The person/group of people to whom the piece is directed

Story teller who knows the thoughts and feelings of one of the characters

The way the speaker feels about the subject

Large- time, date, place, context; immediate- trigger of the speech or writing

Relating to the establishment of dates and time sequences

A reference to something outside of the work itself

A person who tells a story: in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story

Hints or clues as to what is going to happen later on in the story

A figure of speech that intentionally makes a situation seem less important than it really is

Making something larger (literally or figuratively) in order to see its faults

Words that sound like their meanings

A device in which an earlier event is inserted into the chronological order of a narrative

Author's word choice

A comparison of two things that uses like or as

Sentence structure

Undermining the original argument

The conflict that begins the action of the story and causes the protagonist to act

A literary device that highlights and explains the details about a character

Illustration containing a political, social, or economic message

Why the author wrote the piece

An appeal to logic

All-knowing story teller; knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters

A question not meant to be answered by the audience

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based

Expressing ideas in a similar way to show that they are of the same level of importance

A related series of incidents in a plot that build toward the point of greatest interest

An appeal to emotion

A comparison of two things without using like or as:

A meaning that is implied by a word; cultural or emotional associations

Writing that appeals to one or more of the five senses

Representation of an idea through an object, person, place, etc.

Storyteller is part of the story (I, we, us, me)

The ending of the story when all plot points are resolved for the main character