English Review Terms

Question 1

A brief, indirect reference to a famous/well known person, place, or thing that has historical or cultural significance

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Allusion

Question 2

Highest and most intense part of the story

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Climax

Question 3

A comparison between two things not using the words like or as. Ex: You are my sunshine

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Metaphor

Question 4

How the writer feels about a subject. The author's attitude.

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Tone

Question 5

An object that represents an abstract idea, feeling, or thought

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Symbolism

Question 6

An extreme exaggeration often used for comedic effect or emphasis. Ex: I have asked you 5,000 times to clean your room

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Hyperbole

Question 7

The feeling a reader gets from a passage

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Mood

Question 8

Where the tension and excitement in a story goes down, followed by the resolution

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Falling action

Question 9

Peter picked a peck or pickled peppers

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Alliteration

Question 10

Giving human-like qualities or actions to non-human things. Ex: the wind whispered

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Personification

Question 11

Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, allusion, idiom, onomatopoeia, etc.

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Figurative language

Question 12

Descriptive parts in a text that provide the reader with feelings from the 5 senses

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Imagery

Question 13

Part in a story where the excitement grows, leading up to the conflict

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Rising action

Question 14

To examine similarities between two things

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Compare

Question 15

Underlying idea in a story that is the overall message, what an author wants the reader to take away from the story

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Theme

Question 16

Words that are sounds. Ex: buzz, pop, boom

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Onomatopoeia

Question 17

A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events

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Allegory

Question 18

First sentence in an essay used to grab reader's attention.

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Hook

Question 19

The events that make up a story

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Plot

Question 20

A comparison between two things using the words like or as. Ex: The baby is as cute as a button

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Simile

Question 21

an educated guess based on prior knowledge or hints in a story

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Inference

Question 22

Hinting at what will happen next in a story

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Foreshadowing

Question 23

The problem in a story

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Conflict

Question 24

To examine differences between two things

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Contrast

Question 25

Where the conflict in the story is resolved

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Resolution

Question 26

An interruption in a story that takes the character back to a time that happened before the story's current setting

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Flashback

Question 27

Intro to the story: Find out about characters, settings, events

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Exposition

English Review Terms

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English Review Terms

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