American Lit EOC Milestone Literary Terms Review

Question 1

Rules and accepted practices involving a play

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dramatic conventions

Question 2

the choices an author makes to reveal a character's personality

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characterization

Question 3

Language that appeals to the senses

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imagery

Question 4

The author states outright what a character is like

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Direct Characterization

Question 5

story within a story

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frame story

Question 6

"Molten golden notes" is an example of

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assonance

Question 7

Poem that tells a story

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narrative

Question 8

Author's implied attitude toward his subject

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tone

Question 9

Includes narrative, lyric, and free-verse as well as sonnets, odes, and epics

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poetry

Question 10

deeper meaning of a text

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theme

Question 11

Which of these is NOT a way an author in a story might reveal a character?

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Musical Score

Question 12

Narrator is not a character; focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

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third person limited

Question 13

What does "in medias res" mean?

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in the midst of things

Question 14

Serious play that ends in disaster

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tragedy

Question 15

Overall feeling or emotion the author establishes

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mood

Question 16

Specific type of writing or literature

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genre

Question 17

all the ideas, images, emotions, and connections a word brings to mind

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connotation

Question 18

Which of these is an internal conflict?

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man vs self

Question 19

rhyme in which words have similar but not identical sounds

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slant rhyme

Question 20

A character's unspoken thoughts

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Interior Monologue

Question 21

Plays and movies consisting of one or more acts

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Drama

Question 22

rhyme occuring at the ends of lines

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end rhyme

Question 23

quirky sayings and expressions that cannot be translated literally

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idiom

Question 24

Form of speech intended to convey the opposite of the actual meaning of the words

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irony

Question 25

Includes adventure stories, mysteries, myth, allegories, and graphic novels

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Fiction

Question 26

the process of looking closely at the small parts to see how they work together

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analysis

Question 27

When the audience knows something the characters do not know

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dramatic irony

Question 28

"Chitter chatter" is an example of

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consonance

Question 29

to draw a conclusion based on evidence from a text

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infer

Question 30

Which is NOT used to convey tone?

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rhyme

Question 31

form of writing that ridicules people, practices, or institutions to expose their failings

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satire

Question 32

mention a specific portion of a text to support analysis; may be direct quotation or paraphrase

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cite

Question 33

resolution of a story; tying up of the loosing ends

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denouement

Question 34

dictionary definition of a word

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denotation

Question 35

character that is not complex and has only one defining characteristic

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flat

Question 36

Poetry that follows no specific guidelines about rhyme, meter, or length

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free verse

Question 37

A short poem expressing the thoughts or feelings of a single speaker

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lyric

Question 38

Events are arranged in the order in which they happened

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chronological

Question 39

Which of the following is NOT true of sonnets?

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about love

Question 40

character who changes throughout the course of a story

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dynamic

Question 41

extended metaphor that extends throughout a story

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allegory

Question 42

narrative poem intended to be sung

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ballad

Question 43

pattern of rhyming in poems

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rhyme scheme

Question 44

A novel written in the form of letters or diaries

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epistolary

Question 45

Narrator is not a character in the story; sees into all the characters' minds

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third person omniscient

Question 46

Conversation between characters

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dialogue

Question 47

Historical period or political atmosphere of a story is part of its

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setting

Question 48

incidents in a plot that help or hinder the protagonist in finding a solution

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complications

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Perspective from which a story is told

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point of view

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author's word choice

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diction

American Lit EOC Milestone Literary Terms Review

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American Lit EOC Milestone Literary Terms Review

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