Academic Vocabulary/Literary Terminology - Review of Semester One Words

Question 1

sequence of events; story line; series of incidents; what happens in a story/narrative

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plot

Question 2

word choice; the level of words used by an author; it can be formal/informal/slang, high/low

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diction

Question 3

a reference made to a well-known person, event, place from history, music, art or literary work

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allusion

Question 4

the author's message to readers; life lesson; inferred after reading a work of literature

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theme

Question 5

a rhetorical appeal to reason or logic

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logos

Question 6

narrator is outside the story but discloses one particular character's thoughts

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third person limited point of view

Question 7

a position taken by someone on a topic; this is the point to be made in an argument

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claim

Question 8

a writer's or speaker's distinctive use of language to express ideas as well as her/his persona

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voice

Question 9

where/when a story takes place; might provide social, historical, economic, political context

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setting

Question 10

This is an animate person/animal/object in a story that faces an internal or external conflict.

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character

Question 11

an interruption or transition to a time before the current events in a narrative

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flashback

Question 12

events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution

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falling action

Question 13

when a reader or audience knows more about the circumstances or future events than a character

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dramatic irony

Question 14

the precise meaning of a word; literal; found in a dictionary

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denotation

Question 15

the end of a story when the conflict is finally resolved; usually characters learn lessons

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resolution

Question 16

the arrangement of words; how an author structures a sentence; organization of a sentence

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syntax

Question 17

a rhetorical appeal that focuses on the character or qualifications of the speaker

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ethos

Question 18

Did you academically dominate your classmates in this academic vocabulary/literary term review?

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Yes

Question 19

a written copy or record of a conversation that takes place between two or more people

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transcript

Question 20

narrator is outside the story and knows all characters' thoughts & information they don't know

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third person omniscient point of view

Question 21

events that give the reader background information needed to understand a story

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exposition

Question 22

the person telling the story

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narrator

Question 23

to plan the actions one will take to complete a task

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strategize

Question 24

a rhetorical appeal to the reader's or listener's senses or emotions

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pathos

Question 25

the movement of a plot toward a climax; the plot grows complicated as potential conflicts arise

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rising action

Question 26

a story about a series of events that includes character development, plot structure, and theme

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narrative

Question 27

a form of irony that occurs when a speaker or narrator says one thing and means the opposite

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verbal irony

Question 28

People who fail to plan should plan to fail. If you can learn to read, you can read to learn.

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paradox

Question 29

the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of two + clauses or lines

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anaphora

Question 30

these are facts, statistics, graphs, data, testimonials, and/or examples used to prove a claim

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evidence

Question 31

a writer's (or speaker's) attitude toward a subject, character, or audience

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tone

Question 32

a conclusion about ideas or information not directly stated

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all of the options

Question 33

This is what you had to do to genuinely capture a person's voice in the interview narrative.

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all of the options

Question 34

a highly-structured form of academic writing; written in prose for analysis or explanation

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essay

Question 35

when the narrator uses words like "you", "your", "yours"; this narrative style draws readers in

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second person point of view

Question 36

the associations and emotional overtones attached to a word beyond its literal definition

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connotation

Question 37

ordinary written or spoken language, using sentences and paragraphs, w/o meter or song

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prose

Question 38

the atmosphere or general feeling in a literary work

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mood

Question 39

a problem that arises in the story; it drives the plot forward; all stories must have one

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conflict

Question 40

language written in lines and stanzas

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poetry

Question 41

the arrangement of two or more things for the purpose of comparison

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juxtaposition

Question 42

All stories have these literary elements.

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all of the options

Question 43

the reversal of a character or reader's expectations

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situational irony

Question 44

tying together loose ends of plot; resolution; middle French origin; literally means "untying"

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denouement

Question 45

a position taken by someone with an opposing viewpoint

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counterclaim

Question 46

when the narrator uses "I", "me", "my", "our", "us", "we"; personal, subjective, biased

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first person point of view

Question 47

when the narrator uses words "she", "he", "they", "Amari", "Elijah"; objective and impersonal

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third person point of view

Question 48

The tone is the author's attitude and the reader's _______ is affected by the author's tone.

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mood

Question 49

An author's word choice, point of view, and tone influence her/his ___________.

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all of the options

Question 50

the point at which the action reaches its peak; the point of greatest interest or suspense

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climax

Academic Vocabulary/Literary Terminology - Review of Semester One Words

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Academic Vocabulary/Literary Terminology - Review of Semester One Words

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