Name _______________________ Period ___ English 4 Fall 2014 Final Exam Review Key

1. What are four ways an author can develop a character?

- description of appearance - Examples of a character’s speech, thoughts, actions - responses of others to the character - narrator’s direct comments about the character

2. What are the traits of an epic hero?

- noble birth

- character traits reflect the ideals of the society

- perform courageous, superhuman deeds

- perform actions that affect the fate of a nation or group Define these terms: 3. allegory: a work with 2 levels of meaning: symbolic and literal

4. allusion: indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work

5. annotation/sidenote: explanatory note about the text

6. antagonist: principal character in opposition to the hero or protagonist; can be a force of nature 7. aside: short speech directed to the audience or another character not heard by others onstage 8. climax: turning point in the plot

9. conflict: struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions that is the basis of the story’s

plot; can be external or internal.

10. dialogue: conversation between two characters

11. dramatic irony: when the reader or viewer knows something the character does not

12. epic simile: long comparison that continues for many lines

13. external conflict: conflict between 2 characters or a character and nature or society

14. foil: a character whose traits are contrasted with those of another

15. foreshadowing: a writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later

16. frame story: a story is told within another story

17. imagery: words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences

18. internal conflict: conflict between opposing forces within a character

19. irony: a contrast between expectation and reality

20. metaphor: comparison between two things that have something in common

21. paraphrase: put text in your own words

22. personification: figure of speech in which human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas

23. plot: sequence of actions or events in a literary work

24. protagonist: main character involved in the central conflict of a story

25. rising action: part of the plot where the conflict becomes more intense as the characters try to resolve the problem

26. simile: comparison of two things that have something in common using like or as

27. soliloquy: speech in which a character speaks his thoughts aloud, usually while alone on stage 28. summary: brief restatement of the main ideas of a piece of writing 29. tragic flaw: a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of the tragedy

30. unusual word order: statements in which the subject and verb may be switched