Lit Comp Midterm Study Guide
Exposition
Gives setting, tone, characters
Appositive
A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it Ex: My father, an Army General, had much responsibility. An army general is an appositive
Verbal Irony
A person says one thing and means another, often sarcastic. Ex: After an extremely grueling day at a job you don't like, your friend asks how your day was. You respond, "Fantastic".
Antagonist
Character against the main character
Simile
Comparing things with the word "like"
Metaphor
Comparing things without using the word "like"
Round Character
Complex, well developed, has change throughout the story
Rising action
Conflict is introduced
Dialogue
Conversation between characters
What are the 5 elements of a story?
Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, and Resolution
Foreshadowing
Hints of what's going to happen.
Conflict
Internal is character vs. self
Falling action
Leads to the conclusion
Logos & Ethos
Logos is a method of persuading an audience with reason, using facts and figures. Ex: You HAVE to buy this 60-inch wide screen, it's only $970.00!! Ethos tries to persuade an audience of a persons or groups credibility or character. Ex: You have to buy a 60-inch wide screen; the Atlanta Braves has this model in their homes and in their locker room.
Protagonist
Main character in a story
Resolution
Not all stories have this
Climax
Point of greatest suspense or interest in story.
Allusion
Reference to something in history
Setting
Reveals character, conflict, and theme.
Mood
The atmosphere of a story
Tone
The author's attitude
MLA Citation
The following are examples of proper parenthetical citations: Ex: "it was everything they needed". Ex: According to Williams in his book, dinner at 8:00pm "The police didn't arrive in time ".
Civil disobedience
The refusal too obey certain laws or government demands for the purpose of changing government policy through nonviolent means such as boycotting or picketing. Examples: Gandhi's Salt March in 1930; Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955; MLK's peaceful protest marches in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's- 1960's; The Cape Town Peace March of 1989 to end apartheid.
Rhyming Couplet
Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry that form a stanza. Ex: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee. (William Shakespeare).
Participle
a word formed from a verb and used as an adjective or a noun. Ex: The running dog was tired. ( run is a verb, add "ing" and it becomes an adjective describing the dog.