Honors English 9 Final Exam

Front 1

establishes the setting, introduces some of the main characters, explains background, and introduces the characters' main conflict

Back 1

exposition (Act I)

Front 2

consists as a series of complications that occur as the main characters take action to resolve their problems

Back 2

rising action (Act II)

Front 3

the moment when a choice made by the main characters determines the direction of the action:upward to a happy ending, which would be a comedy, or downward to a tragedy

Back 3

crisis or turning point(Act III)

Front 4

prevents events that result from the action taken at the turning point. These events usually lock the characters deeper and deeper into disaster; with each event we see the characters falling straight into tragedy

Back 4

falling action (Act IV)

Front 5

occurs at the end of the play-usually, in tragedy, with the deaths of the main characters

Back 5

climax (Act V)

Front 6

the loose parts of the plot are all tied up; the play is over

Back 6

resolution (Act V)

Front 7

repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem

Back 7

alliteration

Front 8

reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture

Back 8

allusion

Front 9

a character or scene that is set up as a contrast to another so that each will stand out vividly

Back 9

foil

Front 10

the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot

Back 10

foreshadowing

Front 11

poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

Back 11

free verse

Front 12

occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or when there is a contradiction between what we expect to happen and what really does take place

Back 12

situational irony

Front 13

a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different

Back 13

verbal irony

Front 14

occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know

Back 14

dramatic irony

Front 15

figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word like, as, than, or resembles

Back 15

metaphor

Front 16

kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thng or quality is talked about as if it were human

Back 16

personification

Front 17

an unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud

Back 17

soliloquy

Front 18

play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings

Back 18

pun

Front 19

the time and place of a story or play

Back 19

setting

Front 20

figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than

Back 20

simile

Front 21

central idea of a work of literature

Back 21

theme

Front 22

attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

Back 22

tone