Language Arts Pat Study

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Imagery

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The use of vivid language and figurative devices to evoke the senses.
Example: The black cat crossed the road stealthily, like a panther chasing it's prey

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Metaphor

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A comparison without using like or as
Example: He was a giant

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Central Metaphor

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A comparison that relates to the theme of a piece of literature

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Simile

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A comparison that uses like or as
Example: She's sharp like a tack

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Hyperbole/ Exaggeration

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A description of something in an excessive manner
Example: I am so hungry I could eat a horse

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(Person)ification

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Gives human qualities to an inanimate object or non human being
Example: The trees danced in the wind

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Alliteration

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Example: She sells sea shells on the sea shore

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Foreshadowing

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Be a warning or indication of a future event
Example: the witches in the opening scene of Macbeth foreshadow the evil events that follow

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Idiom

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An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its elements
Example: kick the bucket

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Analogy

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A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be base
Example: her hair glistened in the rain like a nose after a sneeze

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Allusion

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The act or practice of making a casual or indirect reference to something; the act of alluding
Example: “I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.”

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Mood

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The mood refers to the general feeling the reader gets while reading the story. It is the theme and vibes it gives off, examples are happy, sad, confused etc... the feelings the author creates in
Example: Melancholy: This mood can be seem in the poem, "The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

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Tone

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The tone of a literary work is the perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development. Tone can portray a variety of emotions ranging from solemn, grave, and critical to witty, wry and humorous. Tone helps the reader ascertain the writer’s feelings towards a particular topic and this in turn influences the reader’s understanding of the story.
Example: casual; The way I look at it, someone needs to start doing something about disease. What’s the big deal? People are dying.

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Character

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The aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
Example: Katniss, Peeta, Keatyn Douglas

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Plot

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Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
Example: The plot of the story was to overthrow the government

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Dialogue

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The conversation between characters in a novel, drama, etc.

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Narration

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Something narrated; an account, story, or narrative.

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Atmosphere

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'Atmosphere' in literature is the tone, feeling or overall emotion of a piece of writing.
Example: "Harry Potter" in which the atmosphere is suspenseful.

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Context

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The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting

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Narrator

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Someone who is narrating

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Speaker

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The character or person whom is speaking or giving their statement

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Motive

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The goal or object of a person's actions:

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Conflict

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There are many types of conflict and it is was what most books/stories centre around

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Repetition

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Repetition in literature is the repeating of a phrase, word or stanza form. It is a strong literary device used for emphasizing something important. It can also help tie different ideas together.

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect.
Example: Cuckoo, Meow, Bang, Honk

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Suspense

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It is an element of uncertainty, anxiety, excitement producing a situation which breathes something untoward or ominous to happen

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Theme

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The underlying meaning or a common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work

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Rhyming Couplets

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A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.

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Antagonist

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The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work

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Protagonist

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The Hero of a piece of literary work

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What is the difference between MOOD and TONE?

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Tone is the attitude a writer has towards the subject they're writing about. It is evident in they're diction, style, and opinion if they express one. Mood is the atmosphere created by the setting, and actions of people and characters in it.

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Identify all 3 types of IRONY

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Verbal irony
-Verbal irony is the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says.
Situation irony
-It involves a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. Situation irony occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant to happen, happens.
Dramatic irony
- It occurs when the audience is aware of something that the characters in the story are not aware of.

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Describe 3 types of NARRATION
A) First Person
B) Second Person
C) Omniscient

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A) First Person
-First person is someone who is a character in the story writing it from his/her point of view.
B) Second Person
-Second person is usually used with recipes and directions, and includes the pronoun "you,"
C) Omniscient
-The narrator knows what one or more characters are thinking and feeling too

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Describe the different conflict that can occur in a story
A) Man Vs. Self
B) Man Vs. Man
C) Man Vs. Nature
D) Man Vs. Society

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A) Man vs. Self
-This is where the character is at odds with themselves and fighting something personal and internal
B) Man vs. Man
-It's a character against another character, people vs people, even if those people are non-human.
C) Man vs. Nature
- A character is up against nature, and that's what's keeping them from their goal. A guy is trapped in a blizzard and has to survive.
D) Man vs. Society
-This is where a character has a problem with something that is status quo in the world

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Figurative Language

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Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language.

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Introduction

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Setting, characters, main conflicts are introduced to the reader; this is the beginning of a novel or story and may be short or long, but is always flat (little action or emotion).

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Rising Action

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The round characters are developed, the conflicts are
increased and acted out in many ways, motives are introduced, things happen; generally, the major part of a novel or story.

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Climax

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The "high point" of a story in which the major conflicts erupt in some kind of a final show down

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Falling Action

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What events immediately follow the climax; a kind of "cleaning up."

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Denouncement/ Conclusion

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Where everything ends; the reader may have some sense of "closure" or may be asked to think about what might come next