Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Literary Terms
Literary Term Review:
metaphor, simile, imagery, personification, allusion, symbolism, foreshadowing, verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony, ethos, pathos, logos, static characters, dynamic characters, foil characters, protagonist, antagonist, types of conflict, point of view (Three Types), setting, unreliable narrator, alliteration, mood, tone, diction, theme
Final Exam
FINAL EXAM- Monday, June 15th, 8:00 AM in the Gym--- Be there at 7:45. We will begin at 8:00.
Final Exam
- Vocabulary: All words from this year are fair game--- Could be writing your own sentences, inserting the correct word into a sentence, etc.
- Reading comprehension passages with questions
- Be able to identify literary devices, why authors make particular choices and common themes
- Argument
- Read two articles
- Develop a claim, counterclaim and refute it
- Text analysis
- Read a speech
- Identify a central idea in the text
- Analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea.
- Examples include: characterization, conflict, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, language use, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc.
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