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ELA 8th Mid-Term Flash-Cards

Tejaswi Sriram English 8th grade English 48 cards

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  1. 1Plot StructureFrey Tag's Pyramid
    CASPAR
    Plot
    Exposition
    Setting
    Rising Action
    Climax
    Falling Action
    Resolution
  2. 2Frey Tag's PyramidA diagram used to organize the plot
  3. 3CASPARC- character
    A- Adjectives
    S- setting
    P- plot
    A- Action
    R- Resolution
  4. 4PlotThe sequence of events or actions in a Short Story, Novel, Play or Narrative
    Poem.
  5. 5ExpositionThe author lays the groundwork for the story revealing the setting, relationship between characters, and relations among characters before the conflict.
  6. 6SettingThe place where the event takes place
  7. 7Rising ActionThe events leading up to the climax
  8. 8ClimaxThe turning point in a story
  9. 9Falling ActionThe events leading to the resolution
  10. 10ResolutionThe solution to the problem/ the last event in the story
  11. 11CharacterDynamic Character
    Static Character
    Antagonist
    Protagonist
    Indirect Characterization
    Direct Characterization
  12. 12Dynamic CharacterA character that undergoes a change in actions or beliefs during the course of a story
  13. 13Static CharacterA character that does not grow or change throughout the story and ends as he/she began
  14. 14AntagonistAgainst the protagonist; can be a person, idea of force
  15. 15ProtagonistMain character; story revolves around this character
  16. 16Indirect CharacterizationThe writer reveals a character through the character’s appearance, speech,
    thoughts, feelings, or actions, and what other characters think and say about this
    character.
  17. 17Direct CharacterizationThe writer tells you directly what the character is like
  18. 18Literary TermsAllusion
    Dialogue
    Flashback
    Foreshadowing
    Imagery
    Mood
    POV
    Symbolism
    Theme
    Tone
  19. 19AllusionA reference to a LITERARY, MYTHOLOGICAL, BIBLICAL OR
    HISTORICAL person, place or thing
  20. 20DialogueThe words said by a character
  21. 21FlashbackPresent movement of the story is halted and a scene from the past is relived; readers relive the past moment in the present
  22. 22ForeshadowingThe use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet
    to occur
  23. 23ImageryThe words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions,
    feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste,
    and touch)
  24. 24MoodThe feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
  25. 25Point of View-POVThe perspective from which a story is told
  26. 26SymbolismThe usage of a symbol to represent something
  27. 27ThemeA central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work - a
    lesson about life or people
  28. 28ToneThe writer’s attitude toward his or her subject. Tone can often be described
    by a single adjective
  29. 29Figurative LanguageAlliteration
    Extended Metaphor
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    Onomatopoeia
    Personification
    Simile
  30. 30AlliterationBeginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the
    same sound
  31. 31Extended MetaphorA comparison (at some length) of two unlike things not using
    like or as
  32. 32HyperboleA deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration; may be
    used for either serious or comic effect
  33. 33MetaphorA comparison of two unlike things not using LIKE or AS
  34. 34OnomatopiaThe use of words to mimic the sounds they describe
  35. 35PersonificationWriting that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human
    characteristics
  36. 36SimilieA comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words LIKE
    or AS
  37. 37ConflictInternal: Man vs. Self
    External: Man vs. Man
    Man vs. Nature
    Man vs. Fate
  38. 38Man vs. SelfWhen a character must make a decision about a problem
    or struggle he is having with himself
  39. 39Man vs. ManWhen a character has a problem with another
    character
  40. 40Man vs. NatureWhen a character has a problem with a force of
    nature such as cold, storms, earthquakes, etc
  41. 41Man vs. FateWhen a character has a problem with something he
    can’t do anything about, such as God, luck, death, etc
  42. 42Narrator's VoiceUnderstatement
    Formal Language
    Conversational
    Journalistic
    Poetic
  43. 43UnderstatementThe opposite of hyperbole – a kind of irony that deliberately
    represents something as being much less than it really is
  44. 44Formal LanguageLanguage where the following aren't present: abbreviations, contractions, shortcuts etc.
  45. 45ConversationalA style where the words are written in the way the character would talk
  46. 46JournalisticA style where the writing is that of a professional writer or journalist
  47. 47PoeticA style of writing that gives a poetic meaning or sense to it
  48. 48The Tell-Tale-HeartSummary
    Conflict
    Theme
    Author

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Flash cards used to study terms for ELA 8 Pre-AP.
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