English Midterm Exam
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- retrieved
- get back
- setting
- where the story takes place
- staff
- pole
- dynamic character
- a character that changes learns or grows over the course of the story
- allusion
- when the author alludes to the work of another person in their own work
- deterioration
- worsening; decline
- host
- army
- instinctively
- automatic
- stirred
- woken up
- similie
- the comparison of two unlike things using like or as
- chagrin
- embarrassment
- populated
- live in
- tone
- the author or narrator's view on certain ideas, events, topics, or characters in the book
- complications
- new events in the plot that make it harder for the main conflict to be resolved
- impulse
- urge
- foreshadowing
- the use if clues ir hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot
- invariably
- not changing
- exposition
- the basic situation at the beginning of the story
- steeped
- filled with
- detect
- discover; notice
- regression
- return to an earlier or less advanced condition
- metaphor
- the comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
- cavorting
- leaping about
- external conflict
- a struggle between two opposing forces outside of a character's mind
- tremulous
- trembling
- conflict
- a struggle between two opposing forces
- hypothesis
- theory to be proven
- dispel
- scatter; drrive away
- fugitives
- people fleeing from danger
- direct characterization
- when the author or narrator dierectly tells the readers of a character's traits or qualities
- drone
- continuous buzzing sound
- paranoia
- menatal disorder that causes people to feel unreasonable distrust and suspicon
- personification
- giving human qualities or traits to inhiman things
- circuit
- regular route of a person doing a certain job
- resolution
- 1. the main conflict is resolved 2. the outcome of the story becomes clear
- point of view
- the way which the story is told
- internal conflict
- a struggle between two opposing forces within a character's mind
- apparent
- visible
- verified
- confirmed
- static character
- a character that does not change learn or grow over the course of the story
- incentive
- reason to do something; motivation
- tread
- step
- alleviate
- relieve
- eloquence
- ability to write or speak gracefully and convincingly
- indirect characterization
- when the autor or narrator shows the reader rather than telling the reader of a character's traits or qualities
- theme
- the moral of the story or a recurring idea in the story
- misled
- fool; lead to believe something that is incorrect
- oblivious
- unaware
- emerged
- come out
- incomprehensible
- impossible to understand
- tangible
- seen and felt
- sullen
- grumpy; resentful
- sublime
- majestic; grand
- exaltation
- great joy
- refute
- prove wrong using evidence
- obscure
- hide
- rent
- tear
- contention
- conflict
- introspective
- looking inward
- climax
- 1. the point of highest emotional intensity 2. Comes directly before the resolution