Final Exam Review

The most important point the author tries to make

• Objective Summary

• Central idea

• Conflict

• Indirect characterization

A question asked solely to pose an idea for consideration (not to be answered)

• Rhetorical Question

• Soliloguy

• Personification

• Verbal Irony

The pattern of rhyme in a poem

• alliteration

• setting

• denotation

• rhyme scheme

The opposition between characters or forces in a literary work that spurs or motivates the action of a plot.

• conflict

• Archetype

• couplets

• dialect

Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things.

• dramatic irony

• objective summary

• situational irony

• figurative language

A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with like or as).

• stanza

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

words that have opposite meanings

• setting

• antonyms

• couplets

• synonyms

The overall emotion created by a work of literature

• irony

• mood

• tone

• logos

Rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination

• poetry

• idiom

• simile

• oxymoron

The author's reason for writing or speaking to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to praise, to celebrate, to warn.

• Irony

• imagery

• anecdote

• purpose