English II Fundamentals

(Fiction) What do we call a work's big idea, message, or moral?

• Theme

• Motif

• Symbolism

• Main Idea

(Fiction) The most exciting point in a story is called...

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Climax

• Resolution

(Fiction) If a writer develops a character by explicitly telling us about them, they are using...

• Deliberate Characterization

• Careful Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization

(Fiction) The difference between protagonist and antagonist is...

• A protagonist is the main character and an antagonist is a side character

• A protagonist is the main character and the antagonist is the character working against the main character

• A protagonist is a deep character and antagonist is a shallow character

• A protagonist works against the main character and the antagonist is the main character

(Fiction) Our fiction unit this year was about far future societies after world ending events which is a genre called:

• Post-Apocalyptic/Dystopian Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Romantic Fiction

• Literary Fiction

(Poetry) What is the term for a reference to another literary work or event?

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Callback

(Poetry) The difference between similes and metaphors is...

• Similes are literal and metaphors are figurative

• Similes are direct comparisons and metaphors use like or as

• Similes use like or as and metaphors are direct comparisons

• They are different words for the same thing; no difference

(Poetry) Instead of paragraphs, poems are divided into...

• Sections

• Line Groups

• Stanzas

• Word Crowds

(Poetry) The difference between tone and mood is...

• Tone is about how we feel as readers and mood is about the author's attitude

• Tone is about the author's attitude and mood is about how we feel as readers

• There is no meaningful difference between the two.

• Tone is a formal analysis and mood is more about feeling

(Poetry) The difference between consonance and assonance is...

• Consonance is about vowel sounds and assonance is about consonant sounds

• Consonance is about sounds at the ends of words and assonance is sounds at the beginning of words

• Consonance is about consonant sounds and assonance is about vowel sounds

• Consonance is a word's literal definition and assonance is a word's emotional associations