English III: Final Exam Review

the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.

• Flashback

• Setting

• Location

• Tone

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• round character

• villain

an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

• monologue

• soliloquy

• dialogue

• stage directions

The atmosphere or overarching feeling in a piece of writing created by the author is called the ____________.

• setting

• theme

• mood

• allusion

The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence is the _______________.

• Setting

• Mood

• Allegory

• Plot

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

Example: "the pigs were a squeal"

• Simile

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Personification

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. ...

A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

Black bug bit a big black bear. ...

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

What form of figurative language is being employed above?

• similie

• alliteration

• metaphor

• allusion

Select ALL of the coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) out of the options below.

• For

• And

• Nor

• But

• Your

True or False: A comma always goes before a coordinating conjunction that connects two complete thoughts.

• True

• False