Common assessment review

audience knows something a character does not

• Situational irony

• Verbal irony

• Alliteration

• Dramatic irony

What is an Epic?

• A long narrative loan that tells about the adventures of a hero

• A preteen that appears across culture and is repeated

• Central idea of a work of literature

• In the middle of the action

Theme

• Restate the ideas in your own words

• Central idea of a work of literature

• “All knowing” - knows about all characters

• A vantage point from which a writer tells a story

What is a Myth?

• Feelings and associations that the world suggest

• Someone says one thing but means another

• Traditional stories roofed in a particular culture that explains something about the world

• repetition of same consonant sounds at beginning of words

Feelings & associations that the words suggest

• Connotation

• Denotation

• In Medias Res

• Epithets

Denotation

• Narrator zooms in on thoughts and feelings of 1 character

• Dictionary definition

• Feelings & associations that the world suggest

In the middle of the action

• In Medias Res

• Paraphrase

• Imagery

• Epic

Which one has the right punctuation

• Additional supplies are: a toothbrush and toothpaste, a change of clothes, a towel, a pillow, and an air mattress

• Additional supplies are a toothbrush and toothpaste, a change of clothes, a towel, a pillow, and an air mattress

Adjective or descriptive phrase used to characterize someone

• Archetype

• Situational irony

• Epithets

• Alliteration

Compare heroic /epic events to simple, understandable events

• Homeric simile

• Paraphrase

• Denotation