English 1 Post-Test Study Guide

Match the following

• Motivation

• The reason that explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions.

• Struggle between two opposing forces

• A story intended to be read on a symbolic level

• Tone

• The author's attitude toward the reader and subject

• Allegory

• How do you determine the POV in a story?

• Pronouns used in narration (not in dialogue)

• External conflict

Drag the elements of the plot into the correct order

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Match the following

• Memoir

• A book written in the first-person POV about a small snapshot in their life

• Autobiography

• A book written in third-person POV about a person's life

• Biography

• A book written in first-person POV about a person's life

A word's connotation is based on

• facts

• feelings

• reserach

• its root word

Match the following

• Blank Verse

• A poem written in unrhymed meter

• Ballad Poem

• A poem that tells a story using repetition and rhyme

• Catalog Poem

• A poem that makes lists

Match the following

• Paradox

• Choice or use of words

• Diction

• Words that contradict one another

• Ambiguity

• Open to more than one interpretation; no clear ending

• Extended metaphor

• A comparison that is developed over several lines of a poem