Year 9 End of Year Quiz

hamartia

• a realisation

• giving human aspects to non human things

• main character

• fatal flaw

Marginalised

• excluded from mainstream society

• a turning point

• to feel pity

• to be angered by another

Hubris

• excessive pride or arrogance

• fatal flaw

• the highest point of tension

• exaggeration

Foreshadow

• using the same sound or letter in consecutive words

• hint at later events

• to go back in time in the narrative

• a release of emotions

Cliffhanger

• understating

• exaggeration

• an ending open to interpretation

• contrasting words for effect

Anagnorisis

• to feel pity or sympathy

• a moment of realisation

• using like or as to compare

• excessive pride or arrogance

juxtaposition

• hinting at later events

• shifting perspective

• contrasting ideas

• using the weather to symbolise emotion

third person omniscient narrator

• all knowing narrator, who is 'above' the story rather than involved

• told through the eyes of a single character using personal pronouns

• two narrators tell the same story from different perspectives

• narrator retells events but only follows a single character

Exposition

• exaggeration

• contrasting ideas

• story's set up

• conflict

oxymoron

• words with opposite meaning placed together for effect

• meanings are left unclear

• an object representing bigger ideas

• common phrases or sayings