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2023 English 9 Final Exam - Literary Terms AND Vocab
GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)
- Language Level Analysis
Answer: A level of reading which examines the meaning of specific words
and the connotation of a word or words.
- Literary Level Analysis
Answer: A level of reading which examines literary and poetic devices.
What is the meaning of a simile (or metaphor, or image)? What characters, events, or objects can be seen as symbols? etc...
- Extension Level Analysis
Answer: This level of reading asks the reader to make connections outside
of the text and outside of her knowledge of literary devices. Readers may make connections to history, culture, etc.
- Image
Answer: Descriptive language that evokes one or all of the five senses
(seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling).
- Diction
Answer: Word choice; the purposeful use of certain words over others in
writing.
- Denotation
Answer: The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
- Connotation
Answer: The associations and emotional overtones that have become
attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.
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- Mood
Answer: The feeling or emotion created in a reader by a literary work.
- Tone
Answer: The attitude of the author toward the subject. This term is often
confused with "mood", however, this term refers to the author's intellectual attitude towards the subject matter and mood refers to the emotion created in a reader
- Characterization
Answer: When the author develops a character's personality through their
speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks.
- Static Character
Answer: A character who doesn't undergo any significant change in
character, personality or perspective over the course of a story.
- Dynamic Character
Answer: A character that undergoes a major change or transition in one or
more of these ways.
- Foil Character
Answer: A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the
qualities of another character.
- Symbol
Answer: When an object stands for a larger idea.
- Foreshadowing
Answer: A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is
to come later in the story.
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