Literary Terms which may come up on the Exam

Most of these terms are terms you learned in grades 8 and 9.  Some we have worked with this year.  Others you will need to look up just in case they show up on the exam.  Typically the exams have a handful or less of questions which directly ask about literary terms, or have them in the question and expect you to know how to answer the question based on knowing what the term means. 

For example, after reading a story on the exam, a question may ask you about the characterization of the protagonist...

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_A.html  - for detailed definitions of the terms below.

A

Alliteration

Allusion

Antagonist

Aside

Atmosphere

Audience

B

Ballad

Bias

Blank verse

C

Character

Chronological order

Cliché

Climax

Colloquial

Comedy

Compare

Conflict (internal, external)

Connotation

Contrast

D

Denotation

Description

Dialogue

Direct presentation

Drama

Dynamic character

E

Exposition; expository

F

Falling action

Figurative language

First person point of view

Flashback

Flat character

Foil

Foreshadowing

Free verse

G

Genre

H

Hyperbole

I

Image

Imagery

Indirect presentation

Irony

J

Jargon

L

Limited omniscient

point of view

Lyric

M

Metaphor

Mood

N

Narration

Narrative

Narrator

O

Objective point of view

Omniscient point of view

Onomatopoeia

P

Paradox

Personification

Persuasion; persuasive

Plot

Point of view

Propaganda

Protagonist

R

Refrain

Resolution

Rhyme

Rhyme scheme

Rhythm

Rising action

Round character

S

Sarcasm

Satire

Setting

Simile

Slang

Sonnet

Speaker

Stanza

Static character

Stereotyped character

Style

Suspense

Symbol; symbolism

T

Theme

Tone

Tragedy

U

Understatement

Medieval anti-semitism - the backdrop for Merchant of Venice

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/strasbourg/strasbourg.html

Participles and Provincial Exams

OK guys, we're getting down to the wire.  It is time for you to scroll down a couple of entries and click on the link to check out the sample provincial exams.  See if you can actually write one of them start to finish as a practice exam.  Go through them looking for words or literary devices in the questions that you may not know.  We will review any that may come up.

Complete the Participles sheet tonight for Homework.  We will be reviewing it tomorrw.  And hint...we will be doing a set of questions with both gerunds and participles.  Do you think you could spot a gerund (noun) from a participle (adjective) in a sentence?

A very Jewish villain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/dec/09/religion.film

It's about time we stopped making excuses for Shakespeare, says Jonathan Freedland. As a new film version of The Merchant of Venice proves, the play is indeed anti-semitic....

Gerunds and more...

Complete the Gerund Practice sheets.

Irregular Verbs 4:  Quiz on Wednesday

Irregular Verbs 5:  Quiz on Friday

Classical Roots Test #7 on Monday.

Google anti-semitism and Shakespeare re Merchant of Venice.  Was Shakespeare racist?  Or was he trying to teach tolerance to his contemporaries?

Provincial Exams available on line to practice

http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/

Epiphany! Irregular Verbs Quiz #3 Monday

Pronouns Jan 4th, 2012

p. 54, 55 on handout:  Identify whether pronouns in sentencs 10-26 are Personal, Interrogative, Demonstrative or Indefinite Pronouns. 
Irregular Verbs # 3 Quiz on Monday

Jan 4th, 2012

For those of you still away, and keeping up by checking in on the blog, we worked on grammar yesterday:  reviewing transitive and intransitive verbs, and  prepositions, prepositional phrases, objects of the preposition.  We also began looking at the Principal Parts of the Verb. 
Quiz today on Prepositions.