UNIT ONE TEST REVIEW

What You Need to Know

Fiction

Plot

The series of events in a story

Event #1

Event #2Event #3

And so on…

Exposition(Introduction)

The beginning of the story where the setting,

background, and characters are introduced.

Exposition

Rising Action

The events that move the story forward and create

some kind of conflict.Ris

ing

Act

ion

Conflict

Struggles or problems between opposing forces in the story

ClimaxThe turning point in the story where the conflict is

at its peak.Climax

Falling Action

The events that start to wrap up the story.

Falling Action

Resolution

The conflict is completely wrapped up and the story

ends.

Resolution

PLOT DIAGRAM

Ris

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Act

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lling A

ction

Resolution

Climax

Exposition

Conflict

Summarization

Retelling the main points, events, or ideas, while leaving out the less important details

Characterization

Characterization is the way an author develops the personality of a character.

Indirect characterizationshows things that reveal the

personality of a character.

showing the character's appearance displaying the character's actionsrevealing the character's thoughts letting the character speakgetting the reactions of others

Example: If a mother calmly tells her son it's time for bed and he responds by saying, 'No, I don't have to do what you say! I'm staying up all night!'

What can we infer?

Example: A character smiles shakily and says, “That’s all right,” while turning away to hide a tear.

What can we infer?

Readers sometimes must infer to gather indirect details about a character

Non-Fiction Memoir

Autobiography(Auto=self, bio=life, graph=written)

Memoir

•True=Non-Fiction•First-Person point-of-view

•Focuses on a specific event or time period in the author’s life, and includes the author’s feelings about those events •Memories that are important to the author’s life, or unusual

Reading a memoir is a lot like reading someone’s diary—filled not just with what happened, but also describing how the person felt about what happened.

Types of Figurative Language

Extended Metaphor

An extended metaphor is a comparison that is continued in a piece of literature for more than a single reference. It might be contained in a few sentences, a paragraph, stanza, or an entire literary piece.  An author uses an extended metaphor to build a larger comparison between two things.

“Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down.”(Dean Koontz, Seize the Night. Bantam, 1999)

Example

Grammar

Imperative Mood

A Command or an Order—the subject (you) is NOT includedA request (the same but with a polite “please”)

Please, come in. Turn that computer off, please.

Come in.Turn that computer off now!

Active Voice

The one doing the action is also the subject of the sentence

Fixing Participles

The participle/modifier is right next to the thing (noun) that it is describing

Words with multiple meaningsLatin roots and prefixes

Vocabulary

Context Clues!