10th Lit Study Guide for Midterm/Final
Fall 2011/Ms. Roberts
Short Story Unit: Define the following terms:
1. 1st person POV
2. 3rd person
Omniscient Limited
POV
3.
3rd Person Omniscient
Objective POV
4. 3rd Person
Omniscient POV
5. Allegory
6. Antagonist
7. Climax
8. Denouement
(Resolution)
9. Dynamic/Round
Character
10. Exposition
11. External Conflict
12. Falling Action
13. Innocent Eye POV
14. Internal Conflict
15. Plot
16. Point of View
17. Protagonist
18. Rising Action
19. Setting
20. Static /Flat
Character
21. Stream of
Consciousness POV
22. Symbol
23. Theme
Be able to apply these terms to the short stories we have read AND to an excerpt from a story that you have not read.
SO…..you must know/be able to apply those terms to the following:
“Sound of Thunder”
“Masque of the
Red Death”
“Contents of a
Dead Man’s
Pocket”
“The Monkey’s
Paw”
Plot Summarywhat
happened?
-Be able to
identify the
Exposition,
Rising Action,
Climax, Falling
Action, and
Resolution
(Denouement )
Setting (where
and when?)
Main Characters
(Protagonist
and
Antagonist)
Theme
Conflicts
A. Internal
B.
External
Use of
important
literary
elements-ie.:
foreshadowing,
allegory,
suspense,
symbolism, etc.
Drama Terms: Using the Word Bank, write the correct term beside the definition:
“A Good Man is
Hard to Find”
Antagonist
Theme
Thespian
Resolution
Soliloquy
Definition:
Exposition
Dramatic Irony
Flat character
Situational Irony
Tragedy
Plot
Tragic Hero
Suspense
Protagonist
Atmosphere
Chorus
Static Character
Comedy
Dynamic character
Setting
1. A series of related events; tells what happened in the play/story
2. The main character in the play/story
3. Anxiety we feel over what will happen in the play/story
4. Tone or mood of the play
5. Group of Actors who speak the same thing at the same time
6. Character who undergoes many changes
7. A play that ends happily
8. The time and place of the story/play
9. A story written to be acted out for an audience
10. The most intense moment of the play
11. Speaker says one thing but means another
12. Three- dimensional character; complex and complicated
13. When the audience knows something that the character does not
14. Person of nobility (mind and stature) who has a tragic flaw that leads to his/her death
15. Character that doesn’t change during the course of the play/story
16. Two consecutive lines that rhyme
17. Lesson that the author is trying to teach us
18. A play with an unhappy ending
19. A character with just one or two traits; often a stereotype
20. When something happens in the play that is not what is expected
21. The part of the play that sets up the story or conflict
22. A long speech said alone on the stage
23. Term for an Actor (from a Greek word)
24. The character that opposes the main character
Recognize/Apply the following terms:
Actor, Act, Scene, Stage Directions, Audience, Character
Pathos Appeals:
Logos Appeals:
Ethos Appeals:
Drama
Couplet
Verbal Irony
Climax
Round Character
Antigone questions:
1. Why is Oedipus’ s family line cursed?
2. Who is Tiresias and what part does he play in the drama?
3. What has happened at the beginning of Antigone?
4. What is Creon’s decree?
5. What does Antigone do to defy Creon’s law?
6. When Creon learns of Antigone’s actions, what does he order to have done to her?
7. What happens when Creon goes to rescue Antigone?
8. Antigone’s father, Oedipus, was also her ______________.
9. When does King Creon become king ?
10. King Creon says that no one may do what?
11. Unlike Antigone, her sister Ismene (compare/contrast them)
12. Antigone is locked in the tomb as punishment for doing what?
13. What do you think was Creon’s downfall? (not just his bad decisions)
14. What characters or traits make Antigone act the way she does?
15. Explain how the following passage is an extended metaphor (what is the metaphor-what does Socrates mean by
it-what is the function of this image)?
CREON: My lords: for what concerns the state, the gods
Who tossed it on the angry surge of strife
Have righted it again…
A man who rules a state
And will not ever steer the wisest course,
But is afraid, and says not what he thinks,
That man is worthless…
For be sure of this:
It is the city that protects us all;
She bears us through the storm; only when she
Rides safe and sound can we make loyal friends.
16. Describe the verbal irony in the following statements:
“But it is those that are the most obstinate
Suffer the greatest fall.” (Creon at Antigone’s arrest.)
“You shall not marry her this side of the grave!” (Creon to Haemon)
17. Describe the situational irony in the following events:
Creon condemned Antigone for loyalty to her brother, yet he demanded loyalty from his son. (What happened
to Creon’s family at the end?)
Antigone hanged herself when she would have been rescued by Creon’s change of heart.
18. Give an example of Creon’s motives in the play…and the consequences of his actions.
19. Give an example of Antigone’s motives in the play…and the consequences of her actions.
20. Describe why Antigone is a tragedy. Include the definition of tragedy and tragic hero in your response.
21. Apply the terms direct and indirect characterization.
22. Write a character analysis paragraph based on facts that you are given about a character.