Ms. Madden’s
Study Guide for
Semester II Exam
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Outline for Exam II
Review
• Review of Literary Terms
• Flash Card Game
• Literary Terms Quiz
• Of Mice and Men Review
• Patterns of Organization
Character:
 a person or animal that takes part in the action
of a literary work
Protagonist:
 the central character in a literary work; usually
portrayed as the “good guy”
Antagonist:
 any force in the story that is in conflict with the
protagonist…may be another character, an aspect
of the physical or social environment, or a
destructive element in the protag’s own nature;
usually portrayed as the “bad guy.”
Point of View:
 First Person the story is told by one of its characters, usually
the protagonist, using the first person (I)
 Third person limited the narrator tells the story from one character’s
point of view, they reveal only what that character
thinks, feels, sees and hears.
 Third person omniscient the narrator knows all there is to know about each
character and tells the story from all perspectives.
Direct characterization:
 The author simply states a character’s traits,
as when F. Scott Fitzgerald writes of the main
character in his story, “Winter Dreams”, “He
wanted not association with glittering things
and glittering people-he wanted the glittering
things themselves.”
Monologue
 A speech delivered entirely by one person or
character.
Dialogue
 A conversation between characters.
Dialect
 The form of a language spoken by people in a
particular region or group, helps to create local color.
Metaphor
 A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of
as though it were something else, i.e. as in “death is a
long sleep.”
Simile
 A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison
between two subjects using either “like” or “as,” i.e.
“my love is like a rose” or “her hair was as red as a
sunset.”
Indirect characterization:
 Author indirectly reveals a character’s traits through:
•Words, thoughts, or actions of the character
•What other characters say about the character
•The ways in which other characters react to the
character
Allusion:
 An allusion is a reference to a well-known person,
place, event, literary work, or work of art. Writers
often make allusions (refer to) characters, places and
events that originally appeared in the Bible, Greek
and Roman Myths and the works of famous authors
such as Shakespeare. Also certain political and
historical events can be allusions.
Allegory:
 An allegory is a story or tale with two or more levels
of meaning. There is a literal and a symbolic meaning.
The events, setting and characters in an allegory are
symbols for ideas or qualities.
Conflict:
 A clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the
plot of a story.
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Himself
Mood
 Mood, or atmosphere is the feeling created in the
reader by a literary work or passage. Elements that
influence the mood include:
Setting, Tone, Events.
Tone
 The writers attitude towards his or her subject,
characters, or audience. Tone may be formal or
informal, friendly, distant or serious.
Stream of Consciousness
 A narrative technique that presents thoughts as if
they were coming directly from a character’s mind.
Instead of being arranged in chronological order,
events are presented from the character’s point of
view mixed in with the character’s thoughts just as
they might spontaneously occur.
Genre
 A division or type of literature. Major genres
include:
Poetry, prose, and drama.
Flash Card Game
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Literary Terms Quiz!!
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Of Mice and Men
Review
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Patterns of Organization:
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of organization
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• You have now completed the exam review.