EOC Review Terms

3. giving something non-living human abilities (The moon smiled on us.)
7. the problem in a story
8. words that name sounds
9. a refutation or denial.
10. text that tells about the sequence of events, usually with the structure of a story
12. the repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words together (Ex. Hungry Happy Hippos Hid)
14. a textual reference to another literary, political, mythological, or religious contemporary work, text, or event.
16. the technical meaning of the words; the literal meaning.
17. this term can refer broadly to the general category that a literary work falls into (drama, poetry, fiction, nonfiction) or more specifically to a certain subset of literary works grouped together on the basis of similar characteristics.
18. all of the elements that go into making a story
19. when the opposite of what is meant or expected happens
20. the means of acknowledging the source of evidence; this refers to both in-text parenthetical citations, as well as the works cited section at the end of the paper. The style of citation (APA, MLA, or Chicago, for example) should reflect the discipline of the topic.

1. the character causing or fueling the conflict in the story
2. phrases or fixed expressions that have figurative or nonliteral meanings (“It’s raining cats and dogs.”).
4. the beginning of a fictional story that includes the characters, setting and introduction of conflict
5. discussing opposites giving equal weight to both
6. Action the part of the story that comes after the climax and shows how things settle back into a norm.
7. the emotional value of the words; the subtext
11. when a writer tries to paint a picture in the mind of the reader using description
13. the feeling that the writer creates for the reader through imagery and diction
15. the time and location of a story
18. the character trying to solve the conflict