Examinable+Terms+(for+the+Provincial+Exam)

Here is a list of terms that students writing the English 10 Provincial Exam are expected to understand. Please note that some of these terms **have not** been taught in English 11 - you may have been taught them in earlier classes!

Here is another list of terms you should know: However, these definintions are a little harder to understand! These terms are also all found below.

Here are a few more lists of terms!


=Examinable Terms and Devices in Literature (English 11)= A  **Active Voice** B  **Bias**  **Biography**  **Blank Verse** //I let my neighbour know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go.// - "The Mending Wall," Robert Frost C  **Character**  **Character Foil**  **Chronological Order**  **Cliche**  **Climax**  **Colloquial**  **Comedy (drama)** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Compare** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Conflict** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Connotation**__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Consonance**__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Contrast** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Couplet** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Critical Incident** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">D Denotation Denouement Description Dialogue Diary Diction Direct Presentation Dissonance Drama Dramatic Irony Dynmaic Character <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">E Editorial Elegy Epic Exposition Expository <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">F Fable Falling Action Fantasy Figurative Language First Person POV Flashback Flat Character Foil Foreshadowing Formal Essay Free Verse <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">G Genre Graphic Text/Novel <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">H Hero Hyperbole is pronounced //hi-PER-bow-lee//, not //hyper-bowl//. It is a poetic technique often used by poets.
 * Please note that this list is unfinished - and won't be completed for some time. It does, however, list all of the terms you are required to know! For now, please use the files above to define these terms.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">When speaking or writing in the active voice, the subject of a verb does the action.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example: //The __dog__ bit my friend.//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Also see: //Passive Voice//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Alliteration **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Involves the repetition of a sound in a group of words or line of poetry.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Usually is the first letters of the respective words.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example: //The __s__un __s__ank __s__lowly.//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Allusion **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Is an indirect reference (connection) to a person, story or situation in literature or history.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example: //My mark went the way of the Titanic!// (my mark went down)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example: //He was Romeo to her Juliet.// (They were madly in love, but not meant to be together)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Analogy **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">To make a connection between two different things to show how they are similar using //inference//.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example: //The __solar system__ is// similar to an __atom__. (they both have a centre, that objects circle)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Antagonist **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The person or thing in conflict with the protagonist of a story.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For Example: //The antagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy, is named Sauron.//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Anti-Climax **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A part of a stories plot.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Is an event that appears as if it could end the conflict in the story, but doesn't.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Aside **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A piece of dialogue in a play that is intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Argumentative Essay **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Expository writing that proves your claim is better than other claims about a subject or topic.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Assonance **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The repeated use of a vowel sound, usually contained within words. Similar to **Rhyme**.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example: //"Sw__e__et Dr__e__ams"//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example: //"Old __a__ge should burn and r__a__ve at close of d__a__y; R__a__ge, r__a__ge, ag__ai__nst the dying of the light."// (Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night")
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Atmosphere **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The dominant tone or mood of a work of art. See "mood."
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Examples: Cheerful, depressing, upbeat, serious, playful, comic etc
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Audience **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The readers for printed matter, such as a book, poem, short story or infotext.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The spectators or listeners assembled for a performance, listening to a radio or watching a film, television or other visual medium.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">May also refer to the audience that an author or poet intended for his/her work.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Autobiography **
 * The non-fictional story of a person's life written by that person.
 * The non-fictional story of a person's life written by that person.
 * Ballad**
 * A narrative story or poem (it tells a story).
 * Is divided into different Stanzas.
 * Often has a recurring (repeating) refrain or chorus.
 * An opinion that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.
 * For example:
 * The non-fictional story of a person's life written by someone other than that person.
 * For example:
 * Poetry without a rhyme scheme, but usually following a meter.
 * For example: Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse in Iambic Pentameter (meter).
 * For Example:
 * Cause and Effect**
 * A topic for paragraph or essay writing that discusses or analyzes the reasons for, and/or the consequences of, an action, event, or decision.
 * Often used in Social Studies or History!
 * For example:
 * A fictional or imaginary character represented in a work of fiction, such as a short story, novel, poem or play.
 * A foil is a character who serves as a contrast to another perhaps more primary character, so as to point out specific traits of the primary character.
 * For example: //In __The Shawshank Redemption__, Brooks is a character foil for Red. Brooks, having been institutionalized during the 40 years he lived in prison, feels that he has no choice but to end his life when he is released. Red is also tempted to kill himself for the same reasons, but chooses to believe in hope because of Andy. Thus, Brook's suicide shows us how difficult it was for Red to choose to live, and emphasizes how much Andy had changed Red.//
 * For example: In "the Giver," by Lois Lowry, Asher is a character foil for Jonas.
 * When events are arranged in the order in which they occured.
 * The Chronological Order of a plot can broken by flashbacks.
 * Foreshadowing, prophecy or flash-forwards can also break the Chronological Order of a plot.
 * An expression or idea that is overused.
 * A character or person whose behaviour is predictable or superficial.
 * For example: //Life is like a box of chocolates...//
 * The part of a plot which ends the conflict in a story.
 * Is typically the most emotional or action-packed moment of the story.
 * For example:
 * Informal spoken language, which may, or may not follow the rules of grammar.
 * Often includes regional slang or accents.
 * For example: //The dialogue of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," is written in a colloquial style.//
 * A genre of literary work, usually drama, which has a happy ending.
 * For example: //A romantic comedy often ends with a marriage or engagement.//
 * Also includes literature that emphasizes humour, be it slapstick, physical, satire or other forms.
 * To show the **similarities** between two things.
 * The problems encountered by characters within a narrative.
 * It is usually because of the conflict that the plot moves forward.
 * **Who** conflict is between is typically identified as "person vs. __." This could be:__
 * __Nature, machine, person, nature, supernatural, self, society__
 * __The **type** of conflict can also be identified. For example, the conflict could be emotional, intellectual, physical or moral.__
 * __The feelings and connections attached to a word.__
 * __**NOT** the dictionary definition of the word.__
 * __For example: //Skinny is a neutral word. Svelte is a postive word used to describe models and beauty. Boney is a negative word, perhaps even an insult.//__
 * __A literary device similar to **Rhyme** or **Assonance**.__
 * __Is the repatition of the same consonant sound within a sentence or line of poetry.__
 * __For example: "//the//__ //m__u__rm__u__r__ing of innu__m__e__r__able bees" (m's and r's)//
 * To show the **differences** between two things.
 * A stanza of two rhyming lines of poetry.
 * The first major complication in a story or plot.
 * Removes the possibility the setting or characters will remain static (unchanging).

//There were galaxies of stars in her eyes.// //The night before finals, I must have studied for about a million hours.//

Hyperbole is gross a exaggeration to create a particular effect (//gross// meaning //immense//, not //disgusting//, in this case).

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">I Idiom Image Imagery Indirect Presentation Informal Essay Internal Rhyme Irony <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">J Jargon <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">L Legend Limited Omnicient POV Literal Language Lyric <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">M Metaphor Metonymy Metre The feeling the reader gets when reading a literary work <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Mystery Myth <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">N Narration Narrative Narrator <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">O Objective POV Ode Omniscient POV Onomatopoeia Oxymoron <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">P Passive Voice Paradox Personal Essay Personification Persuasion/Persuasive Plot Point of View Propaganda Pros and Cons Protagonist Proverb <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">Q Question and Answer <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">R Refrain Repetition Research Resolution Rhetorical Question Rhyme Rhyme Scheme Rhythm Rising Action Round Character <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">S Satire Setting Simile Slang Sonnet The speaker is the narrator or the voice of the literary work. “The speaker” is not necessarily the poet or author When discussing a literary work, refer to the person vocalizing the words as “the speaker,” instead of “the poet.” A poet can give his character any ideas or beliefs that are necessary for the execution of the literary work’s purpose. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Stanza Static Character Stereotyped Character Style Subjective language Surprise Ending Suspense Symbol/Symbolism <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">T Theme Third Person POV A literary work's tone is the attitude that its style implies. The author’s attitude toward a subject The tone can be revealed through choice of words and details //Ex. Pessimistic, optimistic, seriousness, humorous, joyful,// //Hopeful, Sarcastic, Angry, Sad// //etc.//
 * Mood**
 * Speaker**
 * Tone**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Tragedy <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">U Understatement <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 230%;">V Voice