GOOD MORNING, MY WONDERFUL ENGLISH 9 STUDENTS

Today I am going to be an old-fashioned fuddy duddy teacher.

A throw-back to the classic days of instruction which have become passe and very out-of-date – not to mention extremely ineffective.

However, I am in deep and intense need of some long-term vocal rest. My voice is strained beyond comfort.

And today there will be no lecturing.

So…we’re going to combine several days’ mini-lessons into one today.

Using the text book we started exploring yesterday, please find and define the following literary terms in your notebooks – and be ready to use some

examples where applicable in future classes.

Sorry for being so boring today – but this voice thing concerns me.

ALLUSION

ANALOGY

ANTAGONIST

CLIMAX

CONFLICT

DRAMATIC IRONY

DYNAMIC CHARACTER

EXPOSITION

FALLING ACTION

FICTION

FLAT CHARACTER

FORESHADOWING

GENRE

HYPERBOLE

IMAGERY

IRONY

METAPHOR

MOTIVATION

PERSONIFICATION

PLOT

PROTAGONIST

RESOLUTION

RISING ACTION

SETTING

SIMILE

STATIC CHARACTER

POINT OF VIEW

(first person, third person, omniscient)

SYMBOL/SYMBOLISM

THEME

TONE

ALLITERATION

ONOMATOPOEIA

IDIOM