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Comprehensive First Semester Reading Review: Key Plot and Character Terms

Prepare for your final exam with this detailed review focusing on plot elements, character types, point of view, and key vocabulary words related to literature. Enhance your understanding of key terms for a successful exam performance.

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Comprehensive First Semester Reading Review: Key Plot and Character Terms

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  1. Strategic Reading First Semester Final Exam Review

  2. Key Terms • 1. Plot • 2. Story’s problem • 3. Conflict • 4. Exposition • 5. Rising Action • 6. Climax • 7. Resolution • 8. Flashback • 9. Flash-forward • 10. Setting • 11. Protagonist • 12. Antagonist

  3. Key Terms cont’d • 13. Subordinate Characters • 14. Flat Character • 15. Round Character • 16. Dynamic Character • 17. Static Character • 18. Dialogue • 19. First Person Point of View • 20. Omniscient Point of View • 21. Third Person Limited Point of View • 22. Narrator

  4. Key Terms cont’d • 23. Reliable narrator • 24. Unreliable narrator • 25. Diction • 26. Tone • 27. Voice • 28. Subject • 29. Theme • 30. Universal Themes • 31. Generalization • 32. Genres • 33. Internal Conflict • 34. External Conflict

  5. Identify Point of View using story passages • Example: • Please read the following passage and then answer the follow-up question. • “I am the worst liar” – Catcher in the Rye • What type of point of view is represented in the quote from Catcher in the Rye? • a. First person Point of View • b. Third Person Limited Point of View • c. Omniscient Point of view • d. Second person Point of View

  6. Identify Key Terms using story passages • Please read the following passage and then answer the follow-up question. • “I couldn’t keep up the pretense any longer, adding one more burden to my load of guilt, leading her on this way, playing a pathetic game of make-believe with an old woman clinging to memories” – “The Moustache” • The above passage can be best described as an example of • a. Tragedy • b. Internal Conflict • c. External Conflict • d. B and C only • e. A and B only

  7. Vocabulary Define and Be Able to Put in Context: • Chronic • Sterile • Lucid • Conspiratorial • Regally • Withstand • Vacant • Suspended • Proportions

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