Midterm Vocabulary Review

Match the following

• Suspense

• the authors use of clues or hints to suggest what will happen later in the story

• Foreshadowing

• the message or lesson that is taught to the readers

• Setting

• the most exciting part of the story; the turning point

• Theme

• where and when a story takes place

• Climax

• the feeling of anxious uncertainty and eager anticipation about the outcome of events

Match the following

• Mood

• what happens is not what one would expect

• Verbal Irony

• the feeling created in the reader by a literary work

• Dramatic Irony

• what is meant is the opposite of what is said (sarcasm)

• Situational Irony

• when readers know more than what the characters do

• internal conflict

• a mental struggle that exists between a character and his or her own self

to ask for something in a serious and emotional way; to beg

• nonchalant

• implore

• asset

• compulsion

a person, skill or quality that is useful or helps you succeed

• implore

• reluctantly

• asset

• compulsion

an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way

• compulsion

• implore

• asset

• nonchalant

calm and not worried; indifferent

• asset

• compulsion

• nonchalant

• reluctantly

not wanting to do something

• reluctantly

• implore

• compulsion

• asset

to issue or spread out from a source

• emanate

• scarce

• reformation

• reckless

doing or saying something without caring about the consequences of your actions

• scarce

• reformation

• contemptuously

• reckless

the act of improving or bettering oneself

• reformation

• scarce

• reckless

• emanate