COMMON FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
VOCABULARY
ALLUSION
• A reference to something outside the work you are reading, watching, etc.• Ex: Cain and Abel story mentioned in Beowulf
• Missed by 28%
ENJAMBMENT
• The continuation of a line of poetry without the use of punctuation at the end of a line.
• Missed by 72%
ANACHRONISM
• Something that is not in its proper timeframe.• Ex: A wristwatch in the play Julius Caesar• Missed by 70%
EXEMPLUM
• A story with a moral or lesson• Ex: Three Little Pigs• Missed by 66%
CAESURA
• Poetic device of inserting a pause in the middle of a line• Missed by 64%
FOIL
• Character who serves as a contrast to another character• 64% missed
ARCHETYPE
• A character, setting, plot or other story element that has occurred in many stories over the course of time.
• Missed by 64%
KENNING
• An Old English poetic technique of using two words to create a metaphor. • EX: Whale-road means ocean.
• Missed by 57%
ANGLO-SAXON
• A Germanic tribe that populated England in the early centuries A.D.• Missed by 57%
FATE
• The idea that key events in the future are predetermined and cannot be changed. • Missed by 53%
MOTIF
• A recurring subject, idea, or element in a literary work.• Missed by 53%
JUXTAPOSITION
• Arranging two ideas side by side for the purpose of contrasting them.• Missed by 53%
EPIC HERO
• Character who fulfills the qualities admired in his/her culture.
FORESHADOWING
• A suggestion of what might happen later in work
POINT OF VIEW
• The perspective from which a story is told.
ROMANTICISM
• Literary period that emphasized emotions, beauty, and nature.
ENLIGHTENMENT
• Literary period that emphasized the development of scientific and philosophical knowledge.
MEDIEVAL
• Historical period that emphasized chivalry, courtly love, and saw little scientific advancement.
SATIRE
• Type of writing that exposes faults through the use of humor.
GOTHIC
• Type of writing that emphasizes the darker elements of romanticism
RENAISSANCE
• Literary period that brought back the Greek classics and produced many new and important works.
TONE
• An artist’s attitude toward his work.
PLOT
• A series of related events
PROTAGONIST
• Main character, often but always the “good guy”
THEME
• The central message of a work• Mr. Walter does not accept a moral as a theme.
SYMBOL
• Something that stands for something else.
SONNET
• A fourteen line poem with a formal rhyme scheme