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Grade 9 Ontario English Exam Review Questions with Answers
Grade 9 Ontario English Exam Review Questions with Answers
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Grade 9 Ontario English Exam ReviewQuestions with Answers
Allusion - -A reference to famous or well known text
-Atmosphere - -The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene
-Character - -A person in a story
-Characterization - -A method an author uses to let readers know more
about the characters and their personal traits.
-Conflict - -a struggle between opposing forces;
person vs person
person vs self
person vs society
person vs supernatural
person vs nature
-Dialogue - -Conversation between characters
-Foreshadowing - -a technique for providing clues about events that may
happen later in the story
-Irony - -a particular tone created when the speaker intends a meaning that
is opposite to the words he or she says
-Verbal Irony - -A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of
what is meant aka Sarcasm
-Dramatic Irony - -when the audience knows more about a character's
situation that the character does
-Literary Devices - -techniques or words used to create a particular effect;
include allusion, foreshadowing, imagery, symbolism, metaphor, simile,
sound devices, etc.
-Mood - -the overall feeling created by Diction, setting, Literary Concepts
-Narrator - -the speaker who tells the story; may be a character who
participates in the story or may be the author of a story or poem; speaker
and author are not always the same
, -Plot - -the author's arrangement of events that make up the action of a
story
-Climax - -the moment when the action comes to its highest point of
dramatic conflict
-Falling Action - -follows the climax and leads to the resolution and a sharp
decline in dramatic tension
-Resolution - -follows the falling action and pulls together all the loose
threads of the story; also called the conclusion or denouement
-Point of View - -the perspective the author establishes to tell the story
-First Person Participant - -the narrator participates in the action of the story
(I)
-Third Person Observer - -the narrator does not participate in the action of
the story; may be classified as omniscient (he, she, Mary, Mr. Tucker, etc)
-First Person Limited - -the narrator presents his or her own thoughts which
is only one side of the story
-Sarcasm - -harsh or bitter verbal irony in what one is saying
-Setting - -time and place
-Alliteration - -the repetition of the beginning sounds in groups of words,
usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable
-Assonance - -the close repetition of the me vowel sounds between different
consonants
-Figurative Language - -language that uses figures of speech, such as
simile, metaphor, personification, and alliteration; used extensively to create
imagery
-Free Verse - -poems characterized by their nonconformity to established
patterns of meter, rhyme and stanza
-Hyperbole - -an exaggerated statement used not to deceive, but for
humorous or dramatic effect
-Imagery - -Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell,
touch, taste)
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