LCS Final Exam Questions and Answers
Setting - Answer-time and place
Personification - Answer-A figure of speech that involves treating something nonhuman, such as an
abstraction, as if it were a person by endowing it with humanlike qualities, as in "Death entered the
room."
Internal Conflict - Answer-occur when a character struggles to reconcile two competing desires, needs,
or duties, or two parts or aspects of himself: his head may tell him do one thing, his heart another
External Conflict - Answer-arise between characters and something or someone outside themselves
(individual vs. fate - the fault in our stars)
Pacing - Answer-the duration of a particular episodes—especially relative to each other and the time
they would take in real life. Pace determines focus and emphasis on effect and meaning. (fast paced vs
slow paced)
In media res - Answer-"in the midst of things" (Latin); refers to opening a plot in the middle of the
action, and then filling in past details by means of exposition or flashback.
, Flashback - Answer-a plot-structuring device whereby a scene from the fictional past is inserted into the
fictional present or is dramatized out of order.
Foreshadowing - Answer-when author gives subtle clues or hints about what will happen later in the
story
Plot - Answer-The way the author sequences and paces the events so as to shape our response and
interpretation. The arrangement of the action. Five main parts or phases are exposition, rising action,
climax or turning point, falling action, and conclusion or resolution.
Action - Answer-Sometimes used to refer to the events recounted in a fictional work. Any event or
series of events depicted in a literary work; an event may be verbal as well as physical, so that saying
something or telling a story within the story may be an event. See also climax, complication, falling
action, inciting incident, and rising action.
Dramatic Irony - Answer-An incongruity between what we expect and what actually occurs
Denotation - Answer-a word's direct and literal meaning, as opposed to its connotation
Connotation - Answer-what is suggested by a word, apart from what it literally means or how it is
defined in the dictionary
Syntax - Answer-Word order; the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.
The way sentences are put together (affects the subtlety and force of word choice)
Image - Answer-The ways in which words are used to appeal to sensory details. Also refers to taste,
smell, touch, sound
Symbol - Answer-A person, place, object, or image that represents more than its literal meaning. More
than a passing comparison (such as a simile); instead, as in allegory, its meaning usually relates to most
Setting - Answer-time and place
Personification - Answer-A figure of speech that involves treating something nonhuman, such as an
abstraction, as if it were a person by endowing it with humanlike qualities, as in "Death entered the
room."
Internal Conflict - Answer-occur when a character struggles to reconcile two competing desires, needs,
or duties, or two parts or aspects of himself: his head may tell him do one thing, his heart another
External Conflict - Answer-arise between characters and something or someone outside themselves
(individual vs. fate - the fault in our stars)
Pacing - Answer-the duration of a particular episodes—especially relative to each other and the time
they would take in real life. Pace determines focus and emphasis on effect and meaning. (fast paced vs
slow paced)
In media res - Answer-"in the midst of things" (Latin); refers to opening a plot in the middle of the
action, and then filling in past details by means of exposition or flashback.
, Flashback - Answer-a plot-structuring device whereby a scene from the fictional past is inserted into the
fictional present or is dramatized out of order.
Foreshadowing - Answer-when author gives subtle clues or hints about what will happen later in the
story
Plot - Answer-The way the author sequences and paces the events so as to shape our response and
interpretation. The arrangement of the action. Five main parts or phases are exposition, rising action,
climax or turning point, falling action, and conclusion or resolution.
Action - Answer-Sometimes used to refer to the events recounted in a fictional work. Any event or
series of events depicted in a literary work; an event may be verbal as well as physical, so that saying
something or telling a story within the story may be an event. See also climax, complication, falling
action, inciting incident, and rising action.
Dramatic Irony - Answer-An incongruity between what we expect and what actually occurs
Denotation - Answer-a word's direct and literal meaning, as opposed to its connotation
Connotation - Answer-what is suggested by a word, apart from what it literally means or how it is
defined in the dictionary
Syntax - Answer-Word order; the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.
The way sentences are put together (affects the subtlety and force of word choice)
Image - Answer-The ways in which words are used to appeal to sensory details. Also refers to taste,
smell, touch, sound
Symbol - Answer-A person, place, object, or image that represents more than its literal meaning. More
than a passing comparison (such as a simile); instead, as in allegory, its meaning usually relates to most
