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English Final Review
Carl Angelo Rabino
5th hr Ms. Otto
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10th Grade English Final Exam Review Writing Process
Tone­
is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience
Ex:Angry: Cans. Beer cans. Glinting on the verges of a million miles of roadways, lying in scrub, grass, dirt, leaves, sand, mud, but never hidden. Piels, Rheingold, Ballantine, Schaefer,
Schlitz, shining in the sun or picked by the moon or the beams of headlights at night; washed by rain or flattened by wheels, but never dulled, never buried, never destroyed. Here is the mark of savages, the testament of wasters, the stain of prosperity. ­Marya Mannes Allusion­
The logical connections that readers or listeners perceive in written or oral text.
Ex: The campaign ended not with a bang but a whimper. Dominant Impression­ is the single mood, atmosphere, or quality a writer emphasizes in a piece of descriptive writing.
Ex:
For this particular Thursday game against Stanford, Fleming wears white gloves, maroon sport coat with brass buttons, and gray slacks. Irony­ is the use of words to suggest something different from literal meaning.
Ex: Jonathan Swift suggested in “A Modest Proposal” that Ireland;s problems could be solved if the people of Ireland fattened their babies and sold them to the English landlords for food, he meant that almost any other solution would be preferable. Conflict­ is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
Ex: Ralph v.s. Jack ­Lord of the Flies Personification
­is a figure of speech in which the writer attributes human qualities to ideas or objects. Ex: The moon bathed the valley in soft, golden light. ­ Corey Davis, student Metaphor­ compares dissimilar ideas or things without using like or as.

Ex: Charm is the ultimate weapon, the supreme seduction, against which there are few defences.
­Lauren Lee
Simile­
compares two essentially different ideas or things

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