Thursday, May 12, 2011

SOL Study Guide

Study the following things to help you on the SOL test:

Monologue

Soliloquy

Aside

Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony

Simile

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Allusion

Initiating event

Main idea

Theme

Archetypes

Antagonist

Protagonist

Stage directions

Context clues-use clues in sentence to determine meaning of word. You may have to read more than the one sentence to figure out the meaning.

Conflict-internal v. external

Imagery-painting a picture in reader’s mind using 5 senses

Tone-author creates a tone using words and images

Mood

Author’s purpose of writing the material- main reason