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English II EOC
English II Study Terms
Term | Definition |
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Allusion | Reference to a statement, historical event, literature, religion, mythology. |
Paradox | Statement or situation that seems ti be a contradiction but reveals a truth. |
Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses. Most images are visual--They create pictures in the reader's mind by appealing to the senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, hear. |
Personfication | Kind of metaphor in which human qualities are given to something non-human. |
Symbol | Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well. |
Allegory | A narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities. |
Ambiguity | An element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways. |
Satire | Type of writing that ridicules something--a person, a group of people, humanity at large, an attitude or failing, a social institution-- in order to reveal a weakness. |
Simile | A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as". |
Metaphor | A comparison that does not use "like" or "as". |
Hyperbole | An exaggeration used to express strong emotion. |
Pun | A play of multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
Idiom | Expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from literal meaning off the word. |
Foreshadow | The use clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot. |
Flashback | Interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time. |
Summary | Giving a general recap of what was said/written. |
Paraphrase | Using your own words to repeat what was said/written. A paraphrase will be more detailed than a summary |
Web sources | Remember, .edu and .gov are the most reliable types of websites for research |
Oxymoron | Examples: seriously joking, jumbo shrimp, silent scream |
Tone | is a literary compound of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. |
Mood | Gives the feeling of the story. |