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Notecards/Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tone-The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood. | Mood-In literature, a feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind. |
| Point of View-The way a story gets told and who tells it. | Genre-A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions. |
| Meter-A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress. | Repetition-The return of a word, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature. |
| Stanza-An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem. | Rhyme- A matching similarity of sounds in two or more words, especially when their accented vowels and all succeeding consonants are identical. |
| Alliteration- Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound. | Assonance-Repeating identical or similar vowels (especially in stressed syllables) in nearby words. |
| Imagery-A common term of variable meaning, imagery includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature. | Simile-An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as, in contrast with a metaphor which figuratively makes the comparison by stating outright that one thing is another thing. |
| Metaphor- A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking. | Personification-A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions |
| Symbolism-Frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level. | Irony-A trope in which a speaker makes a statement in which its actual meaning differs sharply from the meaning that the words ostensibly express. |
| Paradox- Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level. | Hyperbole-The trope of exaggeration or overstatement. |
| Understatement-Understatement, the opposite of exaggeration: "I was somewhat worried when the psychopath ran toward me with a chainsaw." | Apostrophe-Not to be confused with the punctuation mark, apostrophe is the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. |
| Metonymy-Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea. |
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