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Mrs. Allison USJ
English Honors 9th Grade USJ Semester 1 terms
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adjective modifier | A word that answers the questions Which, What kind, or How Many about a noun or pronoun. |
| Adverb modifier | A word that answers the questions When, Where, How, Why, or To what degree about a verb, adjective, or adverb. |
| Allusion | A reference to a person or event from literature, history, or pop culture. |
| Analogy | A comparison between things similar in a number of ways |
| Anaphora | Repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several consecutive sentences or paragraphs. |
| Anecdote | A short account of an entertaining or interesting incident. |
| Antagonist | Any character who opposes another. |
| Analysis | A breaking into parts in order to explain the whole or examine the relationship between units. |
| Archtypes | Pattern established through repitition. |
| Articles | A, An, The. |
| Atmosphere/mood | Creation of a feeling through the use of setting, characters, and diction. |
| Catalogue | A list |
| Characters | The people in a work of literature |
| Characterization | The way characters are developed. Direct statement, Character reveals himself, What others say about him. |
| Chronological order | Organization based on time sequencing |
| Clause | Grammatical structure with a subject and verb |
| Code of Chivalry | Ideal knightly behavior based on bravery, loyalty to king and country, protection of weak, and religinos purity. |
| Colloquialism | An informal expression characteristic of speech and acceptable in unformal writing |
| Comedy | Play that is not a tragedy. |
| Conflict | Opposing element or characters in a plot. man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, man vs. supernatural. |
| Coordinate conjunctions | And, But, Or, Nor, For, So, Yet. |
| Dependent clause | A clause that can't stand alone. |
| Dialect | Copying or imitating speech patterns of a particular group. |
| Diction | Choice of words |
| Direct object | Noun or pronoun that follows action verbs and receives the action. |
| Drama | Peice of literature to be acted on stage. |
| Dramatic irony | Occurs when audience is aware of something but the actors aren't |
| Epic | Long narrative poem |
| Episodic | The whole is made up of many segments each having its own beginning, middle, and end. |
| Essay | Original peice of non-fiction with a limited scope that expresses the writer's opinion of any subject. |
| Evaluation | A judgment, and opinion about a work formulated as a conclusion. |
| Excerpt | A segment of a longer work. |
| Exciting moment | Point at which action begins |
| Exposition | Intro to peice of literature, it contains an intro of characters, discription of setting, and necessary background info. |
| Expository writing | Explanatory writing. |
| Fantasy | A genre of literature that requires a hero on a journey through an imaginary land. |
| Fiction | Writing based on imagination. |
| Figures of speech | Literary devices which add detail to writing |
| First person narrative | Story told from the first-person point of view, ususally using "I". |
| Flashback | Jumping backward in the chronology of a narrative, oftenthrough a dream or musing sequence. |
| Foil | Character opposit or different from the protagonist, used to highlight the protagonist's traits. |
| Foreshadowing | Hint or clue imbedded in a story that fortells the future events in a story. |
| Genre | A kind or style. |
| Grand gesture | Dramatic action, often performed in public, often dangerous, and meant to impress. |
| Helping verb | Verb combined with another verb to form one verb. |
| Heroic paradigm | pattern for actions, behavior, and setting of a heroic fantasy. |
| Hubris | Excessive pride. |
| Imagery | Creating a word picture through an appeal to the senses. |
| Independent clause | Cluase that can stand alone |
| Indirect object | Noun or pronoun that follows an action verb and tells for whome the action is performed. |
| Irony | One thing is expected but another thing happens. |
| Linking verbs | Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, seems, appears. |
| Motif | Recurrent words or phrases. |
| Non-fiction | Writing based on fact |
| Novel | Extended prose fiction. |
| Object complement | A noun, pronoun, or adjective which follows a direct object and discribes and explains it |
| Paraphrase | A rendering in other worsds of the sense of a text or passage. |
| Parenthetical expression | A word or phrase inserted in a sentence which neitheradds to or changes its meaning |
| Phrase | Group of words without subject and verb |
| Point of view | Position from which a story is told |
| Predicate verb | The main verb in a sentence expressing action or state of being |
| Protagonist | The character with which the reader identifies, usually the main character |
| Purpose | To entertain, to inform, to educate or to persuade. |
| Resolution | Solution to conflict. |
| Rite of Passage | A story in which the main character undergoes or experiences a series of events that result in a change in his attitude of stage of life. |
| Romance | Story about heroic deeds, mysterious settings, or love. |
| Satire | Literature that makes fun of social conditions or conventions, often for the purpose of creating changes. |
| Short Story | A genre built around few characters, a single incedint, and ment to be read in one sitting. |
| Sentence | group of words with a subject, verb and a complete thought. |
| Setting | Time and plase of action in a story |
| Speaker | Narrator in poem |
| Subject | Who or what performs the action in a sentence. |
| Subject complement | Noun, pronoun, or adjective which follows a linking verb and describes the subject. |
| Subordinate conjunctions | As, as if, as soon as, if although, even though, when, wherever, since, because. |
| Summary | The restatment of main ideas of a peice of literature. |
| T-SIR | Topic sentence, support, illustration, relevance. |
| Theme | The author's illustration of a belief or value. |
| Tone | Mood brought forth by the story or poem |
| Verbal irony | When you say one thing and mean something else. |
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