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IB commentary terms
Words useful in writing IB english commentaries
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alienation | In Capitalism we are estranged from our true natures |
| Allegory | A story that corresponds to another on a deeper level |
| Bathos | A descent from the serious to the ridiculous |
| Allusion | A reference to another work |
| Ambiguity | Unknown, unclear meaning |
| Ambivalence | a complex attitude that has multiple parts |
| Antithesis | Contrasting ideas by balancing opposite words |
| Apostrophe | addressing something inanimate or an off-stage character |
| Bildungsroman | A coming-of-age novel |
| Blank verse | unrhymed poetry not broken into stanzas |
| Caesura | A stop in the middle of a line of poetry |
| Caricature | an exaggurated representation of a character emphasizing a few features |
| Colloquial | Informal register (vocabulary) |
| Conceit | A witty thought, idea, or image of 16th-17th century english poetry |
| Contradiction | Where a stated fact conflicts with something said earlier |
| Connotation | an association that a word has |
| Defamiliarization | Making the familiar seem new and strange |
| Denouement | How the novel turns out |
| Diction | Word choice |
| Didactic | An instructive tone |
| Dramatic irony | Where characters know less than the audience/other characters |
| Elegy | A mournful lament for times or people past |
| End-stopped line | Where the idea stops at the end of a line |
| Enjambement | Where the meaning flows between lines |
| Epigram | A concise, pointed, witty statement |
| Form | The structure of a work |
| Free verse | Poetry with no set meter or rhyme |
| Grain | The assumptions and values of a text |
| Idyll | The innocent, simple life in an idealised, rural setting |
| Imagery | Descriptions that appeal to the senses |
| Internal rhyme | Rhyme that happens within a line |
| Irony | A gap between that is said and what is intended |
| Lyric | An almost musical piece with emphasized feeling |
| Mimesis | use of words suggesting movement, shape, size, texture |
| Mood | A person's or group of people's state of feeling |
| Motif | Recurring elements in a work |
| Oxymoron | Two joined words of opposite meaning |
| Paradox | A seemingly contradictory statement that makes sense |
| Personification | Human qualities given to inanimate objects or ideas |
| Rhythm | Nontechnical flow of sound created by stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Skaz | A narration technique that mimics oral narration |
| Story | The chronological list of events of a narrative |
| Plot | The events of a novel in the order told |
| Tone | The technique of writing to convey an attitude |
| Trochee | A foot of stressed and then unstressed |
| Subtext | Ideas, feelings, etc. existing underneath the text |
| Symbol | An object that represents something of wider significance |
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