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English 10
Figures of Speech
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words eg. Rats run up roofs |
| Antagonist | A person who is in conflict with the main character |
| Allusion | Reference to a presumably familiar person, place, thing, or event in history. Or reference to a piece of literature or quotation from the bible. |
| Aside | In the theater, a short passage is spoken in undertone to the audience; it is presumed that the characters do hear |
| Atmosphere | The mood of the writing. eg. dar, somber, joyful |
| Audience | Spectators or listeners |
| Ballad | a narrative poem that was written to be sung |
| Bias | a judgement formed before hand with no knowledge or examination of the factseg. all blonds are dumb |
| Blank Verse | Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Character | a person or animal portrayed in a play, novel, story |
| Chronological order | listing by time, often earliest to latest |
| Cliche' | overused phraseIt's raining cats and dogs |
| Climax | The turning point in a plot or dramatic action |
| Colloquial | Speech that is familiar to an area; conversational |
| Comedy | A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical |
| Compare | To examine in order to note the similarities or differences |
| Conflict External Internal | conflict outside the characterconflict inside the character |
| Connotation | An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thingExample: red-anger, hot, danger |
| Contrast | to show differences when compared |
| Denotation | Dictionary meaning of a word |
| Description | A statement or an account describing something |
| dialogue | A conversation between two or more people |
| Direct Presentation | Author tells us straight out |
| Drama | A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story |
| Dynamic Character | This character changes his or her personality or view of life by the end of the story |
| Expositio/expository | Writing that explains |
| Falling action | The events following the climax |
| Figurative Language | Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense, but evokes mental imagery |
| First Person Point of View | In the first-person point of view, usually identifi |
| Flashback | A scene inserted into a film, novel, story or play showing events which happen at an earlier time |
| Flat Character | has a single characteristic |
| Foil | A character whose behaviour and qualities set off or enhance by contrast those of another character |
| Foreshadowing | An indication of enents that are to come |
| Free Verse | Verse that is free of the normal metrical patterns or has an irregular pattern |
| Genre | Type of novel |
| Hyperbole | exaggerated statement smart fool |
| Image | A picture, example or illustration |
| Imagery | Words or phrases that create pictures or images, in the readers mind |
| Indirect Presentation | a character's traits are revealed indirectly by action and speech |
| Irony | figure of speech in which there is a contrast between what is stated and what is really meantYour soooo smart! |
| Jargon | A special language beloninging exclusively to a group, often professional doctors, teachers |
| Limited Omniscient point of view | Lets the reader see into the thoughts and feelings of one character |
| Lyric | a poem, usually fairly short, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelingsonne,ode, and elegy are all specific forms of the lyric poem |
| Metaphor | implied comparision between two unlike things eg. ribbon of smoke |
| Mood | The tone or atmosphere in a drama, book or poem |
| Narration | the act of telling a story |
| Narrative | a story |
| Narrator | the person telling the story |
| Objective Point of View | with the third person objective point of view, the narrator knows only what can be heard and seen as the eye of a camera would see and hear |
| Omniscient Point of View | A narrator who knows everything about all the characters is all knowling, and able to explain what the characters feel and think |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning example: gurgle, moo, buzz |
| Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory and yet is true example The more a man learnsThe more he realizes how little he really knows |
| Personification | Giving human charateristics to animals, ideas and objects |
| Persuasion: persuasive | influencing people to do, believe |
| Plot | The series of events in a story. novel |
| Point of Fiew | The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature |
| Propaganda | A book or literary piece written to inform, or create rumors for the purpose of helping or injuring and institution, a casuse, or a person |
| Protagonist | The story's main character |
| Refrain | A phrase, verse or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especialy at the end of each stanza |
| Resolution | The moment when the conflict ends,and the outcome of the action is clear |
| Rhym | Repetition f sounds int wo or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem example eyes, skies |
| Rhyme Scheme | A pattern of rhymes in a poemabba cdcd efef |
| Simile | A comparison using the words like or as |
| Slang | Expressions that do not belong to standard written EnglishFor example "flipping out" is slang for losing one's mind |
| Sonnet | A poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentametere.g. Shakespearian/ElizabethanPetrarchan/Italian |
| Sarcasm | The act of making fun of someone to hurt their feeling using cutting remarks |
| Satire | A kind of writing that holds up to ridicule the weknesses or wrongdoings of person, or gorups, or governments#it pokes fun at for a serious purpose |
| Setting | The place and time that a novel takes place |
| Speaker | someone who talks |
| STanza | A group of lines of verse |
| Static Character | is a character that does not undergo important change in the novel or play |
| Stereotyped Character | A character that has predictable behaviors, reactions, and patterns |
| Style | The style of speech and writing an author uses |
| Suspense | Builds excitement about something that is going to happen |
| Symbol: Symbolism | Something that stands for or represents and idea, quality or condition e.g. eagle=bravery |
| Theme | The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express in a poem, story, or novel |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes towards his/her subject or audience when writing |
| Tradgedy | A drama in which the outcome tends to result in the death or destrcution of the protagonist or protagonists |
| Understatement | Litotes or understatement:Understating something for the sake of emphasisthe opposite of hyperbole |
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