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EOC Terms to Know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fiction | the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration |
| Drama | any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, or striking interest |
| Comedy | an amusing event or sequence of events |
| Tragedy | a shocking or sad event |
| Dialogue | the conversation between characters in a novel, drama |
| Monologue | any composition, as a poem, in which a single person speaks alone |
| Rhyme | a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences |
| Direct Characterization | the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets. |
| Indirect Characterization | the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc. |
| Setting | the surroundings or environment of anything |
| Plot Elements | literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of a story |
| Foreshadowing | be a warning or indication of (a future event) |
| Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story |
| External Conflict | struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character |
| Internal Conflict | psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character |
| Point of View | a particular attitude or way of considering a matter |
| Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation |
| Mood | a temporary state of mind or feeling |
| Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic |
| Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work |
| Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities |
| Controlled idea/thesis | |
| Parallel Structure | repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance |
| Semicolon Rules | The semicolon shows that the ideas in the two clauses are related: “Jack really didn't mind being left without a car; he had the house to himself.” |
| Colon Rules | a punctuation mark (:) indicating. that a writer is introducing a quotation or a list of items. that a writer is separating two clauses of which the second expands or illustrates the first. |
| Independent Clause | a group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought |
| Dependent Clause | a clause that provides an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence |
| Dramatic Irony | a literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character |
| Situational Irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected |
| Verbal Irony | Verbal irony is a figure of speech. The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says. |
| Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. |
| Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid |
| Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form |
| Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
| Idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words |
| Connotation vs. Denotation | Connotation refers to the wide array of positive and negative associations that most words naturally carry with them, whereas denotation is the precise, literal definition of a word that might be found in a dictionary |
| Author's Purpose | To persuade is the first main type of author's purpose. Text written to persuade means the author's goal is to convince the reader to agree with the author. |
| Rhetoric | language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content |
| Textual Evidence | Textual evidence is the core of argument and analysis. Textual evidence is support lifted directly from text to support inferences, claims, and assertions |
| Direct Quote | Using an author's language word for word (verbatim) |
| Paraphrase | express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity |
| Parallelism | the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way |
| Anaphora | the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they |
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