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SLO Review
Key Terms for English 3 Final@BLHS-2015-2016
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| three kinds of irony | verbal - sarcasm, dramatic - suspense, situational - suprise |
| verbal irony | what is said is the opposite of what is meant; sarcasm |
| situational irony | a character or the reader expects one thing to happen, but something else happens instead; suprise |
| dramatic irony | the audience or the reader knows something that the characters do not know; suspense |
| theme | the moral or life lesson |
| climax of the plot | the event that changes everything; can be in the middle or at the end of a story or poem |
| schooled | educated or taught |
| singular | remarkable, extraorinary |
| venerable | respected, admired, and generally well-behaved |
| forshadowing | hints in a story of what events are to come later |
| flashback | events that already happened narrated as part of a story |
| personification | giving human qualities to a non-human being or object |
| visage | a person's face |
| universal theme | a life experience conman to everyone, everywhere, at any time period |
| understatement | stating less strongly or strikingly than the actual facts |
| withered | a shriveled up or dried out person |
| melancholy | an overly sad or depressed person |
| foul | a grossly offensive or loathsome person |
| author's purpose | to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to give directions |
| energize | to persuasively motivate the audience to take action |
| celestial | heavenly; from heaven |
| tyranny | unlimited use of power by a ruler or government |
| shrink | to back off from |
| tone | the feeling or emotions of the author, for example: serious, sarcastic humorous, or angry |
| symbolism | when an object stands for an idea or emotion larger than itself |
| imagery | words that appeal to the 5 senses |
| infer | to conclude or judge with evidence |
| hubmle | not proud or arrogant; modest |
| rhetorical device | techniques for arguing, such as repetition, analogies,or rhetorical questions |
| alliteration | a sound device using repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| allusion | a reference to a piece of literature or popular culture with which the audience should be familar |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as" |
| intellect | brainpower; reasoning |
| dialect | the way people in a certain place or time commonly talk |
| informal tone | using common, simple words to connect to a broad audience |
| transition | a word that connects two sentences or phrases together, such as "ultimately" or "for example" |
| thesis | the main idea of a longer passage or essay |
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