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Academic Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | A extended metaphor in which the objects or characters represent stuff outside the story |
| Allusion | a reference to a famous work |
| Alliteration | Repeating the same letter in a sentence |
| Analogy | A comparison between two things for an explanation |
| Anaphora | The use of a word referring to a another word already used earlier in the sentence. |
| Anecdote | A short narrative giving details of an interesting event |
| Anticlimax | a disappointing end. |
| Aphorism | The truth |
| Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which some absent thing is addressed as if present of understanding |
| Approximate rhyme | Same vowel sound |
| Assonance | Repetition of the sound of a vowel |
| Ballad | Song narrating a story in short stanzas |
| Biography | A story of someone’s life written by someone else |
| Catharsis | The process of releasing |
| Climax | The main events of the story |
| Comedy | A lighter dorm of drama |
| Conflict | Problems |
| Consonance | Agreement between opinions or actions. |
| Couplet | 2 lines of verses that are joined by rhymes |
| Description | A detailed explanation |
| Denouement | The resolution |
| Drama | an emotional series of events |
| Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without pause. |
| Epitaph | A statement written in memory who is ded. |
| Exposition | Introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers. |
| Feminine | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables |
| Fiction | Fake |
| Foreshadowing | Hints at something that will happen later in the story |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerated phrase |
| Imagery | Visually descriptive language |
| Irony | A broad term referring to the difference between reality and appearance |
| Juxtaposition | The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect |
| Lyric | Expressing the writer's emotion |
| Melodrama | A dramatic piece with exaggerated characters. |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two items without like or as. |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phase is substituted for another with which it is closel |
| Narration | The action of narrating a story |
| Non-fiction | Not fake |
| Ode | Lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose pronunciation suggest their meaning |
| Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear side by side |
| Paradox | It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth. |
| Parallelism | Parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction. |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to non living/nonhuman things |
| Persuasion | The action of persuading |
| Quatrain | A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes |
| Rhyme | Same sound between words |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as |
| Slant rhyme | A type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds |
| Symbol | The use of one object or action to represent or suggest something else |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |
| Tercet | A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together. |
| Tragedy | A drama which recounts the events of the life of an important person and has an unhappy ending |
| Setting | a time or place |
| Sarcasm | a mocking statement |
| Resolution | The events that follow the climax called Falling Action |
| Repetition | rewording the same idea |
| Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understanding in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its oppisite |
| Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry |
| Enjambment | A phrase, a clause, or a sentence in a line of poetry doesn't finish at the line break but spills over into the next line |
| Cliche | A expression used so long and often that it's freshness and clarity has worn off |
| Character | A person in a story |
| Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas |
| Theme | The central idea |
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