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Fahrenheit 451
Eighth Grade Language Arts
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of the initial sounds at the start of words. Example: The twisting trout twinkled below |
| Allusion | A reference to a well known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art |
| Characterization | Ways an author uses to create and develop a character. Five ways an author can create a character: What a character looks like (physical appearance), what a character says (speech), what a character does (action), what a character thinks and feels |
| Flashback | Part of the story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an earlier conversation or event |
| Foreshadowing | Clues that help the reader predict future events of the story |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. Example: “Ages have passed since I last saw you”. You may not have met him for three or four hours or a day, but the use of the word “ages” exaggerates this statement to add emphasis to your wait |
| Irony | Literary techniques that involve differences between the expected outcome and the actual outcome or between appearance and reality |
| Verbal Irony | Saying the opposite of what you mean, sarcasm in the form of verbal irony |
| Situational Irony | Occurs when there is an unexpected turn of events; when the opposite of what the reader expects happens |
| Dramatic Irony | When the reader knows what will happen in the story, but the characters do not |
| Mood | The feeling created in the reader by the literary work or passage; it is often suggested by descriptive details |
| Setting | The time and place of the action of the story; time can include not only the historical period, but also the specific year, season, or time of day; place may include not only the geographical place – region, country, state, or town – but also the social, |
| Symbol | An object or activity that stands for or represents something else |
| Juxtaposition | A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts |
| Sentence Structure/Syntax | Word order and sentence structure |
| Rhetorical Question | “To affirm or deny a point strongly by asking it as a question." Generally, as Melanchthon has noted, the rhetorical question includes an emotional dimension, expressing wonder, indignation, sarcasm, |
| Listing | Placing several ideas in a row; it may emphasize an idea through quantity of description or make an abstract idea more concrete |
| Repetition | Stating an idea or word more than once. “Repetition is a major rhetorical strategy for producing emphasis, clarity, amplification, or emotional effect.” A writer may repeat a word, a sound or letter, a phrase or clause, or idea |
| Symbol | Something that has its own meaning but that stands for or represents something else |
| Imagery | Descriptive language that employs one or more of the five senses |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech comparing one thing to another without using “like” or “as”; one thing is said to be another. · The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted and will produce no crop…unless it be continually fertilized and enr |
| Extended Metaphor | As in a regular metaphor, a subject is spoken or written of as though it were something else. However, an extended metaphor differs from a regular metaphor in that several comparisons are made |
| Simile | A figure of speech where “like” or “as” are used to make a comparison between two unlike ideas |
| Personification | A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics |
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