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English 9 Vocab Quiz

TermDefinition
Imagery The use of language to represent descriptive things, actions, or abstract ideas.
Round Character Complex and multi-faced; has many traits and fully developed.
Flat character Has only one or two distinct traits or features.
Static Character Remains the same throughout the story.
Dynamic (Developing) Character Undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of their character, outlook, or personality.
Direct Presentation The author (or character in the novel) tells what the character is like.
Indirect Presentation The author does not tell what the character is like, but rather, shows what they are like through their actions.
Resolution (Falling Action) The conflict is decided or resolved.
Conclusion The ending of the story where the impact of the resolution becomes clear.
First Person (POV) Occurs when the character tells the story. Use of 'I' pronoun.
Omniscient (POV) Allows the narrator to relate the thoughts and feelings for all the characters.
Objective (POV) The author only records what is seen and heard.
Mood (Atmosphere) The emotional quality of the story.
Theme The lesson that the author is trying to convey.
Diction Word choice.
Connotation Suggested meaning.
Denotation the actual dictionary definition of a word.
Allusion A direct reference to a proper noun.
Assonance Repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line.
Alliteration The repetition of one or more initial sounds at the beginning of each word.
Euphony The use of flowing, harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing, melodious effect.
Cacophony The use of harsh, inharmonious sounds in close conjunction for effect.
Consonance Repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a line.
Onomatopoeia The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning.
Simile An explicit comparison of two unlike objects using like, as, or than.
Metaphor A direct comparison of two unlike objects where the comparison is implied.
Hyperbole An extreme exaggeration.
Conceit An extended metaphor, a comparison that is often elaborate between dissimilar objects.
Personification To give human qualities to inanimate objects or things.
Apostrophe An address to a person that is not present.
Synesthesia A sensory expression that is expressed in terms of a different sense.
Metonymy The substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself.
Synecdoche A piece or part of the whole represents the whole.
Cliché Words, images, or phrases that have lost their power through overuse.
Litotes A deliberate understatement to make an assertion about something by denying its opposite.
Euphemism To express a disagreeable or unpleasant fact in agreeable language.
Epigram A brief pointed saying that has the nature of a proverb, based on contrast.
Tone The speaker's attitude toward a subject/audience.
Paradox A statement which appears self-contradictory, but underlies a basis of truth.
Rhyming Scheme The way in which a poet arranges rhymes throughout a poem.
Rhetorical devices Those devices which depend for their their effect more upon the ear other than the mind.
Antithesis Sharply opposing ideas are expressed within a balanced grammatical structure.
oxymoron Two contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect.
Dramatic irony Contrast between what the speaker says and what the reader knows to be true.
Narrative poem A storytelling poem. Usually has a plot, setting, setting, characters, and point of view.
Dramatic poem Presents characterization and conflict through a character or "voice".
Sonnet A 14-line lyric poem with a definite structure.
Stock Character A stereotyped character whose nature is immediately known.
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