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English Terms
Figurative Language and etc.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Refrain | The repeated section of a rhyme |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhyme |
| Diction | Word choice of the author or narrator |
| Denotation | The actual dictionary meaning of the word |
| Allegory | Symbolic work representing something else |
| Animal Imagery | To give humans or things animal characteristics |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhyme |
| Diction | Word choice of the author or narrator |
| Protagonist | Main character of a type of genre |
| Ambiguity | When a word has more than 1 meaning |
| Synesthesia | The mixing of senses or imagery |
| Oxymoron | 2 opposite words side by side |
| Characterization | Describing someone using adjectives or something they might say |
| Litotes | Opposite of hyperbole, an understatement |
| Imagery | Writing that appeals to the senses |
| Onomatopoeia | Words who's sound echoes its meaning |
| Alliteration | The use of the same consonant or sound at the beginning of the word |
| Metaphor | Comparison not using like or as |
| Internal Rhyme | A rhyme within a single line of poetry |
| Paradox | To make a contradiction to self |
| Style | The way the writer chooses to express him/herself |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech when a part is used to represent a whole |
| Near Rhyme | Rhymes that almost rhyme but don't |
| Persona | Representation of one's self that the author takes on |
| Irony | Not literal, or what you actually mean or expect |
| Setting | The location and time of a scene |
| Soliloquy | When a character is talking to himself with no one else on the stage |
| Framing | A story within a story |
| Antagonist | A person who actively opposes the main character |
| Situational Irony | When something happens that you don't expect, karma |
| End Rhyme | A rhyme at the end of each line |
| Personification | Animals, ideas or object that are given characteristics |
| 1st Person point of view | Tells the story as if it were an autobiography |
| Omniscient point of view | The narrator can see into the mind of all characters |
| Verbal Irony | the opposite of what you mean, sarcasm |
| Dramatic Irony | The reader knows something that the other characters don't |
| Antithesis | Similar structure with opposite means |
| Figurative Language | Figurative means not taken literally |
| Connotation | An idea or feeling associated with the word |
| Motif | An idea or element that keeps repeating in a ype of genre |
| Simile | Comparison of 2 things using like or as |
| Theme | Text to self, text to world, and text to text |
| Genre | The type or category of music or literaure |
| Allusion | Reference to another person, place or thing (Biblical and historical) |
| Conflict | Disagreement or argument (Man v. Man, Man v. Self, Man v. Nature, and Man v. Society) |
| Hyperbole | The exaggeration of a statement |
| Satire | Making fun of a previous element |
| Synesthesia | The mixing of senses |
| Symbol | Something that represents something other than itself |
| Apostrophe | direct address to someone who isn't there |
| Sight Rhyme | Words that look like they should rhyme |
| Consonance | Repeated consonant sound |
| Metonymy | Substitution of 1 word for another idea in itself |
| Mood | A feeling you get once reading something |
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