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English Vocab
Semester 1 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This character stays the same throughout the story. | static |
| This is the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told. | point of view |
| THis character is described in great detail. | round |
| This is the action that typically follows the climax. | falling action |
| This is the part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict. | resolution |
| When a story is told through one person's eyes and uses I and me. | first person |
| The stories that happen within the story that helps to expand the plot. | subplots |
| This is the part of the plot that begins to occur as soon as the conflict is introduced and it helps to increase the reader's interest. | rising action |
| A character that changes during the story. | dynamic |
| This character opposes the central character. | antagonist |
| Words or phrases that appeal to one of the five senses. Writers use this to describe how their subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smell. | imagery |
| The author shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters | third person omniscient |
| This is the feeling created in the reader by a literary passage. | mood |
| The struggle between opposing forces in a story or play. | conflict |
| This character is not described in great detail. | flat |
| The author shares the thoughts and feelings of a few characters. | third person limited |
| This is the point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in the plot of a narrative. It usually comes at the turning point in a story or drama. | climax |
| This is a word or phrase that means the exact opposite of its literal or normal meaning. | irony |
| Events that are happening at the same time and often the main character is not aware of the events. | parellel episodes |
| the repetition of vowels in the stressed syllables. | assonance |
| A statement about life that the author is trying to get across. | theme |
| The sequence of events in a literary work. | plot |
| This includes all the details of where the story takes place - the year, the time of day, even the weather. | A literary |
| A literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the sequence of events. | flashback |
| This is when a person, place, or thing is used to represent a symbol. | symbolism |
| This is a reference to a famous person, event, place, or literary work. | allusion |
| A person or an animal in a work of fiction. | character |
| This is the part of story that introduces the hcaracters, setting, and basic situation. | exposition |
| This is using sound effect words to sound like what they describe. | onomatopoiea |
| When two unlike things are compared throughout the writing. | extended metaphor |
| A figure of speech that compares twounlike things and uses the words like or as. | simile |
| The truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for a humorous effect. | hyperbole |
| The substituting of one word for another related word. | metonymy |
| Stretching the truth to a great extent. | exaggeration |
| A story in which people, animals or things have hidden meanings to explain or teach some truth. | allegory |
| The act of creating and developing a character. | characterization |
| When there is a contrast between what should happen and what really happens. | situational irony |
| A comparison or a parellel drawn between two things. | analogy |
| When the reader or audience knows more about a situation than the other characters or actors. | dramatic irony |
| A statement of idea which seems to contradict common sense, but may be true. | paradox |
| When a character says the opposite or what he or she means. | verbal irony |
| A short saying stating the truth. | aphorism |
| This character is the main character in a literary work. | protagonist |
| This is a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events. | suspense |
| A figure of speech that compares two or more things that have something in common. It does NOT use like or as. | metaphor |
| The authors's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story. This is used to help readers prepare for what is to come. | foreshadowing |
| The overall feeling or effect created by the writer's use of words. | tone |
| The repetition of sounds, most often consonant sounds, a beginning of words. | alliteration |
| Giving human traits or qualities to objects, animals, imaginary creatures or nonhuman things. | personification |
| A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said. | understatement |
| A brief story relating an interesting or amusing incident. | anecdote |
| The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of a word. | consonance |
| Making something seem mroe important than it really is. | overstatement |
| An expression in which a part stands for a whole. | synedoche |
| A commonly used expression that means something different from what it appears to be. | idiom |
| When two contradictory words come together for a special effect. | oxymoron |
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