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Moore Midyear
vocabulary-literary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | a passing or casual reference;and incidental mention of something |
| Analogy | a comparison of unfamiliar objects or ideas to something familiar in order to explain the unfamiliar |
| Characterization | process by which an author makes a character seem real to readers |
| Simile | comparison with "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | comparison without "like" or "as" |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| Personification | giving inanimate objects characteristics of humans or animals |
| Foil | a character who is the direct opposite of another |
| Foreshadowing | a hint of what is to come |
| Imagery | descriptive language that illustrates a scene referencing the 5 senses |
| Inference | a conclusion drawn by evidence or reasoning |
| Irony | opposite of what is expected |
| Juxtapose | to contrast; the point of contrast |
| Mood | tone/aspect of the text perceived by readers |
| Paradox | a contradictory statement that actually makes sense |
| Plot | author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action/focus of the story |
| Point of View | who tells a story/how a story is told |
| Connotation | meaning of words is the opposite of what they say (i.e. sarcasm) |
| Denotation | words contain their exact meaning |
| Protagonist | main character who gains reader's interest/empathy; hero |
| Antagonist | character who conflicts with protagonist and gives rise to conflict; villain |
| Rhyme/Rhyme scheme | words with similar sounds/pattern of rhyming lines in a poem |
| Rhythm | recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry |
| Satire | literary art of ridiculing a folly in order to expose it or correct it |
| Setting | Physical and social context of a literary work |
| Sonnet | lyric poetry with 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter |
| Repetition | re-using words or sounds to make a point |
| Alliteration | repetition of sound in the beginning of a series of words |
| Assonance | repetition of internal vowel sounds |
| Consonance | repetition of identical consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | words that indicate sound |
| Stanza | a grouping of lines in a poem that usually has a set pattern of meter/rhyme |
| Symbol | a person/thing that embodies a deeper meaning |
| Theme | central meaning/dominant idea in a literary work |
| Tone | tone of author/author's opinion |
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