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Vocab Test #2 Review
Review incldues terms from set#5 to set #9
| Term | Defintion | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Diction | The choice of words that an author uses to convey an idea or to tell a story in an effective manner | "Yes ma'am" shows respect to someone who is older than you |
| Dramatic Irony | Tthe author and audience knows what's going on but the other characters don't | An example of dramatic irony might be the fact that the audience knows that a woman is getting cheated, but the woman in the story doesn't |
| Dystophia | A vision of the future that challenges the readers to reflect on the current social and political environment | The Hate U Give |
| Elegy | A form of poetry that usually reflects on death or loss | The Bullet Was A Girl by Denez Smith |
| Ellipsis | A device used to omit certain parts of a sentence or event, giving the reader a chance to fill in the gaps | I want to be with you, but I just can't... I just can't. |
| Epic | A long narrative poem that talks about the heroic deed of someone or a group | Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| Sonnet | A little song or sound that is made up of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet and the end with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme | Sonnet 13 by William Shakespeare |
| Enjambment | Continuing a sentence or clause across a line break | I love you more than you will ever know |
| Epithet | A description of a noun to make their characteristics more prominent | The Wicked With of the West |
| Epistolary Novel | Works of fiction that are written as a letter or document | The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney |
| Euphony | The use of words and phrases with a wide range of melody or loveliness in the sound. | The word tum |
| Ethos, Pathos, and Logs | Appeals to ethic, emotions, and logic | "Now you know that you wouldn't someone to do that to you" |
| Existential Crisis | A psychological episode where someone questions the meaning of their life and their existence after suffering a major crisis | When someone is moving on to the next phase in their life after high school and is thinking about what carrer that they want to pursue |
| Explication | Explaining a piece a writing or an idea in detail | A student analyzing a few lines or a section of a book to mention how it connects to a theme that they found |
| Extended Metaphor | A continuous metaphor in lines, paragraphs, or poetry | Her strength reminds me of Hulk. She can pick up heavy weights with ease, repeatedly. They may be light to her, but they are heavy to others. |
| Fable | A short story that gives you a moral lesson towards the end | The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Farce | A genre and type of comedy that uses extreme exaggeration and funny situations to entertain the audience that is crazy | The cartoon Tom and Jerry |
| Feminine Rhyme | One unstressed two syllable rhyme followed by another | The word reason |
| Figurative Language | Uses figures of speech to have an effect, persuade, or leave an impact on the audience | It is as quiet as a church mouse in here. |
| Flashback | Interrupts the plot to show readers an event from the past. | In Genny and Georgia where they show that obstacles that Georgia has overcome when she was raising Genny on her own that still impact her |
| Foil | A character who is contrasted against another character to make a point | Mary, Lydia, and Kitty foil Jane, Elizaebeth, and Lizzy |
| Foot (Metrical Foot) | A measurement unit used in poetry that is made of stressed and unstressed syllables | I can be what you want |
| Frame Story | A story that’s set within a story, movie, or narrative that’s told by the main character. | Robert Walton in Frankenstein telling the story from his point of view |
| Free Verse | Poetry that isn’t limited by regular meter or rhyme and doesn’t rhyme with any fixed forms. | After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman |
| Genre | A form, class, or type of literary work | A romantic novel or a melodrama novel |
| Gothic Novel | A novel that heavily emphasizes on terror, death, mystery, extreme emotion, and romance. | Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
| Heroic Couplet | Lines of poetry written in iambic pentameter | Macbeth by William Shakespeare |
| Hubris | A character that has so much pride and confidence that they belive that they can't do anything wrong | Jay Gatsby |
| Hyperbole | A prideful character trait that leads a protagonist to act in a way that goes against good morals. | Your bag weighs a ton, what do you have in there? |
| Iamb | A foot that includes unaccented and short syllables followed by an accent syllable in a line of a poem | The love you hold is strong |
| Idiom | A commonly used expression that speakers use in a certain language where the figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning | Kill two birds with one stone |
| Imagery | Using figurative language to create an image for the reader with their words | She was a 5'9 dark skinned girl with long curly hair and beautiful brown eyes |
| In Media Res | Narrating a story in the middle after assuming that the audience knows about events that occurred in the past. | The Odyssey by Homer |
| Intentional Fallacy | Judging a piece of work by assuming that the intention of the work is equal to the meaning of the the work | If a little kid draws a picture that looks like a dog and says it’s a cat. I can’t judge the intention of the little kid for trying to make the picture look like a dog. |
| Irony | Contradictory statements that exposes a reality to be different than it appears to be | It's a cold and rainy day on a beautiful hot summer day |
| Litotes | A figure of speech where a phrase includes negative words to express a positive statement | It's not rocket science |
| Magical Realism | It presents a fantasy as reality | Harry Potter |
| Melodrama | A subgenre for drama that is an exaggerated form of drama | The Great Gatsby |
| Metaphor | Comparing two things without using the word like or as | Her strengthy reminds me of Hulk |
| Metaphysical Poetry | A philosophical concept that describes the things that are beyond the description of physical existence. | The Sun Rising by John Donne |
| Meter | The basic rhyme structure that is used in a line of poetry made up of stressed and unstressed syllables | Let it snow, Let it snow |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech where one object or idea is replaces a close association | A silver fox |
| Monologue | One character is talking alone and to themselves | When an upset child goes in there room after getting mad at theirparents and talking about how they feel to themeselves |
| Motif | A repetition of an object or idea | When someone repeatedly talks about how much they like tall athletic boys |
| Narrator | A person who tells a story from their point of view | Invisbile Man by Ralph Ellison |
| Non Sequitur | A reply that is illogical from the last statment | I am failing my class. I should go to Brazil. |
| Octave (in poetry) | A verse in poetry that is made up of eight lines | Whoso Listen to Hunt, I Know Where is an Hind by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| Ode | A poem that celebrates a person, place, or thing | A poem about celebrating someone who just graduated college |
| Onomatopoeia | It indicates a word that sounds like its reference or description. It is a vocal imitation of a word. | buzz or ouchhhh |
| Oxymoron | It indicates a word that sounds like its reference or description. It is a vocal imitation of a word. | A beautiful monster |
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