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Gr9 WOW 75 Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| moral | a lesson that a story teaches |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings, such as buzz or gargle |
| voice | a writer's (or speaker's) distinctive use of language to express ideas as well as his or her persona |
| paraphrase | the restating of information in one's own words |
| satire | a form of comedy that uses humor, irony, or exaggeration to expose and criticize issues in society or people's weaknesses |
| caricature | to exaggerate or imitate certain characteristic to create a comic or distorted idea of a person |
| delusion | persistent false belief |
| persuasion | the art of swaying others' feelings, beliefs, or actions |
| parody | a humorous imitation of another writer's work |
| hyperbole | the literary technique of extreme exaggeration for emphasis, often used for comic effect |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together |
| pun | a funny play on words. Puns are created by using words with the same sounds but different meanings |
| propaganda | any form of communication that is so distorted that it conveys false or misleading information to advance a specific belief or cause |
| simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| flashback | an interruption in the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past |
| synthesize | means to take individual pieces of information and combine them in order to gain a better understanding of a subject |
| abode | a home |
| debonair | charming |
| dilapidated | ruined |
| vigor | active healthy |
| askew | when something is off center |
| deplete | to use up or to reduce to a very small amount |
| enhancement | improves or adds to the quality or function of something |
| paradox | a person, thing, or situation that is contradictory |
| inference | a conclusion about ideas or information not directly stated |
| subversive | intended to weaken or destroy |
| duped | tricked |
| imperceptibly | ever so slightly |
| dramatic irony | a literary device that authors use to create humor and tension in a story. The audience knows more about what is happening than at least one character |
| revise | to rework/reorganize a piece of writing to improve its logic and flow |
| irony | a literary device that plays on readers' expectations by portraying events in a way that is actually different from reality |
| allusion | a reference that a writer makes to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art or another literary work |
| commentary | the explanations and interpretations an author writes to support an opinion or an analysis |
| symbol | anything (object, animal, event, person, or place) that represents itself but also stands for something else on a figurative level |
| imagery | creates word pictures by using details that appeal to one or more of the five senses |
| figurative language | the use of words to describe one thing in terms of another |
| tone | a writer's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience |
| theme | a general statement about life |
| character foil | a character who contrasts with another character that leads to some insight |
| exposition | the author introduces the characters, describes the setting, and begins to reveal the conflict |
| resolution | the ending in which the main conflict is finally resolved |
| diction | the way in which a writer makes a word choices |
| syntax | the way a writer arranges words and grammatical elements to create phrases, clauses, and sentences |
| pernicious | intending to cause harm |
| sycophant | someone who uses flattery to try and get what he/she wants from an authority |
| ubiquitous | appearing everywhere |
| non sequitur | a statement that does not logically follow a conversation flow |
| diatribe | a forceful and bitter verbal attack |
| slipshod | showing a lack of care or thought |
| found poem | consist of words, phrases, and lines that come directly from a different piece of text |
| lede | the opening of an article, or the sentence that tells what happened |
| nut graf | follows the lede and is a statement that tells why readers should care about what happened |
| stage direction | notes that the playwright includes in the script about how characters should behave and move across the stage |
| motive | a character or person's reason for behaving in a certain way |
| aside | something spoken in a play by a character that is not meant to be heard by the other characters |
| sonnet | a 14-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter and following a strict pattern |
| English sonnets | contain three quatrains (four lines of rhyme) and one couplet (two lines that rhyme) |
| monologues | are long speeches in a play, or other kind of performance, delivered by one actor |
| dramaturge | a member of an acting company who helps the director and actors make informed decisions about the performance by researching information relevant to the play |
| block | a scene means to create the plan for how actors will position themselves on the stage in relation to one another, the audience, and the objects on the stage |
| soliloquy | a long speech delivered by an actor alone on the stage, usually representing his or her internal thoughts |
| subtext | the underlying or implied meaning in dialogue or the implied relationship between characters in a book, movie, play, or film. It is not explicitly stated |
| strategize | to plan the actions you will take to complete a task |
| poetic structure | the organization of words, lines, and images, as well as ideas, in a poem |
| rhyming couplet | a pair of lines that rhyme, have the same rhythm (for meter), and are of similar length |
| ode | a lyric poem expressing the feelings or thoughts of a speaker, often celebrating a person, an event, or a thing |
| nefarious | wicked or criminal |
| precursor | a person or thing that comes before another or similar kind |
| impregnable | unable to be captured or broken into |
| demure | shy or modest |
| jingoistic | overly patriotic |
| implacable | unable to be soothed |
| ellipsis | a row of three dots ( ... ) that indicates something has been omitted from within a quoted passage |
| brackets | ( [ ] ) are most often used to clarify the meaning of quoted material |
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