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English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allusion | An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event. |
| Imagery | descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. |
| Connotation | Range of Associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning |
| Author's Purpose | The author's intent either to inform or teach something, to entertain people or to persuade or convince his/her audience to do or not to do something. |
| Analysis | The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another |
| Conflict | Struggle between opposing characters or emotions. |
| Antonym | A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word. |
| Hyperbole | An intentional exaggeration or overstatement for effect |
| Characterization | The method a author uses to reveal and develop characters and their various traits and personalities. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words |
| Dialogue | A Conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work; 9n its most restricted sense, it refers specifically to the speech of characters in a drama |
| Context Clue | Words and phrases in a sentence, paragraph. and/or whole text, which help reason out the meaning of a unfamiliar word. |
| Biography | A Written Account of another person's life |
| Differentiate | Distinguish, tell apart, and recognize differences between 2 or more items. |
| Evaluate | Examine and judge carefully to judge or determine the significance, worth or quality of something to: assess |
| Fact | A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true |
| Figurative Language | Language that can't be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling |
| Foreshadowing | A organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up a explanation of later developments. |
| Genre | A category used to classify literary works usually by form technique or content (horror, adventure) |
| Satire | Literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness |
| Synonym | A word that is similar in meaning to another word. |
| Personification | A object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form |
| Inference | A judgement based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances: Understanding gained by reading between the lines. |
| Irony | Incongruity between the actual result of sequence of events and the expected result. |
| Main Idea | The author's central thought; the chief topic of a text expressed or implied in a world or phrase; the topic sentence of a paragraph |
| Theme | Topic of discussion or work; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work |
| Metaphor | The comparison of 2 unlike things in which like or as aren't used. |
| Mood | The prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices such as dialogue and literary elements such as setting. Its not always what might be expected based on its subject matter. |
| Opinion | A personal view, attitude, or appraisal |
| Narrator | Person, Animal, or thing telling the story or giving a account of something. |
| Point of View | Position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are dipicted |
| Setting | Time and place in which a story unfolds. |
| Simile | Comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as. |
| Plot | The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events. Includes Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and resolution. |
| Summarize | To capture all of the important parts of the text, but express them in a shorter space and as much possible In the reader's words. |
| Symbolism | Device where a object represents an idea |
| Tone | Attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject, or the work itself. |
| Prefix | Group of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning |
| Suffix | Group of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning to a different kind of word, from an adjective to adverb, etc... |
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