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English vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of initial (beginning) sounds in a group of words. Ex: "Wicked Witch of the West" |
| allusion | A reference to a person, place, thing , or event outside the work which the author expects the reader or the audience yo recognize. Ex: references to Gone With the wind in the outsiders |
| analogy | a partial likeness between two things that are compared. |
| antagonist | any force in a story that is in conflict with a protagonist. An antagonist may be another person (the anti hero) an aspect of the physical or social environment, or a destructive element in the protagonists own nature |
| biography | the life story of a person written by someone else |
| characterization | how you describe a character and the personality and traits of a person or people. |
| cliffhanger | a chapter ending that increases suspense by leaving an exciting event up in the air |
| autobiography | a person’s life story written by that person |
| climax | the major turning point in a work where the main character’s fortunes change dramatically; the point of highest emotional intensity or suspense. |
| conflict | the struggle between opposing forces or a problem that a character faces in a piece of literature. |
| connotation | What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning, usually depending upon the context of the sentence. |
| denotation | the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word. |
| dialogue | talk or conversation among characters |
| dialect | how a character pronounces their words, which indicates what region they are from. |
| diction | is the way in which a character says something; in particular, their grammar, word choice, and the way they express themselves. Can be used to indicate someone’s educational background or community affiliation. |
| dynamic character | a character who grows, changes, or matures as a result of the experiences she/he has undergone in the story; the opposite of a static character |
| exposition | writing that explains or informs the reader about the characters, setting, or story details ; usually found at the beginning of the plot |
| fiction | a genre of stories which is invented and imaginative and not a record of things as they actually happened in history. |
| flashback | an interruption of the action in a story when a character recalls or reflects on events that happened earlier in time |
| flat character | This character has only one or two character traits; the opposite of a round character |
| foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues in a story to suggest action that is to come |
| genre | the type of literary work, such as fiction, non-fiction, historical fiction, biography, poetry, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, etc. |
| hyperbole | he use of exaggeration for effect |
| idiom | A set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words |
| imagery | Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our five senses. |
| irony | The opposite of what is expected Ex: The firehouse burnt down. The vegetarian died due to choking on a carrot. |
| metaphor | a comparison like a simile, but without the use of “like” or “as” Ex: “Mr. Burns, the miser, has a heart of stone.” Mr. Burns heart is being compared to stone. |
| mood | the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. The mood is an emotional response created in the reader. Ex: apprehensive, jolly, gloomy, etc. (Mood is not to be confused with tone.) |
| narrator | the teller of the story |
| onnomotopia | when the sound of a word suggests its meaning Ex: “buzz” or “ bang” |
| paradox | a seemingly contradictory statement that, on closer examination, may be true. |
| personification | a poetic device that gives human characteristics to a non-human Ex: “The rain danced on the pavement.” |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story. |
| point of view | the angle of vision from which a story is told. The four basic points of view are as follows: |
| omniscent point of view | The author tells the story, using the third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do. |
| Limited omniscient point of view | The author tells the story, using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears. |
| First person point of view | The story is told by one of its characters, using the first person. |
| Objective (or Dramatic) point of view | The author tells the story, using the third person, but is limited to reporting what the characters say or do; the author does not interpret their behavior or tell us their private thoughts or feelings. |
| protanogist | the central character in a story; usually the hero |
| pun | a humorous use of a word to suggest another that sounds the same. Ex: To write with a broken pencil is pointless. |
| resolution | That portion of a plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its mysteries. |
| round character | Any of the persons involved in a story or play who has many character traits; opposite of flat character. |
| rhyme | The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words. Ex: old-cold, vane-reign, court-report, order-recorder |
| satire | a literary work that ridicules, or makes fun of, aspects of human behavior, often in the hope that this behavior will be corrected |
| setting | the time and place in which the events of a story take place |
| simile | a poetic device that compares two essentially unlike things, finding a similarity between them, and using “like” or “as” (or than) to make the comparison. Ex: “fight like a tiger” or “cool as a cucumber” |
| stanza | the division of a poem into groups of lines, as in a song. Similar to a paragraph in prose. |
| static character | a character who undergoes little or no change from the beginning to the end of the story |
| subplot | additional, less complicated storylines that exist and develop along side of the main storyline |
| suspense | that quality in a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about what is to come next (and anxious to keep reading in order to find out) |
| symbol/ symbolism | a person, place, or thing which has meaning in itself, but which also represents or stands for a big idea |
| theme | the author’s message, the main idea, the lesson or moral of the story that is universal in nature(not specific to only this particular book) |
| tone | A writer's attitude towards the subject, audience, and self. |
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abbie banks