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142 terms to "know for rest of life" is what my teacher describes
Term | Definition |
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Abstract | Thought, feeling, or idea |
Scene | Single time and single place in a play; a division within an act |
Fiction | Stories made-up from the imagination |
Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in poetry |
Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
Clause | Group of words containing a subject AND a verb |
Dramatic Irony | Contradiction between what the audience knows and the characters know |
Exposition | Introduction of character, setting and plot |
Fact | Verifiable and true |
Literal Language | Language of trade, of a group |
Hubris | Ancient Greek sin of pride |
Lyric poem | Short, song-like poem of great emotion- usually a single event |
Mood | Reader's Response to a work of literature |
Motivation | Reasons a character behaves the way she or he does |
Myth | Made-up story to explain a phenomenon of nature |
Novel | A fiction book of long, narrative prose |
Onomatopoeia | Figure of speech in which sound equals meaning |
Oxymoron | Bringing together two contradictory terms e.g., a wise fool |
Resolution/Conclusion | Winding down of plot after the climax |
Rhyme Scheme | Pattern of rhymes at the end of poetic lines |
Situational Irony | Outcome very different than what is expected |
Thesis | Statement put forth by a writer to be proved |
1st Person Narrator | "I" point of view: limited |
2nd Person Narrator | "You" Point of view: limited |
Omniscient Narrator | An all-knowing point of view |
Concrete | Perceived by one or more senses |
Act | Major division of a play |
Genre | A division of literature |
Antagonist | Character in conflict with the protagonist |
Soliloquy | Character is center stage alone and expresses thoughts and feelings |
Autobiography | Non-fiction work written by an author about himself or herself |
Avert | Turn away |
Ballad | Poem that is based in folklore, tells a story and has a refrain |
Biography | Non-fiction work about a person's life |
Climax | Point of no return in a work of fiction; moment of greatest intensity in conflict |
Comic Relief | Inclusion of a witty character or funny scene in a serious work |
Dialogue | Conversation between two or more people in a written or spoken work |
Dynamic Character | Character who changes; may grow or deteriorate |
Epic | Long, narrative poem about a hero, often culturally grounded or based |
Epic Simile | Simile running several lines in length |
Epilogue | Story after the story |
Essay | An "attempt" to write a formal opinion |
Etymology | Study of the origins of words |
External Conflict | Struggle caused by a force outside the character- war, nature |
Internal Conflict | Conflict within a character- jealousy, fear |
Opinion | View or judgment not necessarily based on fact or knowledge |
Falling action | Series of events after the climax and ending in the resolution |
Figurative language | Language not meant to be taken literally |
Foot | Smallest unit of meter; contains at least one strong beat |
Foreshadowing | Looking forward in the text |
Glossary | A dictionary of special terms in a book |
Haiku | Concise Japanese poetry of seventeen syllables |
Hyperbole | An exaggeration |
Iambic | A short/long foot |
Index | Alphabetical list of contents with page numbers at the back of a book |
Irony | An unexpected twist of events or words |
Metaphor | Figurative language that is a direct comparison |
Tone | Author's attitude about his or her work |
Ode | Poem that elevates a common object |
Parts of speech (8 parts) | Verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection |
Personification | Giving human characteristics inanimate objects |
Phrase | Group of words with a subject OR a verb |
Plot | Linear sequence of events in a story |
Prologue | Story before a story |
Rising action (complication) | series of events that lead up to the climax |
Root | Smallest unit of meaning in a word |
Run-on | Sentence without end- stopped punctuation |
Simile | Comparison using like or as |
Stanza | Paragraph of poetry |
Static Character | Character who stays the same |
stereotype | Fixed image placed upon a group |
suffix | An affix added to the end of a word- beauti-FUL |
Syllable | Unit of pronunciation with a single vowel sound |
Symbol | Something that represents something else |
Synonym | Word that means the same |
Table of Contents | List of major parts in which they appear in a book |
3rd Person Narrator | Limited point of view using he or she |
Drama | A play acted out on stage, on television or on the radio |
Poetry | Genre of literature written inverse form |
Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds |
Allusion | Reference in a literary work to mythology, the Bible, or other historical point |
Anachronism | Out of the appropriate time |
Protagonist | Main character in a work of fiction |
Antonym | A word that means the opposite |
Aside | Remark not intended for others |
Attribute (trait) | Characteristic that makes a person distinctive |
Couplet | Two rhyming lines, often at the end of a sonnet |
Characterization | Creating a person, object, or animal to populate a story |
Connotation | Emotional content of words |
Denotation | Literal meaning of words |
Diction | Author's choice of words |
Verisimilitude | Creation of a believable word in fiction |
Elegy | A poem of mourning or contemplation (think deeply) |
Enjambment | One line of poetry runs into the next line |
Epiphany | Moment of sudden insight |
Flashback | Looking backward in the text |
Foil | Character who provides contrast to other characters, often the protagonist |
Free verse | Poetry of uneven rhyme, line length and meter |
Homonym | Word that sounds the same but means something different |
Imagery | Words that appeal to any or all of the senses |
I Medias Res | Story begins "...in the middle of things..." |
Inciting Incident | Plot element at the beginning of a story that heats up the action |
Inference | A conclusion made based on text |
Jargon | Language of trade, of a group |
Memoir | Historical account or biography written from personal Knowledge |
Meter | Rhythmic cadence of poetry |
Motif | Recurring piece of theme |
Narrative Poem | Poem that tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end |
Paradox | An apparent contradiction with a truth- parting is such a sweet sorrow |
Pentameter | Five feet per line |
Point of view | Angle of vision of the narrator |
Prose | Language written in ordinary form without metrical structure |
Quatrain | Four line stanza |
Refrain | Repetitive stanza or chorus |
Rhythm | Regular rise and fall of language |
Sonnet | A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter |
Synesthesia | Description of a sense using another sense |
Tercet | Three line stanza |
Verbal Irony | Writer or speaker says one thing and means something completely different |
Verse | |
Homonym | Word that sounds the same but means something different |
Imagery | Words that appeal to any or all of the senses |
I Medias Res | Story begins "...in the middle of things..." |
Inciting Incident | Plot element at the beginning of a story that heats up the action |
Inference | A conclusion made based on text |
Jargon | Language of trade, of a group |
Memoir | Historical account or biography written from personal Knowledge |
Meter | Rhythmic cadence of poetry |
Motif | Recurring piece of theme |
Narrative Poem | Poem that tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end |
Paradox | An apparent contradiction with a truth- parting is such a sweet sorrow |
Pentameter | Five feet per line |
Point of view | Angle of vision of the narrator |
Prose | Language written in ordinary form without metrical structure |
Quatrain | Four line stanza |
Refrain | Repetitive stanza or chorus |
Rhythm | Regular rise and fall of language |
Sonnet | A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter |
Synesthesia | Description of a sense using another sense |
Tercet | Three line stanza |
Verbal Irony | Writer or speaker says one thing and means something completely different |
Verse | Single line of poetry |