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English 2 Terms
Mrs.Stricklands Class English Terms
Term | Definition | |
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Point of view | Perspective | |
1st Point of view | I, We, Me, Us | |
3rd Point of view Limited | Tells about 1/2 characters thoughts, feelings, actions | |
3rd Point of view Objective | Narrator reveals what is seen and heard | |
3rd point of view Omniscient | Character is god like | |
Irony | What reader expects contrasts what really happens | |
Dramatic irony | When audience knows something the characters don't know | |
Situational Irony | What reader expects versus what actually happens | |
Verbal Irony | Sarcasm | |
Credible | Trusted Source | |
Unreliable Narrator | Biased and lies | |
Voice | Writers use of Language | |
Persona | A mask of voice | |
Surprise ending | Resolves story in unexpected way | |
Theme | Central Idea | |
Rhyme | Repetition of Sounds | |
Rhythm | Base | |
Meter Length of a line in poetry | Length of a line in poetry | |
Alliteration | Repetition of individual letter or sound | |
Onomatopoeia | Words that mimic their sound | |
Repetition | Repeating of a word or phase | |
Refrain | Repetition of 1 or more phrases or lines | |
Simile | Comparison between 2 things using like, as, so, or than | |
Metaphor | Implied comparison between 2 unrelated things | |
Hyperbole | Exaggeration | |
Personification | Giving Human Characteristics to inanimate objects | |
Symbol | A word or image that symbolizes something | |
Free verse | Poetry with no rules | |
Assonance | Repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same | |
Consonance | A common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds |