authorial choices english vocab

Question 1

apostrophe

Answer 1

adress someone who is absent or already dead

Question 2

connotation

Answer 2

undertone

Question 3

denotation

Answer 3

literal or primary meaning of a word

Question 4

idiom

Answer 4

expression

Question 5

colloquialism

Answer 5

ordinary or familiar words or phrases

Question 6

anaphora

Answer 6

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of clauses after another

Question 7

enjambment

Answer 7

the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next

Question 8

juxtaposition

Answer 8

two contrasting things placed right next to each other

Question 9

oxymoron

Answer 9

contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Question 10

repetition

Answer 10

same word or phrase repeatedly

Question 11

personification

Answer 11

giving humanlike qualities to something nonhuman

Question 12

Simile

Answer 12

comparing two things using like or as

Question 13

metaphor

Answer 13

comparing two things without using like or as

Question 14

allegory

Answer 14

work of literature that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

Question 15

allusion

Answer 15

referencing something outside of the work of literature

Question 16

hyperbole

Answer 16

extreme exaggeration

Question 17

symbol

Answer 17

a thing that represents something else

Question 18

synechdoche

Answer 18

part is used to represent the whole

Question 19

metonymy

Answer 19

nickname

Question 20

rhyme scheme

Answer 20

ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines of a poem

Question 21

onomatopoeia

Answer 21

imitating the sound the word is referring to

Question 22

assonance

Answer 22

repetition of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllables enough for them to be told apart

Question 23

consonance

Answer 23

recurrence of similar sounds in close proximity

Question 24

alliteration

Answer 24

beginning a word with the same letter

Question 25

meter

Answer 25

basic rhythmic structure in a line of poetry

Question 26

iambic pentameter

Answer 26

five meters, one unstressed syllable then one long syllable

Question 27

antithesis

Answer 27

contrasting things expressed by parallelism of words that are opposites

Question 28

antimetebole

Answer 28

words in the first half of a sentence are inverted in the second half of the sentence

Question 29

chiasmus

Answer 29

grammatical structures that are repeated in reverse order

Question 30

first person pov

Answer 30

pov is someone in the work

Question 31

third person limited pov

Answer 31

narrator tells the story through a protagonist by using their name

Question 32

third person omniscient

Answer 32

god-like perspective

Question 33

objective pov

Answer 33

unbiased perspective

Question 34

epithet

Answer 34

adjective expressing a quality characteristic of the thing mentioned

Question 35

bildungsroman

Answer 35

novel that displays one’s formative years or spiritual education

Question 36

catharsis

Answer 36

releasing strong or repressed feelings

Question 37

double entendre

Answer 37

word or phrase that is open to two interpretations, one is usually sexual

Question 38

equivocation

Answer 38

ambiguous language to conceal the truth

Question 39

pun

Answer 39

wordplay

Question 40

blank verse

Answer 40

verse without rhyme

Question 41

aside

Answer 41

a character addresses the audience directly for a movement to express a truth, feeling or comment

Question 42

trope

Answer 42

using figurative language for artistic effect

Question 43

syntax

Answer 43

arrangement of words and phrases in a sentence

Question 44

scheme

Answer 44

artful deviation from the ordinary arragement of words

Question 45

internal rhyme

Answer 45

rhyme with a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line of the next

Question 46

slant rhyme

Answer 46

rhyme with words that have similar but not identical sounds

Question 47

induction

Answer 47

leading the reader to the next moment in a work

Question 48

deduction

Answer 48

leading reader away from the overall idea & towards evidence/support

Question 49

plastic theater

Answer 49

use of props, noises and stage directions to convey a parallel with the characters states of mind

Question 50

foil characters

Answer 50

two characters that are opposites

Question 51

epizeuxis

Answer 51

form of repetition in which a word is repeated immediately for emphasis

Question 52

rhetoric

Answer 52

persuasive writing

Question 53

ethos

Answer 53

emotions within a work of literature

Question 54

pathos

Answer 54

persuasion

Question 55

logos

Answer 55

logic

Question 56

exigence

Answer 56

moment that shows rhetoric

Question 57

euphemism

Answer 57

indirect word substituded for a harsh one when referring to something unpleasant

Question 58

zeugma

Answer 58

a word applies to two others in different senses

Question 59

persona

Answer 59

person who is understood to be speaking a particular work

Question 60

artisotelian triangle

Answer 60

outlines ethos, pathos, & logos

Question 61

panel

Answer 61

segment of a comic that combine image & text

Question 62

gutter

Answer 62

space between framed panels

Question 63

splash

Answer 63

panel that takes up the whole page

Question 64

bleed

Answer 64

image that extends beyond the page

Question 65

emnata

Answer 65

symbols outside of the character to convey emotion

Question 66

atmosphere

Answer 66

feeling or sense evoked by an environment or setting