exam flash cards
Mood
A storie’s atmosphere or the feeling it evokes
Connotation
All the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their denotations (dictionary definition)
Diction
A writer’s or speaker’s choices of word. Atyle .
Colloquial
Conversational
Pompous
Arrogant
Simile
Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as “Like”, “As”, “Resembles”, Or “Than”
Metaphor
Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing, without the use of words “Like”, “As”, “Resembles”, Or “Than”
Allusion
Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, of pop culture.
Anecdote
Very, very brief story, usually told to make a point.
Personification
Kind of metaphor in which a non human thing or quality is talked about as us if it were human
Alliteration
Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds usually at the beginnings of words that are close together in a poem.
Consonance
Special type of alliteration in the consonants of words are repeated but the vowels are different.,
Assonance
Repetition iof similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds. Especially close words In a poem.
Irony
Contrast between expectation and reality, between what is said and what really is,
Verbal irony
A writer or speaker says one thing but actually means something completely different.
Situational irony
When there is a contrast in between what would seem appropriate and what really happens.
Dramatic irony
When the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know.
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or audience.
Name some examples of tone
Sarcastic, endearing, cautious, humurous, critical
Foreshadowing
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot
Oxymoron
a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
Paradox
Statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth.
Juxtaposition
A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions etc. are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts
Ambiguity
An element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways .
