List 3 Flashcards
DEFINITION: a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
Exposition
DEFINITION: a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation. See more.
Description
DEFINITION: a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.
Flashback
DEFINITION: Fluency is defined as the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.
Fluency
DEFINITION: an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future.
Foreshadowing
DEFINITION: visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work.
Imagery
DEFINITION: the action of explaining the meaning of something.
Interpretation
DEFINITION: the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Irony
DEFINITION: relating to or denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (as in Latin and other inflected languages) used for the subject of a verb.
Nominative
DEFINITION: of, relating to, or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns used as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition.
Objective
DEFINITION: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
“a short story in prose”
Prose
DEFINITION: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
“I’m writing to voice my opinion on an issue of great importance”
Opinion