Quiz 1 Flashcards
The literal dictionary dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
The personal definition or associated triggered by a word, words that stir up your emotions
Connotation
The attitude expressed by the writer towards the subject
Tone
The person who is speaking in a poem, the voice of the poem
Speaker
The person who is telling the story, the voice of the story
Narrator
The personality or style of the writer that seems to come alive in the words
Voice
This has two meanings, there is a surface and something beyond the surface
Allegory
This is a word meaning a reference to another literary/artistic/historic work
Allusion
Repetition of initial constant sounds
Alliteration
Repetition of internal vowel sounds
Assonance
Repetition of constance sounds at then end of the word
Consonance
When a poem is addressed on an object that is not alive, like the wind, sea or even a word like courage
Apostrophe
An exaggeration in figurative language for effect of something
Hyperbole
Words that sound like sounds, pow, bam, snap
Onomatopoeia
Undermines a certain topic, the opposite of a hyperbole
Understatement
A group of lines that are together in a poem
Stanza
Describes rhythm in a poem, refers to a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable
Meter
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables but commonly ten sounds, five words
Iambic Pentameter
This is a Iambic Pentameter that does not rhyme
Blank verse
Public speaking where someone takes a dramatic pause, a break or pause in speaking
Caesura
A poem about the loss of someone or something
Elegy
This is a two lined poem
Couplet
This is a four lined poem
Quatrain
This is a poem with 6 lines
Sestet
This is a poem with 8 lines
Octave
A brief comment by an actor that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other actors
Aside
Poetry without standardized rhyme meter or structure, its not formless but relies on its own words to determine its best form
Free verse
When one person on stage is talking to him or herself
Soliloquy
The poet or actor in a play speaks through the voice and personality of another person
Dramatic Monologue
This is the perspective from which the narrator speaks to us
Point of View
A poem that tells a story
Narrative Poetry
When the emotion feeling of thoughts of someone is put into a song
Lyrical poetry
Descriptive language that helps us see hear smell taste or feel
Imagery
The environment in which the work takes place
Setting
The overall meaning we derive from the poem story or essay
Theme
The structure of the story, the pattern twists and turns the story takes
Plot
The resolution of the plot in fiction or drama
Denouement
Minor Themes
Motif
The difference between expectation and reality, sarcasm
Verbal Irony
This is when the audience knows more than the character does in a play or movie
Dramatic Irony
This is what is expected to happen but doesn’t, Dying of thirst on an island
Situational irony
Not knowning but the use of a word in the wrong way that makes you look stupid
Malapropism
Comparing two things, a direct comparison
Metaphor
An announced indirect comparison using Like or As
Simile
Giving objects people like features
Personification
Hints and clues of what might happen next in a story or play
Foreshadowing
Possible truths, internal conflict within a certain effect
Paradox
An object or action that represents more than itself
Symbolism
Part of something that stands for a whole, “all hands on deck” “Check out my new wheels”
Synecdoche
One thing that is represented by another and closely associated with
Metonymy
