Summer Vocab

Question 1

Hyperbole

Answer 1

An over exaggeration or overemphasis of a situation.

Question 2

Exposition

Answer 2

A avenue to introduce background information about characters, settings, events, etc. An exposition may be presented by use of monologue, dialogues, in-universe media (newspapers, journal, letters, etc.), a protagonist’s thoughts or narrator’s explanation of past events. One mode of rhetorical communication, the other three being argumentation, and description.

Question 3

Dramatic License

Answer 3

When an author alters, makes up a story to make the story they’re telling more interesting.

Question 4

Dynamic Character

Answer 4

A Character who evolves/devolves from the beginning of text to the end due to conflicts that the character encountered on his/her journey.

Question 5

Characterization

Answer 5

The way an author describes, establishes the personality of characters in text

Question 6

Meter

Answer 6

A stressed an in stressed syllabic pattern in a verse or poem. Contains a sequence of several feet, where each foot has a number of syllables such as stressed/unstressed, gives an overall rhythmic patterns in a line of verse, which a foot cannot describe.
o If music be the food of love, play on;
o Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
o The appetite may sicken, and so die.
o That strain again! it had a dying fall:

Question 7

Denouement

Answer 7

The resolution of an issue of a plot in fiction.

Question 8

Implied Metaphor

Answer 8

A comparison between two or more things that is implicit, or hinted at
o What are you doing in this neck of the woods?
o She barked commands at her child. (Comparing her to a dog).
o John tucked his tail and ran. (Comparing John to a scared dog).
o It’s rainin’ men (hallelujah)- Best metaphor of all time

Question 9

Situational

Answer 9

When the opposite of what’s expected happens.

Question 10

Anti-hero

Answer 10

A prominent character in a play or book that has characteristics opposite to that of a conventional hero.

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

repetition of an initial consonant sound, used to create emphasis or establish a rhythm in the text

Question 12

Scansion

Answer 12

to divide the poetry or a poetic form into feet by pointing out different syllables based on their lengths.
o The metrical pattern of this stanza is trochaic octameter in which eight stressed syllables are followed by eight unstressed syllables. Each line uses eight pairs of syllables. Total there are sixteen syllables. The rhyme scheme of this stanza is ABCBB

Question 13

Rhetoric

Answer 13

A technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form.

Question 14

Apostrophe

Answer 14

Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or nonexistent character.

Question 15

Mixed Metaphor

Answer 15

A succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons.
o Wake up and smell the coffee on the wall
o “Green behind the ears”-Obama
o We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it
o Robbing Peter to pay piper
o Read the writing on the wall
o He’s a loose cannon who always goes off the deep end

Question 16

Tone

Answer 16

An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.

Question 17

Foil

Answer 17

A character whose qualities contrast other character’s qualities, the objective being to highlight the traits of the other character.
o Ex: Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Lightning McQueen and Matter

Question 18

Archetype

Answer 18

A typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature.
Ex: An archetype, also known as universal symbol, may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting. Many literary critics believe archetypes, which have a common and recurring representation in a particular human culture or entire human race, shape the structure and function of a literary work.

Question 19

Authorial Intrusion

Answer 19

When the author steps away from his/her text and speaks directly to the reader.
o Ex: China Anne McClain did this in one episode of A.N.T. farm with Olive. (Don’t judge me for this example)

Question 20

Synecdoche

Answer 20

A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

Question 21

Allusion

Answer 21

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance

Question 22

Dramatic Irony

Answer 22

When the audience knows something in the story that the characters don’t

Question 23

Motif

Answer 23

An idea or object that repeats itself throughout a literary piece.

In a literary work, a motif can be seen as an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme. Motif and theme are linked in a literary work but there is a difference between them. In a literary piece, a motif is a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme while a theme is a central idea or message. are images, ideas, sounds or words that help to explain the central idea of a literary work i.e. theme.

Question 24

Juxtaposition

Answer 24

Two or more ideas, places, characters, etc., that contrasts each other.

Question 25

Further explanation of Scynecdoche

Answer 25

o Synecdoche may also use larger groups to refer to smaller groups or vice versa. It may also call a thing by the name of the material it is made of or it may refer to a thing in a container or packing by the name of that container or packing.
o Synecdoche refers to the whole of a thing by the name of any one of its parts. For example, calling a car “wheels” is a synecdoche because a part of a car “wheels” stands for the whole car.
o The phrase “gray beard” refers to an old man.
o The word “sails” refers to a whole ship.

Question 26

Doppelganger

Answer 26

A person who looks so familiar that the resemblance is uncanny. Someone who favors someone else a lot.

Question 27

Verbal Irony

Answer 27

When the opposite if what’s said is what’s meant

Question 28

Extended Metaphor

Answer 28

Sustain the comparison for several lines throughout the entire article.

Question 29

Direct Metaphor

Answer 29

To explicitly state that one thing is another.

o (My most frequently used metaphor that I came up with) You are such a doll.

Question 30

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 30

The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry. In other words, it is the structure the end words of a verse or line that a poet needs to create when writing a poem.

Question 31

Metaphor

Answer 31

Figure of speech that implies a hidden comparison to two things that are unrelated but share common characteristics. (Comparison of two things that doesn’t just like or as).

Question 32

Motivation

Answer 32

: a reason behind a character’s specific action or behavior. This type of behavior is characterized by the character’s own consent and willingness to do something.

o There are two types of motivation: one is intrinsic, while the other one is extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation is linked to personal pleasure, enjoyment and interest, while extrinsic motivation is linked to numerous other possibilities. Extrinsic motivation comes from some physical reward such as money, power, or lust.

Question 33

Theses are examples of:
The Garden - Symbolizes love and fertility
The Island - Symbolizes isolation
Wilderness - Danger
Fire - Knowledge, rebirth

Friendly Beast - Assists the hero
The Hero - Main character who may fulfill a task or bring justice
The Initiates - Need training to become heroes
Martyr - Willing to die for a cause
Mentors - Train and counsel the initiates
The Outcast - Exiled for a crime and becomes a wanderer

Answer 33

Archetype

Question 34

Voice

Answer 34

the form or a format through which narrators tell their stories. It’s the author’s individual style or point of view.

Question 35

o “All the world’s stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” -Shakespeare

This is an example of

Answer 35

An extended metaphor

Question 36

Metonymy

Answer 36

A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. The word we use to describe another thing is closely linked to that particular thing, but is not a part of it. For example, “Crown” which means power or authority is a metonymy.

o Ex: The Oval Office was busy in work. (“The Oval Office” is a metonymy as it stands for people at work in the office.)
o Let me give you a hand. (Hand means help.)

Question 37

What is this an ex. of?

o Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
o Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
o While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
o As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
o “tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
o Only this, and nothing more.”

Answer 37

Scansion

Question 38

Static Character

Answer 38

A character that does not evolve/devolve, but undergoes little or no change. The character does not develop or grow.

Question 39

Imagery

Answer 39

Diction, phrases that creates a mental image for the reader

Question 40

Meter

Answer 40

the pattern of beats in a poem.
So in a line like: “but soft, what light through yonder window breaks.”
The beat is iambic pentameter. Which means five iambs. Which means a pattern of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. ( buh BUH) soooooo. The meter is iamb.

Question 41

Scansion

Answer 41

fancy shmancy word for figuring out the meter. Rarely used..but those AP like to use it on their test.

Question 42

Metonymy

Answer 42

–referring to something by an item closely related to it.

Referring to nursing students as scrubs because scrubs are the clothes they wear.