Summer Vocab

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Question 4

Ambiguity

Answer 4

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.

Question 5

Analogy

Answer 5

a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

Question 7

Colloquial

Answer 7

(of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Question 9

Denotation

Answer 9

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

Question 10

Diction

Answer 10

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

Question 11

Extended Metaphor

Answer 11

refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem

Question 12

Figurative Language

Answer 12

figurative language uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful.

Question 13

Figure of Speech

Answer 13

a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.

Question 14

Genre

Answer 14

a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Question 15

Imagery

Answer 15

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

Question 16

Inference/Infer

Answer 16

an idea or conclusion that’s drawn from evidence and reasoning.

Question 17

Verbal Irony

Answer 17

occurs when a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying.

Question 18

Situational Irony

Answer 18

occurs when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you’d expect the result to be.

Question 19

Dramatic Irony

Answer 19

occurs when the audience knows a key piece of information that a character in a play, movie or novel does not.

Question 20

Personification

Answer 20

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 21

Point of View

Answer 21

the position from which something or someone is observed.

Question 22

Prose

Answer 22

written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

Question 23

Repetition

Answer 23

the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

Question 24

Satire

Answer 24

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

Question 25

Semantics

Answer 25

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.

Question 26

Symbolism

Answer 26

an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.

Question 27

Theme

Answer 27

the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

Question 28

Thesis

Answer 28

a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved

Question 29

Tone

Answer 29

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

Question 30

Transition

Answer 30

he process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.

Question 31

Voice

Answer 31

the individual writing style of an author, a combination of idiotypical usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works)