Terms Flashcards
Summarize: to retell the main events in your own words
Objective: non influenced by personal feelings, it represents facts.
Adjectives: Words that describe nouns and pronouns.
Theme: central idea or message.
Direct: the theme
Implied: the reader infers theme from event in the story.
Genre: category of work of literature is classified: the major genres are fiction nonfiction poetry and drama.
Drama: a form of literature meant to be performed by actors in front of an audience.
Stage instructions: instructions on how the drama is performed in front of the audience ( in parentheses )
Cast of characters: a list of all characters in the drama the cast appears at the beginning.
Dialogue: the words the characters say
Dialect: a form of language that is spoken particularly by people and in certain areas.
Mood: the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Tone: expresses the writers attitude toward his/her subject.
Metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.
Simile: comparison of two things using like or as.
Symbol: person place thing or activity that represents something beyond itself
Personification: a human trait given to an animal or thing like the breeze made the trees
Sonnet: a poem that has a final structure containing 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme and meter
Shakespearean sonnet: about love, ababcdcdefefgg
Couplet: in a sonnet with a strong impact
Stanza: a group of 2 or more lines that form a unit in a poem
Line: is a unit of language in which poem or play is divided
Rhyme scheme: a patter of end rhymes in a poem
End rhyme: words that rhyme at the ends of lines in poetry
:internal rhyme: rhyme within a single line of poetry
:rhythm: a patter of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Meter: regular patter of stressed/unstressed syllables
Figurative language: words that are used in a fake way to express ideas that aren’t true
Imagery: words or phrases that appeal to a readers 5 senses
Extended metaphor: a figure of speech that compares two unlike things at some length
Idiom: an expression that has a meaning different from the words.
Repetition: a sound word line or inference is repeated for emphasis
Paradox: a statement that has seemingly contradictory ideas
Oxymoron: I can resist anything but temptation, jumbo shrimp
Terms
Adjectives: Words that describe nouns and pronouns.
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Theme
Central idea or message
Direct theme
Same as above
Implied: the reader infers theme from event in the story.
.
Genre: category of work of literature is classified: the major genres are fiction nonfiction poetry and drama
.
Stage instructions: instructions on how the drama is performed in front of the audience ( in parentheses
.
Drama: a form of literature meant to be performed by actors in front of an audience
.
Dialogue: the words the characters say
Dialect: a form of language that is spoken particularly by people and in certain areas.
.
Mood: the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Tone: expresses the writers attitude toward his/her subject.
Metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.
.
Simile: comparison of two things using like or as.
Symbol: person place thing or activity that represents something beyond itself
Personification: a human trait given to an animal or thing like the
.
Personification: a human trait given to an animal or thing like the breeze made the trees
Sonnet: a poem that has a final structure containing 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme and meter
.
Shakespearean sonnet: about love, ababcdcdefefgg
Couplet: in a sonnet with a strong impact
Stanza: a group of 2 or more lines that form a unit in a poem
.
Line: is a unit of language in which poem or play is divided
Rhyme scheme: a patter of end rhymes in a poem
End rhyme: words that rhyme at the ends of lines in poetry
.
Figurative language: words that are used in a fake way to express ideas that aren’t true
Imagery: words or phrases that appeal to a readers 5 senses
.
