Vocab Flashcards
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds within close proximity, usually in consecutive words with the same sentence or line
Anthropomorphism
For animals are inanimate objects are portrayed in a story as people, such as by walking, talking, or being given arms, legs, and/or facial features.
Blank Verse
Non-rhyming poetry, usually written in iambic pentameter.
Creative license
Exaggeration or alliteration of objective facts or reality for the purpose of enhancing meaning in a fictional contest.
Dialogue
Where characters speak to one another; may often be used to substitute for exposition.
Dramatic Irony
Where the audience or near is aware of something important, of which the characters in the story are not aware.
Exposition
We’re an offering around the story in order to explain something, usually to provide important background information.
Figurative Language
Any use of language where the intended meeting differs from actual literal meaning from the words themselves. There are many techniques which can write me be called figurative language including metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, verbal irony and oxymoron.
Foreshadowing
Play future events in a story or crafts the outcome are suggested by the author before they happen. Foreshadow we can take many forms and be accomplished in many ways for the varying degrees and subtlety. However it’s outcome is deliberately and explicitly revealed early in a story such as information does not constitute foreshadowing
Hyperbole
A description which exaggerates.
Iambic pentameter
Poetry written each one containing 10 syllables, and five repetitions of two syllable patterns wherein the pronunciation emphasis is on the second syllable.
Imagery
Language which describe something in detail, using words for substitute for and create sensory simulation, including visual imagery and sound imagery. Also refers to specific recurring types of images such as food imagery and nature imagery.
Irony
Current event occurs which is on expected and which is in a absurd or mocking opposition to what is expected or appropriate.
Metaphor
Interact relationships where one thing or idea that substitutes for another.
Onomatopoeia
Or sounds are spelled out as words; or, when was describing sounds actually sound like the sounds they describe.
Oxymoron
A contradiction in terms.
Paradox
For a situation is created which cannot possibly exist, because different elements of it cancel each other out.
Parallelism
You so similar or identical language structures events or ideas in different parts of text.
Personification (1)
We’re inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human self-awareness; where human thoughts actions and perceptions are directly attributed to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
Personification (2)
Where an abstract concept, such as particular human behavior or a force of nature, is represented as a person.
Repitition
Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated several times, to emphasize a particular idea.
Simile
An indirect relationship where one thing or idea is described as being similar to another. Usually contain “as” or “like” but not always.