Vocab #3 Flashcards
Imagery
Words they create a picture in the readers mind. Usually, this involves the five senses. Authors often use imagery in conjugation with metaphors, similes, figures of speech to convey info about characters
Invective
And emotionally violent, verbal pronunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. Imperative sentences.
Verbal Irony
When you say something and then something else, or the opposite. With a bitter tone = sarcasm
Dramatic irony
When the audience of a drama, play, movie knows something that the characters do not and would be surprised to find out.
Situational Irony
Found in the plot – example: Johnny spent two hours planning how to sneak into a movie. When he finally got in, he had missed the movie.
Juxtaposition
Placing things side-by-side for the purpose of comparison: often used to make a point
Metonymy
Substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it
Mood
The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice. Syntax is also important as word order, sentence length, and strength and complexity also affect he seemed and therefore mood
Motif
Standard theme, element, or dramatic situation that recurs in various works
Onomatopoeia
Figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sound of words
Oxymoron
A rhetorical antithesis – I. E. “Wise fool” : apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox
Paradox
A seemingly contradictory statement which is actually true. An idea which embeds a contradiction
Parallelism
Also known as a parallel construction. Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other or repeats patterns twice or more. Repetition of structure not ideas
Natural order of a sentence
Subject + verb +object/complement
Ex: Pineapples grow on Maui.
Split order of a sentence
Object/complement +subject + verb
Ex: On Maui pineapples grow
