vocab list 5 Flashcards
Discordant
Disagreeable in sound
Cacophony
Harsh, discordant sounds in a literary work
Comic relief
A humorous character or scene inserted between tragic events
Deconstruct
To break something into parts in order to understand the meaning of the parts
Epigraph
A quotation at the beginning of a literary composition
Euphony
The presentation of pleasant sounds in a piece of literature
Exclamatory sentence
Sentence that shows excitement
Exposition
Background information presented in words
Flashback
A device that allows the writer to refer to past events
Ibid
The same source as the one above
Monologue
A speech given by one character
Parable
A story that operates on more than one level and teaches a moral
Polysyndeton
The presence of many conjunctions between clauses
Urbane
Refined and often elegant in manner
Voice
The author’s original style
