Duplicate of 100 word terms

Abrupt interjections that further explain a story or character with background information and memories.

Ballad, haiku, limerick, sonnet, villanelle

A play on words where a humorous effect is available, along with more than one meaning.

Poems that do not adhere to specific rules or format and does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa,

The use of mild, comforting, or evasive expression

Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Romeo and Juliet

The repetition of initial consonant sounds that take place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line

The Author uses influences how we interpret the information

Repetition of same grammatical pattern in listed items:

A useful literary device. Dialogue reveals character relationships, their converging or competing goals.

Happy and fulfilling for the audience

The time, place, or social situation in which a story takes place.

Example: Red Delicious apples are sweet, while Granny Smiths are tart and acidic.

Quote or paraphrase from an original source to support claim made by academic or professional writing.

The cultural knowledge and information that has been passed down through speech from one generation to the next.

A man vs. some element of nature

the description of something as having much less of a particular quality than it does.

A saying where the literal meaning differs from the figurative meaning.

Unrhymed iambic pentameter.

In favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Logical appeal- induction or deduction pattern of facts, statistics, evidence

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

It suggests what is to come through imagery, language, and/or symbolism.

the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other.

Foundational Documents, Political Argument, Propaganda and Persuasion, American Revolution

The elements of drama are the ingredients that give the work its meaning, shape, and character.

Example:Cell Phones should not be allowed in the classroom.

A style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.

A lot of times, the inner monologue is used to display a man versus self conflict

To misread tone is to misread the intention of the text.

gives readers more private feelings and dilemmas.

Have a musical rhythm, and their topics often explore romantic feelings or other strong emotions.

A musical rhythm, and their topics often explore romantic feelings or other strong emotions.

EXAMPLES: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Literature marked by man’s spiritual connection to nature and the importance of individuality.

tells stories through verse.

occurs when the speaker says one thing but the way in which it is said is contrary to the actual meaning.

modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique.

The art of making someone or something look ridiculous

A long, extended speech spoken at people, not with people.

Two seemingly opposite meaning are used together intentionally for effect.

A type of idea,symbol,pattern,or character-type in a story

Poems that format to specific rules and have a set number of lines, rhymes, and/or metrical arrangements per line.

A form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.

An emotional setting that surrounds the reader

one that is written by someone who is an expert in their discipline and is free of errors and bias.

Punctuated with beginning and ending quotation marks and tags.

Insertions into quotations, parenthetical from the piece’s author.

arguments that may sound convincing, but are based on faulty logic and are therefore invalid.

the art of using exaggeration to convey an amplified personal response

Marked by intertextuality, reinvention of tropes, new genres, and technology

The reader with details and inner thoughts/feelings of any and every significant character.

The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant,

the works of fiction that are written in the form of letters or other documents.

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

a literary device that occurs any time the author uses details to teach the reader about a character.

man vs. other men or society and man vs. nature

what we see, what we hear, what we smell, what we taste, and what we touch.

Attrition page at the end of an essay or other academic paper for references utilized in the piece.

The story by also including the thoughts and feelings of a few, select characters.

A central, unifying idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.

A type of rhyming where words sound similar but do not rhyme exactly.

For extended pauses in a sentence. May replace appositive phrases, semi colons, colons.

occurs when the anticipated outcome is not what happens.

A statement that seemingly contradicts itself.

Example : The alarm clock yelled, my dog scorned, and the wind howled.

A narrative style that tries to capture a character’s thought process in a realistic way.

Facts from a story

As readers/watchers, we want something to happen, usually something bad, in a story.

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

A conflict between a human and another human or a group of humans based on societal values, laws, or beliefs.

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

MOTHER: a woman in relation to her child or children.

This more subtle method of characterization relies on the reader to decide meaning.

the structure of an argument where there is more than one side to a debate.

the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line.

Occurs when the anticipated outcome is not what happens

a question that a study or research project aims to answer.

Example: His neighbor becomes angry and he in turn tells his friends

Using an image or thing to stand or represent something else.

A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century,

Information in a passage is expressed as a problem or dilemma

Using character, credibility and ethics to persuade

Commenting on your own thinking, an insertion

I feared what might greet me as I entered the kitchen.”