ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

A literary work expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language to evoke emotions.

A set of conflicts that constitute the part of a story's plot leading up to the climax. 

A repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words.

A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

An object or action in a literary work that stands for something beyond itself. 

Language that uses words in an unusual or imaginative manner; figures of speech freely occur.

You cannot have the rainbow without the rain (cannot achieve success without hard work).

The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. 

The dictionary meaning of a word. 

The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as.

The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. 

A statement that you are proving to be true to your audience, also known as your thesis. 

A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.

The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a piece of work.

The introductory part of the essay that grabs the reader’s attention.

The time and place of a literary work that establishes its context. 

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

A note of explanation or your comments added to a text or diagram (the gist).

A phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. 

The unified structure of events in a a story; events are in order as they happen.