Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Vocabulary 4
Vocabulary 5
100
When the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
100
A narrative work of fiction or drama in which the elements- characters, setting, plot- work together to teach a moral lesson.
What is allegory?
100
The use of a word or the author's word choice or use of appropriate words to convey a particular meaning.
What is diction?
100
The central message of a work of literature that readers can apply to life (a universal truth or life lesson).
What is theme?
100
Argument based on emotion, logic, or authority of the writer.
What is appeal?
200
The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing.
What is repetition?
200
A figure of speech that compares or equates two seemingly unlike things (an implied comparison).
What is metaphor?
200
Exists when the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what someone expected.
What is situational irony?
200
A form of writing (narration, persuasion, exposition, and description).
What is mode of discourse?
200
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion to make a point or to evoke humor.
What is hyperbole?
300
A figure of speech using "like" or "as" to compare seemingly unlike things (direct comparison).
What is simile?
300
A reflection of the writer's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
300
Any concrete object, person, place, or experience that exists on a literal level but also represents something else, usually something abstract.
What is symbol?
300
A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
A reference in a work of literature to a well-known person, place, event, written work, or work of art.
What is allusion?
400
Literature that exposes to ridicule the vices or follies of people or societies.
What is satire?
400
A metaphor that compares two unlike things in various ways throughout a paragraph, stanza, or selection.
What is extended metaphor?
400
Exists when a person says one thing while meaning another.
What is verbal irony?
400
A situation or statement that seems to be impossible or contradictory but is nevertheless true, literally or figuratively.
What is paradox?
400
A short, pointed statement that expresses a wise or clever observation about human experience.
What is aphorism?
500
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of it describes?
500
Point of view
What is the relationship of the narrator or storyteller to the story?
500
Thesis
What is the author's main idea of a work of nonfiction?
500
Humor
What is the quality of a literary work that makes the characters and their situations seem funny, amusing, or ludicrous?
500
Couplet
What is two consecutive, paired lines of poetry that usually rhyme?
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