ELA VOCAB II
SYMBOLISM
Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
DICTION
The choice and use of words or phrases in a speech or writing.
ANTITHESIS
Someone or something that is the opposite of someone or something else.
STEREOTYPE
An oversimplified image or idea of a person.
ANALOGY
A comparison between two things.
LIMERICK
A five-line poem that is humorous. Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme, and 3 and 4 rhyme.
SONNET
A fourteen-line poem that rhymes and has 10 syllables per line.
APPOSITIVE
A noun or pronoun that explains another noun or pronoun in the sentence.
COLLOQUIALISM
Words that are informal.
SYNECDOCHE
A figure of speech where part of a something stands for the whole thing.
SCANSION
The act of analyzing a verse to determine its rhythm
ALLEGORY
A story, poem, or picture that can reveal a hidden meaning, like a moral one.
VERSE
Poetry that is written in a rhythm that has rhymes.
METONYMY
A figure of speech that uses an object or thing to represent someone or something else
TONE
The general character or the attitude of a place and others.
FORESHADOW
Hints about a future event.
IDIOM
An expression that doesn’t exactly mean what the words say.
REFLEXIVE PRONOUN
A pronoun referring to the subject of the sentence, clause, or verbal phrase. Usually ends in –self
SUPERLATIVE
Adjectives that describe the highest quality. They compare 3 or more things.
ONOMATOPOEIA
A word that sounds like a sound.
OXYMORON
Words (usually two words) that contradict each other. A figure of speech.
IMAGERY
Using descriptive language to make readers image things.
INTENT
1.) To know the purpose. 2.) Determined to do something
LEGENDS
A story that is traditional and thought as historical, but not proven
FABLES
A short story that teaches morals, where animals are used as characters.