Vocab
A characterizing mark or trait
What is Criterion?
The author's or narrator's attitude towards the audience, the subject, or characters
What is Tone?
A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected
What is a Rhetorical question?
Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
What is Repetition?
A statement that minimizes the significance of something or says less than it means
What is an Understatement?
To alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive
What is Vacillate?
The emotion that the reader feels while reading about the subject
What is Mood?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is an Alliteration?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
What is Anaphora?
Example: "I have a dream" speech- Martin Luther King
The combination of two words of opposite meaning for dramatic, comedic, or provocative effect like "Back to the Future"
What is an Oxymoron?
To think about carefully
What is Ponder?
A comparison using “like” or “as”
What is Simile?
A brief reference to a famous person or event
What is an Allusion?
Repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
What is Epistrophe?
Central idea of a work of literature; moral, lesson, message of a story
What is Theme?
To gather or collect
What is Garner?
A comparison without using like or as
What is Metaphore?
An obvious and deliberate exaggeration (to emphasize something or for humorous purposes)
What is a Hyperbole?
Successive words, phrases, clauses, expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure
What is Parallelism?
Example: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong
A character that is both round and dynamic... they have internal conflicts and change over the course of a piece of literature
What is a Complex Character?
(Another term is Dynamic Character)
To examine or inspect closely and thoroughly
What is Scrutinize?
The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
What is Personification?
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Whst is a Euphemism?
Putting two contrasting elements together that are so unlike that the effect is surprising, witty, or even startling
What is Juxtaposition?
A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end
Static character