Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Figurative Language 2: Redux
Plot
Words!!!
100
A noun: Struck with amazement
What is aghast?
100
Words which represent sounds.
What is onomatopoeia
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
The highest point of the action, where the main conflict is decided
What is climax?
100
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
200
A verb: To arrange in a straight line
What is align?
200
Exaggeration for effect or humor
What is hyperbole?
200
A comparison not using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
The main point of a selection. Also known as central point, main idea, primary theme, any many other related names.
What is central idea?
200
The "feel" of a word, or emotional concepts we attach to a definition
What is connotation?
300
A verb: To imitate with great success
What is emulate?
300
Attributing human characteristics to non-human things
What is personification?
300
A play on words (debatably humorous)
What is a pun?
300
An abbreviated explanation of an entire selection, without editorial or judgment.
What is objective summary?
300
An educated guess based on available information.
What is inference?
400
A verb: To mention indirectly or refer to
What is allude?
400
A question asked for effect, no answer is expected.
What is a rhetorical question?
400
Mode of writing where something stands for more than itself.
What is symbolism?
400
First: Told from within one character's point of view (I, we) Second: Told as if the reader is taking action (You) Third: Told from an outside perspective, can be limited -following a single character's view - or omniscient - able to know the thoughts and motivations of any character. (He, she, they)
What is Point of View?
400
A phrase built of seeming opposites. An apparent contradiction (pretty ugly, small crowd, loose tights, clearly misunderstood, alone together)
What is oxymoron?
500
A Noun: A deceptive, misleading, false notion
What is fallacy?
500
Language meant to evoke the senses
What is imagery?
500
An extended metaphor where a complex concept is compared to something more easily explained. For instance "Life is like..."
What is analogy?
500
A narrator that may be lying to the audience (In TV, How I Met Your Mother. In film, Fight Club, Big Fish, Forrest Gump, The Lone Ranger. In books, Wuthering Heights, The Canterbury Tales, or nearly anything by Chuck Palahniuk)
What is unreliable narrator?
500
The conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
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