Words, Words, Words
A fancy word for what's in your particular vocabulary. We can have a _____ for science, math, engineering, history, art, etc.
Using one thing to stand for another thing to elicit deeper meaning
Symbol
Comparing without using like or as
Metaphor
How society operates; background the reader needs on its function
Social Context
A standard person or character that occurs again and again
Archetype
The word choices you make as a writer
Diction
Using the five senses to create a vivid experience
Imagery
Comparing with like or as
Simile
A contradiction
Paradox
Round
How someone talks particular to their region
Dialect
The way the poem is arranged in terms of beats and tempo
Rhythm
A figurative use of language in which what is thought to happen doesn't or the opposite of what is said is meant
Irony
A contrast of terms that are opposites; i.e. jumbo shrimp
Oxymoron
When a character does not change, they are said to be this.
Static
Ordinary, everyday talk and language (how ironic whoever invented this word) ---- mid 18th century Latin; it actually simply comes from the word "conversation"
Colloquial
The atmosphere and feeling evoked from the text
Mood
A comparison without using like or as that has multiple parts and pieces
Extended Metaphor
Beginning a story "in the middle"
In-media-res
We can infer character traits through the following method
STEAL
Continuing a word of a sentence into the next line/stanza
Enjambment
A work within a work; a deeper and extended meaning from a story- like "Terrible Things" w/ the animals that stood for victims of the Holocaust
Allegory
The repetition of sounds
Alliteration
treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral
Marginalization
Sometimes characters are attached to this, which is a repetitive symbol in the text
Motif