Comprehension
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
What is imagery?
Normally used to talk about the past, as well as changes the tense of the words spoken such as 'say', 'tell', 'ask'
What is an indirect narration?
A comparison of two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
What is an analogy?
a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.
What is a symbol?
Be a warning or indication of (a future event).
What is a foreshadow?
The presentation of something as being smaller, worse or less important than it actually is.
What is an understatement?
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech and/or writing.
What is diction?
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is an allegory?
A decorative design, or more commonly in music, a short succession of notes producing a single impression; a brief melodic or rhythmic formula out of which longer passages are developed.
What is a motif?
A scene that takes place before a story begins. It interrupts the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events of a characters events.
What is a flashback?
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
What is a paradox?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
What is syntax?
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic.
What is a simile?
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is satire?
An exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is dialect?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is a connotation?
The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
What is repetition?
A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of.
What is an antithesis?
A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.
What is colloquialism?
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
What is a denotation?
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
What is a soliloquy?