Terms I
The essential background information at the beginning of a literary work?
What is exposition?
Word choice to create a specific effect.
What is diction?
When there is a disparity between what is expected and what actually occurs.
What is situational irony?
What is denotation?
The feeling the reader takes away from the piece.
What is mood?
An extended metaphor, where the entire story or poem has a secondary symbolic meaning.
What is Allegory?
When the reader or audience knows something a character does not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
When the speaker says one thing but means the opposite
What is verbal irony?
The emotional meaning of a word; the deeper meaning of a word. An example is house and home, a house is just a building in which you live, when a home is a place where you belong and where your family is.
What is connotation?
The vantage point or perspective from which a literary work is told… first person uses words like "I" and "Me" when third person uses words like "They" and "She."
What is point of view?
A reference to something well-known that exists outside the literary work.
What is Allusion?
A recurring feature of a literary work that is related to the theme
What is Motif?
A technique an author uses to convey to the reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective or to effectively transmit the author’s message to the reader.
What are rhetorical devices?
A figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point and without the expectation of a reply.
What is rhetorical question?
Comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A dramatic device in which a character makes a short speech intended for the audience but not heard by the other characters on stage.
What is aside?
Phrase that consists of two words that are contradictory: “living dead” or “pretty ugly."
What is Oxymoron?
The tone writers use when they are trying to make fun of what they are writing about.
What is Satire?
The manner in which an author develops characters and their personalities.
What is characterization?
Comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds: “Anna’s apples,” “the pond is long gone”
What is assonance?
A summary of a selection that is not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice.
What is objective summary?
A dramatic device in which a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.
What is soliloquy?
Language that represents something that is dissimilar. ( non-literal language )
What is figurative language?
A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
What is a stanza?