Academic Terms 1
Academic Terms 2
Selection Vocabulary
Text-Based Examples
100
The time and place of a narrative.
What is setting?
100
Vivid description used to convey a visual picture and to appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
100
To wrap something to deaden or prevent sound.
What is muffle?
100
The image of the line, "a sky leaden gray that showed tinges of scarlet and orange on the horizon," is what type of literary device/element?
What is contrast? The color "gray" is contrasted with the colors "scarlet" and "orange".
200
A kind of metaphor that gives non-human objects or abstract ideas human-like characteristics, qualities and traits.
What is personification?
200
A comparison between two different things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
To cover.
What is drape?
200
The lines, "Winter had muted the earth; the muffled stillness was broken only by a traveler's paws," are what types of literary devices/elements?
What is alliteration and personification? Alliteration occurs in the words "muted" and "muffled." Personification occurs in the phrase, "Winter had muted."
300
A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
300
The author's attitude and feelings towards the subject of their writing.
What is tone?
300
To raise to an upright position.
What is rear?
300
The use of the word "ragged" twice in paragraph two is what type of literary device/element?
What is repetition?
400
To compare in order to show unlikeliness or differences, including opposites.
What is contrast?
400
A literary device in which words, sounds and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis.
What is repetition?
400
Torn or worn to rags, tattered.
What is ragged?
400
The lines, "A sturdily built young mouse with quick dark eyes was moving confidently across the snowbound country," is what type of literary device/element?
What is characterization?
500
The various means by which an author describes and develops a character.
What is characterization?
500
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in several consecutive or neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
500
Extremely thin and bony.
What is gaunt?
500
Identify the tone of paragraph three.
What is gloomy?
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