What is a way of saying one thing and meaning something else in order to create a more forceful or dramatic image?
100
dialogue
What is any conversation within a text?
100
diction
What is a writer’s choice of words, phrases, and figurative language which combines to help create meaning?
100
onomatopoeia
What is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning?
100
opinion
What is a belief or conclusion that is not provable?
200
allusion
What is a reference to a person, place, event, or literary work that the writer expects the reader to recognize?
200
flashback
What is a method used to present past events during current events in order to provide background information?
200
imagery
What is a word or words which appeal to the senses –sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell– and helps to create pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind?
200
paradox
What is a statement which seems to be self-contradictory or absurd yet turns out to make good sense?
200
summary
What is a shortened version of a story that includes a generalized theme and topics?
300
symbol
What is an object used to represent or suggest something else?
300
stereotype
What is an author’s oversimplified treatment of characters so that they are immediately identified with a group?
300
imply
What is to say something indirectly; to hint; to suggest?
300
oxymoron
What is a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined?
300
purpose
What is the reason a character or the author does something?
400
alliteration
What is the repetition of specific sounds within a line of text?
400
foreshadowing
What is the use of hints and suggestions to offer clues to future developments in a work?
400
voice
What is the expression of an author’s personality through his or her writing?
400
analogy
What is a comparison made between two things to show similarities?
400
parable
What is a short story that is designed to teach a truth or lesson?
500
irony
What is a situation or event that expresses a reality different from and or opposite to what is expected?
500
symbolism
What is the use of an object to represent or suggest something else?
500
inference
What is a conclusion based on reasoning rather than on direct statement?
500
idiom
What is an expression that cannot be translated literally?