Connotation/Denotation
What is Connotation?
The feeling a word or phrase gives
What is a Simile?
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is Contemporary Fiction?
When the story takes place in the present day.
What is a 1st person narrator?
A character from the story who tells the story from THEIR Point of View.
Rhyme describes words with the same ending sound.
What is Denotation?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is a Metaphor?
A comparison that doesn't use like or as.
What is Historical Fiction?
When the story takes place in the past; uses details about the history of the time.
What does Omniscient mean?
When a character is "all knowing". They know everything about the characters, events, and setting of the story.
Rhythm creates the "beat" of the poem.
What Connotation does the word Kind give?
A positive Connotation.
What is a personification?
The assigning of human qualities to a nonliving thing.
What is Science Fiction?
When the story is about science and technology of the future; may be set in the future or in space.
What is a Limited Narrator?
The narrator focuses on narrating the experiences of ONE character and doesn't know much more than the reader about any other characters.
What is a Meter?
Meter is a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is the Denotation of the word Mathematics?
Mathematics includes the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.
What is Symbolism?
The use of an image or thing to stand for something else.
What is a Fable?
A short story with a moral or lesson.
What is Repetition?
Repetition is the repeating of words or lines in poetry.
What Connotation does the word Bad give?
A negative Connotation.
What is an Allusion?
A reference to another work, such as the Bible.
What is a Myth?
A traditional story from a certain place; may give reasons for how something was created or how it works.
What is Alliteration?
Alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant sound.