vocab
Mood
an emotional state of mind or what you are feeling
irony
Occurs when events or words are the opposite of what is expected, creating a sense of surprise, humor, or deeper meaning in literature rhetoric and everyday situations.
allusion
an implied or indirect reference especially in literature.
motif
trees or bells
denotation
Juliet to look up the word rose in the dictionary.
Paradox
a complete statement or scenario that seems self-contradictory but reveals a thought provoking truth upon further examination
puns
a humorous play on words.
oxymoron
paradox, paradoxism, and antimony
extended metaphor
a version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.
alliteration
the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together.
theme
the core underlying idea or message that the writer wants to communicate to the reader
symbol
something that stands for something else.
implied metaphor
a type of metaphor that compares two things that are not alike without actually mentioning one of those things.
connotation
the feelings and ideas that people may connect with that word.
onomatopoeia
a word that sounds like the noise it describes
simile
a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words like or as.
personification
The sun kissed me while I was clicking a picture.
foreshadowing
a character that mentions offhandedly that bad things always happen to them in autumn, then the observant reader will be alert when the leaves in the story begin to fall.
analogy
Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get
assonance
the effect created when two syllables in words that are close together have the same vowel sound but different consonants.
metaphor
a figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things typically by stating that one thing is another.
flashbacks
when a person relives a traumatic memory.
Diction
correctness, clearness, or effectiveness
characterization
the act of characterizing
hyperbole
I am so hungry I could eat all the food here.