A contrast between what is real and what is expected
Irony
100
Written or spoken material designed to bring about a change or to damage a cause through emotionally charaged words, name calling, etc.
Propoganda
100
Main idea or message of a story, poem, novel, or play
theme
100
Informal diction or the use of vocabulary considered inconsistent with the preferred formal wording
Slang
100
Tools that help readers preview and understand nonfiction
text features
200
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses
Imagery
200
The expressive qualities that distinguish an author's work, including word choice, sentence structure, figures of speech
style
200
If you hear this line in an advertisement..."Use this cologne and you will become a chick magnet!" it is an example of
Propoganda
200
Repetition of consonant sounds; buckets of big blue berries
Alliteration
200
Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor
Hyperbole
300
Language of a trade, profession, or group
Jargon
300
Figure of speech that uses like or as to compare seemingly unlike things
Similie
300
any person, animal, place, object, or event that exists on a literal and figurative level
Symbolism
300
An author's use of clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the story
Foreshadowing
300
Struggle between opposing forces in a story
Conflict
400
Figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human characteristics
Personification
400
Suggested or implied meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition
Connotation
400
Variation of language spoken by a group of people
Dialect
400
Figure of speech that makes a comparision between two seemingly unlike things without the use of special language
Metaphor
500
Literal or dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
500
A word or phrase that immitates or suggests the sound of what it describes
Onomatopiea
500
"We saw a cavern yawning above the water"...is an example of
Personification
500
Titles, subtitles, boxed information, bold print, captions, bullets, headings, italics, hi-lighted information, footnotes and endnotes are all examples of