Figurative Language Quiz English 12
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- Figurative Language Quiz English 12
- Figurative Language Quiz English 12
- Alliteration
- the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words.
- Assonance
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the repetition of a vowel sound within words.
EX: Make the Grade - Connotation
- the suggested meaning of a word or phrase.
- Denotation
- the dictionary meaning of a word.
- Act
- major division of a play
- Allegory
- a tale in verse or prose in which the characters represent abstract ideas or moral qualities.
- Apostrophe:
- when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.
- Allusion
- a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious
- Consonance
- the repetition of consonant sounds
- Diction
- A writer’s choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning.
- Antagonist
- the bad guy
- Anti-hero
- a hero who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero.
- Aside
- a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters onstage at the time
- Dialect
- type of informational diction.
- Dialogue
- conversation among two or more characters
- Foreshadowing
- the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature
- Genre
- kind or type.
- Hyperbole
- exaggeration or overstatement.
- Metaphor
- comparison between two thing
- Metonymy
- an implied comarision
- Motif
- a recurring pattern in a story
- Personification
- giving human qualities to animals or objects.
- Paradox
- reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory.
- Onomatopoeia
- a word that imitates the sound it represents.
- inversion
- reversal of word order for effect
- mood
- feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates
- Parallelism
- repetition of words or phrases or clauses which are similar in structure or meaning
- Satire
- to make fun of
- Tone
- the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character
- Theme
- the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express.
- Synecdoche
- when one uses a part to represent the whole.
- Simile
- the comparison of two unlike things using like or as
- Setting
- is determining Time and Place in fiction.