english exam
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- conotation
- the feelings and associations that a word suggests
- atmosphere
- overall mood or emotion of a work of literature
- mood
- the overall emotion created by a work of literature
- drama
- a story written to be acted in front of an audience
- rhythm
- musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns
- limerick
- humorous 5 line verse that has a regular meter and the rhyme scheme aabba
- dialect
- a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people
- imagery
- language that appeals to the senses
- motivation
- a breif story of verse that teaches a moral of gives a lesson about about how to get along in life
- fiction
- a prose account that is made up rather than true
- myth
- story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other superhuman beings
- speaker
- the voice talking in a poem
- folktale
- story, with no known author, that originally was passed from one generation to another by word of mouth
- theme
- the idea about life revealed in a work of literature
- hyperbole
- an exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally
- biography
- the story of a real person's life written or told by another person
- nonfiction
- prose writing that deals with real people, places and places without changing any facts
- denotation
- literal, dictionary definition of a word
- autobiography
- story of a real person's life written or told by that person
- refrain
- a group of words repeates at intervals in a poem, song, or speech
- irony
- in general, a contrast between expectation and reality
- tone
- the attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character