Week 1 Vocab
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- tragedy
- something sad happens
- alliteration
- repetition of first consonant sound
- noun
- person, place, thing, or idea
- verb
- shows action or state of being
- adjective
- word that describes a noun or pronoun
- adverb
- a word that modifies adjectives, adverb, or verb
- conjunction
- word that connects 2 words or 2 groups of words
- preposition
- shows relationship between 2 things
- interjection
- words for excitement or emotion
- biography
- author writes about someone else
- comedy
- something writen intended to make you lajgh
- drama
- a play, meant to be acted out
- fantasy
- could not actually happen
- fiction
- fake, made up
- historical fiction
- based on history, still not true
- mystery
- an unknown that needs to be solved
- non-fiction
- something that's true
- romance
- a love story
- satire
- comedy that attempts to show you wrong in something by making sarcastic fun of it
- science-fiction
- story that's made up, takes things to future or a level that could happen
- allegory
- (extended metaphor) something's that a symbol for something else
- assonance
- repetition of any vowel sound
- dialogue
- conversation between 2 people
- epiphany
- moment of awakening for character.. when they realize something very important
- internal rhyme
- rhyme inside sentence / or line of poetry
- metaphor
- symbolic comparison w/out like or as
- monologue
- one person talking
- onamatopoeia
- word that sounds like its meaning (bang, crash, buzz, zoom, zip, ding)
- personification
- giving any nonhuman thing human qualities.. cars and computers a lot
- iambic pentameter
- pattern of 5 syllables (unstressed, stressed) u/u/u/u/ .. 10 syllable line, 5 stressed & 5 unstressed
- pun
- play on words, usually involves meaning and sound
- autobiography
- author writes about him/herself
- simile
- any comparison using like or as
- slant rhyme
- oblique rhyme, or approximate rhyme.. word that almost rhymes, fast-track, bat-can't.. used a lot in rap
- sililoquy
- monologue in which you discover a character's most inner thoughts
- introduction
- characters & setting introduced, fino out conflict
- rising action
- builds events & actions that lead to climax
- climax
- turning point of the story
- falling action
- smaller conflicts resolved
- resolution
- most commonly called the "denouement" = unraveling, untying, unknotting.. end of story
- plot
- storyline