English Reading Review Flashcards
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- Alliteration
- Repetition of a spoken sound in a sequence of words, usually consonant at beginning
- Allusion
- Reference to something in literature, history, art, or pop culture
- Apostrophe
- Direct address to an absent person/non-human entity
- Assonance
- Repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds, not necessarily at beginning
- Connotation
- Emotional association with a word
- Consonance
- Repitition of a consanant sound in a sequence, not necessarily at the beginning of a word
- Diction
- Kinds of words, phrases, sentence structures, & figurative language that make up literature
- Hyperbole
- Dilliberate exaggeration, overstatement
- Image
- Vivid description of visible objects/scenes, sensual object
- Juxtaposition
- State/position of being placed close/side-by-side to permit contrast/comparison
- Metaphor
- A direct comparison not using like or as; Saying something is something else
- Metonymy
- Substitution of a word for another closely associated word
- Onomatopoeia
- Expression of a sound in words
- Oxymoron
- Combonation of opposites, union of contradictory terms
- Personification
- Portraying a non-living object as having human-like qualities
- Rhyme
- Repetition of words with the same sound; Internal: within a line; End: at end of line; Eye: Words look like they'd rhyme
- Rhyme Scheme
- Coding of end rhymes in a poem using progressive letters
- Rhythm
- Recognizable pattern in beats/stresses
- Simile
- A comparison between 2 things using "like" or "as"
- Speaker
- Person talking in a poem, not always the poet
- Stanza
- Grouping of verse; Lines in a poem, usually set of by a space
- Symbol
- An object that represents more than just it's literal meaning like ideas & expressions that are closely related
- Synecdoche
- When one usues a part to represent the whole & vice versa
- Tone
- Speaker's attitude toward his/her subject (external)
- Theme
- Message the author intends to communicate by telling the story (not the main idea)
- Mood
- Feeling a reader perceive's from the story, can be different for each person (internal)
- Satire
- Use of irony & sarcasm to mock the stupidity of individuals/ridicule social evils/weaknesses
- Irony
- When what is expected is different from the actual result (Situational- different outcome, Verbal- sarcasm, Dramatic- audience informed, character not)
- Foreshadowing
- When a writer hints at future events of the story (clues)
- Figurative Language
- Using language to represent things in terms of something else (non-literal, e.g. simile, metaphor, personification)
- Conflict
- Struggle between 2 opposing forces in a work of fiction (Person vs self, person, nature, fate/supernatural, society, machine)
- Point of View
- Perspective from which the story is told (1-I, 2-You, 3-He/She)
- Plot
- Sequence of related events in a story (Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution/Denouement)
- Characters
- People in the story who are involved in the plot in some way
- Setting
- Time & place where a literary work takes place
- Tips for Reading Poetry
- Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude/tone, Shift in tone/speaker, Theme, Title