Karteikarten
Reading Notes for Maps testing 6-9 grade
Karten in diesem Stapel (56)
- 1antagonistThe person against the protaganist
- 2ProtagonistMain character of story
- 3Epiloguea short piece that wraps up the end of a story.
- 4Legacysomething handed down from one generation to the next
- 5PlotThe story itself
- 6deductive reasomingreasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- 7inductive reasoningreasoning from detailed facts to general principle
- 8red herringSomething to distract from the main issue
- 9idiomexpression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
- 10imagerya noun to describe the way things or ideas seem in your mind or in art or literature
- 11Metaphoran analogy between two things to show how one resembles the other in a direct way
- 12similea figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things using " like" or " as"
- 13Alliterationuse of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
- 14Onomatopoeiausing words that imitate the sound they denote
- 15Personifictionattributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
- 16Memoiran account of the author's personal experiences
- 17AnecdoteA short story
- 18autobiographyA book about the author's life written by the author
- 19biographyA book written about someone's life
- 20ConflictThe problem in the story
- 21DialogueA conversation between two charcters
- 22foreshadowingthe act of providing vague advance indications
- 23hyperboleextravagant exaggeration
- 24IronyWhen the opposite of what is expected happens
- 25Verbal ironyThe use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean.
- 26Dramatic ironyWhen the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character.
- 27Situational ironyThe difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
- 28Oxymorona word or phrase that contradicts itself, usually to create some rhetorical effect.
- 29Point of viewyour personal feelings, political position, and any other particular details about you that make up the way you look at something
- 30Themean underlying topic of a discussion or a recurring idea in an artistic work
- 31Tonethe kind of sound you hear in a musical note, or in a person's voice live or in writing
- 32Connotatviehaving the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit
- 33denotativehaving the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming
- 34genrea kind of literary or artistic work
- 35implictsuggested though not directly expressed
- 36preconceived notionan opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence
- 37satirewitty language used to convey insults or scorn
- 38symbolismthe practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
- 39alluisionpassing reference or indirect mention
- 40caesuraa break or pause in the middle of a verse line
- 41consonancethe repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
- 42coupleta stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
- 43octavea rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
- 44internal rhymea rhyme between words in the same line
- 45sesteta group of six lines of verse
- 46free versepoetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme.
- 47haikua Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables.
- 48homophoneeach of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling
- 49balladA ballad is a song that tells a story, and it can be dramatic, funny, or romantic.
- 50blank verseunrhymed poetry
- 51characterizationthe act of describing essential features
- 52climaxthe highest point of anything
- 53flash backa transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
- 54stanzaparagraph of a poem
- 55quatrainfour lines in a stanza
- 56sonneta verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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