| A | B |
|---|
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader |
| soliloquy | speech a character gives alone on stage |
| oxymoron | phrase or expression that is seemingly contradictory |
| Aside | a short speech heard by audience but not characters in the play |
| iambic pentameter | a meter in poetry consisting of five unrhymed lines-stressed and unstressed syllables |
| tragedy | a drama ending in catastrophe |
| simile | making comparisons between two subjects using like or as |
| metaphor | one thing is spoken of as if it were something else |
| personification | a non-human subject is given human traits |
| alliteration | repetition of first sound (Peter Piper picked) - repeated at least two times |
| Assonance | rhyming or harmony of vowels |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words or sounds to imitate sound effects |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables |
| monologue | a speech by one character in a play, story, or poem |
| soliloquy | a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |
| sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
| FICKLE | CHANGEABLE |
| VERSE | THE OPPOSITE OF PROSE; POETRY |
| PARADOX | A STATEMENT THAT SEEMS TO BE CONTRADICTORY BUT ACTUALLY PRESENTS A TRUTH |
| THEY HAVE EARS BUT HEAR NOT. | PARADOX |
| ALLUSION | A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING OUTSIDE THE WORK; USUALLY MYTHICAL, BIBLICAL OR HISTORICAL |
| FOIL | A CHARACTER WHO HELPS EMPHASIZE THE TRAITS OF ANOTHER CHARACTER THROUGH CONTRAST |
| SYMPATHETIC | COMPREHENDING THE NEEDS AND FEELINGS OF OTHERS |
| FACETIOUS | LACKING SERIOUS INTENT; NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY |
| OBJECTIVE | NOT INFLUENCED BY PERSONAL FEELINGS; BASED ON FACTS |
| CONTEMPTUOUS | SHOWING OR EXPRESSING CONTEMPT OR DISDAIN |
| PORTENTOUS | FOREBODING |
| ADVERSARY | A FOE, AN ENEMY |
| CHASTE | DECENT; PURE |
| CONNOTATION | THE FEELINGS ASSOCIATED WITH A WORD |
| DENOTATION | DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF A WORD |
| PARALLELISM | REPETITION OF GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE |
| PROSE | OPPOSITE OF POETRY; WRITING IN SENTENCES |
| IMAGERY | WORD THAT PAIN A PICTURE AND RECREATE SENSORY EXPERIENCE |
| ADVERSARY | HIS __ CHASED HIM DOWN THE STREET. |
| CHASTE | ROSALINE HAS SWORN TO LIVE __ AND PURE. |
| CONTEMPTUOUS | THE __ AND SCORNFUL CHILD WAS PUNISHED. |
| OBJECTIVE | ZEUS COULD NOT MAKE AN __ AND IMPARTIAL DECISION ABOUT THE GOLDEN APPLE. |
| PARADOX | LOVE IS GENTLE AND ROUGH. |
| OXYMORON | SERIOUS VANITY; COLD FIRE |
| PORTENTOUS | THE THUNDER WAS A __ SIGN THAT SOMETHING BAD WOULD HAPPEN. |
| PORTENTOUS | FOREBODING; FORESHADOWING |
