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| Connotative meaning | An idea or feeling a word gives the reader. |
| Denotative meaning | The dictionary definition of a word. |
| Context | The words that’s around other words an impact their meaning or the setting in which something occurs. |
| Figurative language | Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal meeting. |
| Annotate | Making useful notes or definitions of words as you read. Helps you with comprehension. |
| Genre | Type or category in which a literary work belongs. Example: fiction, drama, or poetry |
| Prediction | Using clues to make an educated guess about what will happen in the story next. |
| Structure (poem) | Writing that uses lines and stanzas. |
| Evidence | Facts, reasons, data, or opinions to support a claim. |
| Inference | A logical guess based on evidence and reasoning. |
| Audience | Who the author is writing for or speaking to. |
| Authors purpose | To entertain, inform, persuade etc. |
| Thesis | The main idea of an essay to be proved or explained. |
| Appeals | Ethos, pathos, or logos. Using credibility, emotions, or logic to create an argument. |
| Counterargument | An argument that opposes your claim. The other side of the issue. |
| Situational irony | The opposite of what was expected to happens. |
| Plot | Used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of the story. Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. |
| Satire | Using humor to make a statement about a bigger social issue. |
| Soliloquy | A monologue that expresses one’s personal thoughts and feelings during a play. |
| Aside | When characters of a play step out of their role and talk straight to the audience. |
| Archetype | Very typical example of a certain person or thing. Example: hero or mother figure |
| End rhyme | A rhyme that occurs with words that end lines of poetry, creating rhyme scheme. |
| Internal rhyme | A rhyme that happens within a line of poetry. |
| Characterization | Using a characters actions and speech to decide how to describe them. |
| Anecdote | A short and interesting story, or amusing event, used to support an argument or make a point. |
| Dilemma | A situation in which a difficult choice Hass to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones. |
| Line | Basic structural component of a poem. Literally, a row of words that ends somewhere. |
| affect | Have an effect on, make a difference to. |
| Chronological | Present information in sequence or in the order which it happens. |
| Claim | What the author believes or wants to prove to his or her audience. |
| Quote | Words or phrases that are taken from someone else and put into quotation marks within an article to help make the writer’s argument. |
| Theme | The message the author is trying to say. |
| Diction | The words the author chooses to use. |
| Mood | The overall atmosphere someone has While reading |
| Shift | Happens when speakers or writers change their style or tone any piece of writing. |
| Tone | The feelings of the writer toward the subject. (Word choice) |
| Point of View | The perspective from which the story is told from. |
| Simile | Compares to things using the words “like” or “as.” |
| Metaphor | Compares to things without using the words like or as. A direct comparison. |
| Motif | An idea or image that occurs repeatedly within a piece of writing. |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration. Example: I am so hungry I could eat a cow. |
| Personification | Brings a nonliving thing to life giving a human characteristics or emotions. |
| Exaggeration | Making overstatements in order to create a dramatic effect. |
| Clarity (revision) | Making a sentence or piece of writing easy for the reader to understand. |
| Revision | Moving or changing the ideas of an essay around. Moving sentences to different places within a paragraph. |
| Imagery | Language that uses the five senses site, smell, taste, sound, and touch. |
| Dramatic irony | The audience knows something that the character does not during a play. |
| Verbal irony | When someone says the opposite of what they actually mean. |
| Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself. |
| Foreshadow | To know or indicate before hand like a clue about what will happen later in the story |
| Alliteration | The repetition of a word at the beginning of a series of words or the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words. Example: Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. |
| Monologue | A long uninterrupted speech given by a character in a play |
| Rhyme scheme | The pattern of end rhyme using the alphabet. |
| Protagonist | The main character in a story. |
| Antagonist | What or who is causing problems for the main character. The opposing force. |
| Climax | The turning point of the story. |
| Internal conflict | A problem or struggle within the mind of the character. |
| External conflict | A problem or struggle with another person, society, environment, or nature. |
| Flashback | A conversation, episode, or events that happen before the beginning of the story. |
| Allusion | A reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work. |
| Symbol | A person, place, activity or event that stands for something more than itself. |
| Explicit | Something clearly pointed out by the author. Yes |
| Implicit | Some thing that is hinted at or suggested by the author. |
| 3rd person omniscient | All knowing. Reader Knows what more than one character is thinking. Uses pronouns such as he, she, they, or names. |
| 1st person | Story is told by the narrator who is actually part of the story. Using pronouns I me we etc. |
| 3rd person limited | Story Told by someone outside the action. Only know what one character thinks feels etc. uses pronoun such as he/she they. |
| Rising action | Events that more the plot along adding complications or expanding the conflict |
| Falling action | Occurs after the climax of the story |
| Dialogue | Conversation between two characters. Uses quotation marks. “” |
| Understatement | The presentation of something being smaller or less important than it actually is. |
| Oxymoron | Phrase consisting of 2 words that are opposites. Example: living dead |
| Exposition | The background information of the story such as the setting or who the characters are. |
