25) Rhyme-The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them.
26) Rhythm-A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patterns.
27) Setting-The time and place of a story, a poem, or a play.
28) Short Story-A fictional prose narrative that is about five to twenty book pages long.
29) Simile-A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than or resembles.
30) Speaker- The voice talking to us in a poem.
31) Stanza-In a poem, a group of lines that form a unit.
32) Suspense-The anxious curiosity the reader feels about which will happen next in the story.
33) Symbol-A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well.
34) Tall Tale-An exaggerated, fanciful story that gets "taller and taller," or more and more far-fetched, the more it is told and retold.
35)Theme-A truth about life revealed in a work of literature.
36)Tone-The attitude a writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Huge Vocabulary Test on Friday! Are you ready?
1) Flashback-A scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event.
2) Folk Tale-A story with no known author, originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth.
3) Foreshadowing-The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.
4) Free Verse-Poetry that is "free" of a regular meter and rhyme scheme.
5) Imagery-Language that appeals to the senses--sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
6) Irony-A contrast between what is expected and what really happens.
7) Legend-A story, usually based on some historical fact, that has been handed down from one generation to the next.
8) Limerick-A humorous five-line verse that has a regular meter and the rhyme scheme (aabba).
9) Main Idea-The most important idea expressed in a piece of writing.
10) Metaphor-A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing.
11) Mood-The overall emotion created by a work of literature.
12) Myth-A story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods/superheroes.
13) Narration-The kind of writing that relates a series of connected events to tell "what happened."
14) Nonfiction-Prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts.
15) Novel-A long, fictional story that is usually more than one hundred pages in length.
16) Onomatopoeia- The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
17) Oral Tradition- A collection of folk tales, songs, and poems that have been passed on orally from generation to generation.
18) Paraphrase-A restatement of a written work in which the meaning is expressed in other words.
19) Personification-A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality
is talked about as if it were human or alive.
20) Plot-The series of related events that make up a story.
21) Poetry-A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures or speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination.
22) Point-of-View-The vantage point from which the story is told.
23) Prose-Any writing that is not poetry.
24) Refrain- A repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines in a poem or song or even in a speech.
*Continued on the next post!!!
2) Folk Tale-A story with no known author, originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth.
3) Foreshadowing-The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.
4) Free Verse-Poetry that is "free" of a regular meter and rhyme scheme.
5) Imagery-Language that appeals to the senses--sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
6) Irony-A contrast between what is expected and what really happens.
7) Legend-A story, usually based on some historical fact, that has been handed down from one generation to the next.
8) Limerick-A humorous five-line verse that has a regular meter and the rhyme scheme (aabba).
9) Main Idea-The most important idea expressed in a piece of writing.
10) Metaphor-A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing.
11) Mood-The overall emotion created by a work of literature.
12) Myth-A story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods/superheroes.
13) Narration-The kind of writing that relates a series of connected events to tell "what happened."
14) Nonfiction-Prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts.
15) Novel-A long, fictional story that is usually more than one hundred pages in length.
16) Onomatopoeia- The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
17) Oral Tradition- A collection of folk tales, songs, and poems that have been passed on orally from generation to generation.
18) Paraphrase-A restatement of a written work in which the meaning is expressed in other words.
19) Personification-A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality
is talked about as if it were human or alive.
20) Plot-The series of related events that make up a story.
21) Poetry-A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures or speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination.
22) Point-of-View-The vantage point from which the story is told.
23) Prose-Any writing that is not poetry.
24) Refrain- A repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines in a poem or song or even in a speech.
*Continued on the next post!!!
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