Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

Intersectionality

Answer 1

the cross section of all of the attributes of a person’s life

Question 2

rite of passage

Answer 2

a major event in someone’s life

Question 3

anthology

Answer 3

a collection of short pieces of writing

Question 4

direct characterization

Answer 4

directly describing a character

Question 5

indirect characterization

Answer 5

making the reader make assumptions about the reader that aren’t directly stated

Question 6

duality

Answer 6

two parts of something

Question 7

simile

Answer 7

comparing two things with like or as

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

a figure of speech where a thing or action is compared while not being literally linked

Question 9

imagery

Answer 9

vividly describing something

Question 10

first person point of view

Answer 10

someone talking about there own life experiences

Question 11

third person

Answer 11

someone talking about someone else’s life experiences

Question 12

symbolism

Answer 12

the use of symbols to represent ideas or quantities

Question 13

genre

Answer 13

a category of artistic works

Question 14

flash fiction

Answer 14

a piece of fiction 1000 words or less

Question 15

theme

Answer 15

the subject

Question 16

personification

Answer 16

giving human quality to non-human things

Question 17

omniscient

Answer 17

all-knowing

Question 18

collective noun

Answer 18

a singular noun used to describe a group(group, crowd, crew)

Question 19

anaphora

Answer 19

the repeated use of the words at the beginning of a sentence(ex. collective nouns for humans in the wild)

Question 20

vignette

Answer 20

a brief account

Question 21

alliteration

Answer 21

the repeated consonants at the beginning of a word