Vocab! Flashcards
(20 cards)
Appeal to numbers, facts or statistics
Attempts to persuade the reader by showing how many people think something is true
Resolution
Conflict is resolved
Rising Action
Events leading up to the climax
Satire
A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.
Sentence Variety
Various sentence structures (simple, complex, compound, compound‐complex), styles, and lengths that can enhance the rhythm of or add emphasis to a piece of text..
Sequence of Steps
A literary organizational form that presents the order in which tasks are to be performed.
Setting
The time and place in which a story unfolds.
Simile
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Soliloquy
A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage.
Sound devices
Elements of literature that emphasize sound (e.g., assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia).
Speaker
The voice that talks to the reader
Stage Direction
A playwright’s written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move and behave in a play
Structure of a Poem
The rhyming pattern, meter, grammar, and imagery used by a poet to convey meaning
Style
The author’s choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice, and tone in order to communicate with the reader.
Suffix
Groups of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning or change it into a different kind of word, from an adjective to an adverb, etc.
Summarize
To capture all of the most important parts of the original text (paragraph, story, poem), but express them in a much shorter space, and as much as possible in the reader’s own words.
Symbolism
A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
Synonym
A word that is similar in meaning to another word (e.g., sorrow, grief, sadness).
Syntax
The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Circular Argument
states a conclusion as part of the proof of the argument
