vocabulary test Flashcards
(21 cards)
personification
Gives human characteristics to non-human things, such as animals, ideas or objects.
soliloquy
Character in a play or other dramatic work expresses their thoughts and feelings to the audience while alone on stage.
flashback
Interrupts the chronological order of a story to show a scene from the past.
irony
A situation where there is a contrast between reality and expectations.
Iambic pentameter
Rhythmic pattern in poetry and verse drama that uses a specific arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables to create a line of verse.
monologue
Long speech given by a character in a literary work, movie, or theatrical production.
foreshadowing
Authors use to hint at what will happen later in the story.
alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
diction
Words an author chooses to create a specific tone or impact in their writing.
paraphrase
Restatement of another person’s ideas or thoughts in your own words.
autobiography
Literary genre that is a first-person account of a person’s life written by that person.
epic
A long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary hero.
metaphor
A figure of speech where one thing is directly compared to another.
inversion
Reverses the normal order of words in a sentence to achieve a specific effect.
satire
Way of writing about a flaw in society by inflating it.
farce
A type of comedy in the literary genre.
aside
Character in a work of fiction that directly addresses the audience to express a feeling, reveal a truth, or comment on the story.
dramatic irony
Occurs when the audience or reader has more info about a situation than the characters do.
couplet
It consists of TWO lines of verse that form a single idea or statement.
simile
Figure of speech that compares two things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.
