Honors English Finals

Simile

Used to compare one thing to another using “like” or “as” in the sentence

Metaphor

Phrase describing something as not reality. Describes something as something it’s not. For example “Love

Hyperbole

Exaggerating “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse”

Personification

Gives human traits to none human things “the sun talks to me”

Onomatopoeia

Words that sound like what it means “buzz” “hiss” “sizzle”

Allusion

Brief reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance

“He’s a real Romeo with the ladies”

Dramatic irony

When the audience/reader knows something that the characters don’t

Foreshadowing

Used to hunt at events yet to come and helps keep readers guessing

Irony

Where a person says one thing but mean the opposite

“I’m fine” but your body language and tone says other wise

Motif

Recurring element, theme, or idea in a literary way.

Oxymoron

Places two opposite words together

“The food was awfully good”

Food can’t be awful and good

Paradox

A statement that contradicts itself

“My weakness is my strength”

Similar to a oxymoron but the words aren’t together

Parallelism

Repeating the same syntactical structures (I don’t understand this one)

Pun

A joke about words that sound alike but they have different meanings “a boiled egg every morning is hard to beat”

Or it’s a play on words which sound the same used a comic effect. “Have a nice trip? See you next fall”

Satire

Criticizing the subject through humor, exaggerating, irony, sarcasm, etc.

Situational irony

Irony where the opposite of what is expected happens

Tone

The attitude or mood that a is being conveyed by words choice or formatting

Verbal irony

The literal meaning of what someone says is different to the actual meaning

Sonnet

A 14 line poem and a specific rhyme scheme

Rhyming couplet

Two lines that rhyme.

Ex “double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.”

First person

Pronouns “I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, and ours”.

Refers to the speaker or writer

Second person

refers to the perspective of "you" and is indicated by the use of pronouns like "you", "yours", and "yourself"

directly addresses the reader

Third person (thought and feeling known)

Focuses on one character's thoughts and feelings, limiting the reader's insights to that character's experience.

Third person ( no thoughts/ feelings known)

narrative style focuses on observable actions and dialogue, presenting the story in a detached way. The narrator acts as an observer, similar to a camera recording.

Third person ( omniscient) (all knowing)

a narrative technique where an all-knowing narrator dictates the story to the audience. The narrator can reveal anything that has happened, is happening, or will happen.

Diction

Choice of words and style used to convey tone or message

Syntax

Arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language