English - Vocabulary test (9).

Mood

A particular emotion or psychological state often created by positive or negative descriptive words.

Motif

The repeated use of an image, that reminds the audience about something important through communicating con stand reminders of it.

Narrative perspective

Who or what is the focus of the narrative.

Ominous

An indication something bad is going to happen.

Omission

To leave out important information when talking about something or someone,, in order to give a misleading impression of that thing or person.

Pathetic fallacy

The use of nature to reflect events and feelings, and actions of humans within them.

Pathos

Emotion feeling created in persuasive language.

Plosive

The sound made by saying a letter such as d or p, which are known to be plosive because of how they are pronounced.

Purpose

The reason a writer has for writing a text (the intention a writer has as how the audience responds to a text).

Retrospect

To think about something in the past, given with a different opinion that was originally formed.

Register

The use of tone, volume, pitch, inflection, fluency, vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure that give the correct degree of formally / informally appropriation for the specific context / audience. There’s a clear distinction between formal and informal.

Rhetorical question

A question that does not requiere an answer and invites the audience to think about it.

Satire

Criticising something / someone through humorously mocking and making fun of them; highlighting their failures.

Sociopath

Someone who behaves in an extremely antisocial way or has extremely antisocial attitudes.

Soliloquy

The thoughts of a character spoken by them alone, and which are not heard by another character (it provides insight from the audience into what a character is really thinking or feeling).

Suspense

A feeling of nervousness or excitement about what might happen.

Syntax

How words are arranged in sentences and phrases in order to convey their meaning.

Stream of consciousness

Character’’s direct thoughts are written or spoken in a way that reflects the continuos flow or such thoughts in the reader’s mind.

Synthesis

A powerful thinking skill that involves bringing together and combining different elements into one.

Third-person limited narration

The story is told from the (limited) point of view of one character.

Third-person objective narration

A narrator recounts facts about what characters say and do, but does not say anything about their thoughts/ feelings.

Third-person omniscient narration

The narrator sees and knows everything.

Tone

The way in which words are spoken using certain vocabulary, sentence structure, sentence type and so on.

Wit

The ability to express oneself in a clever and intelligent way, and often a way which might make other people laugh..