10th Grade Unit 1 Quiz 3

mood

also called atmosphere, the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

setting

the time and place of the action in a literary work

direct characterization

a writer states the character's traits, or characteristics

indirect characterization

a writer depends on the reader to draw conclusions about the character's traits.

personification

When a non-human subject is given human characteristics

imagery

the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader

elements of Gothic Literature

bleak setting, tortured characters, strange or violent plot, dramatic description, gloomy mood, recurring symbolism

denotation

the dictionary meaning of a word

connotation

the set of ideas and feelings associated with a word

Elements of Magical Realism

recognizable characters, realistic setting and details, fantastic events, unimpressed tone

idioms

commonly used expressions that are not meant literally

homonyms

each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins.

diction

word choice

symbolism

the use of symbols that stand for or represent something else.

Venn diagram

an illustration that uses overlapping circles to show the logical relation between two or more sets of items

assonance

the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

alliteration

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

rhyme scheme

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

personification

A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

-mot-

move

-mens-

measure

-man-

hand

-psych-

mind; spirit

-spec-

look; see

-ful

ful of

-ous

makes a noun an adjective

un-

not

-ed

past tense

-cred-

believe

-ize

means "to make" or "to become" and forms verbs

-ation

forms abstract nouns

-ly

creates an adverb

-ion

forms abstract nouns

-ive

forms adjectives

in-

into or not

-ity

forms abstract nouns from other parts of speech