English9 review

Allusion

A reference to a well known person place event . Literary work or work of art

Climax

The highest point of interest or suspense in a story

Dynamic character

A character who changes ( developed and grows ) during the story

First person narrator

The speaker is one of the characters and tells the story

Foreshadowing

The use of clues that suggest events that have not yet to occur

Irony

Words used to suggest the opposite of what is meant

Limited Third person narrator

The reader experiences the story through the senses and thoughts of one character

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as through it were something else

Narrative hook

Where a story is given direction or an inciting incident occurs

Omniscient narrator

The reader knows the thoughts and feelings off all the characters in the story

Personification

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

Simile

A figure of speech in which like or as is used to make comparison between two basically unlike ideas

Symbol

Anything that stands for or represents something else

Tone

The author’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject

Alliteration

The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

Assonance

The repetition of similar vowel sounds

Meter

The formal organization of rhythms

Mood

The feelings created in a reader by literary work or passage

Couplet

A pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter

Extended metaphor

A sustained comparison for several lines or for an entire poem

Free verse poem

Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

Irony

Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant

Onomatopoeia

The use of words to imitate sounds

Refrain

A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem

Sonnet

A 14 line poem ,usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter