Honors English 9 E.O.Y. Sg.

Central Idea

What the text is mainly about

Authors feeling

Tone

Context Clues

Clues that help you understand the text

Dialogue

Conversation between two or more people

Setting

Time and place

Characterization

Telling the traits of a character

Inference

A guess based on prior knowledge

Irony

Opposite of what is expected

Authors perspective

Authors opinions and beliefs on a topic

Idiom

A fixed expression meaning something else

Central image

A picture that connects part of the story

Assonance

Repetition of a vowel sound

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds

Alliteration

Repetition of sounds

Onomatopoeia

Sound words like boom or sizzle

Objective

No bias

Subjective

Bias

Simile

Comparison using like or as

Symbol

A representation

Theme

Message

Allusion

Reference to another work

Rhetorical device

A type of language used by an author (ex

Connotation

Implied meaning

Denotation

Dictionary definition

Slant Rhyme

Having a similar sound but not identical spelling like stop__ped__ and we__pt__

Precise

Exact

Excerpt

A short extract from a film, book, play, etc

Agile

Quick

Nimble

Light movement with ease

Meaning of root MEM

To remember

Meaning of suffix ORY

A place for

Passive voice

The action is done to the subject by someone else

Active voice

The person or thing doing the action

Prepositional phrase

Positional words (ex

Compound sentence

A sentence with one or more subject/predicate

Parallelism

Same sentence structure

Appositive phrases

A group of words that renames the noun next to it (Charles, the prize winning fighter)

Adjective

Describes a noun (purple, fluffy)

Noun

Person, place, thing, animal

Verb

An action word

Adverb

Describes a word

Use of colon

For independent clauses, time, or a list

Use of semi colon

Connects two similar but independent clauses