English Honors Vocab 2

Irony

Surprising contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens

Juxtaposition

To put things or people next to each other to make contrast

Metaphor

Comparison without using like or as

Onomatopoeia

Words that imitates a sound

Personification

Give nonhuman, human characteristics

Quatrain

Stanza that has 4 lines

Refrain

End of a song

Repetition

Act of repeating something

Rhyme

Repetition of similar sounds inside two two or more words at the end

Smilie

Comparison with like or as

Stanza

Group of lines in a poem

Symbol

Represent something

Theme

Overall message or idea the authors explores in a story

Tone

The way something is said attitude of feeling expressed in writing