Untitled Flashcards Set

Term

Definition

Example

Alliteration

2 or more words with the same beginning sound 

…four fork …

Allusion

something that brings to mind something else without explicitly mentioning.

…Chocolate was her achilles heel…

Assonance

When a sentence has a relation of a vowel sound in multiple words. 

Go slow over the road 

Couplet

A pair of lines in a poem 

Double, Double, Toil and trouble; Fire burns and cauldron bubble. 

Hyperbole

An exaggeration of the truth 

The weekend is in a thousand days . 

Imagery

A visual description of something 

The wave came in so loud that you could hear it from the south. 

Irony:

Dramatic

Situational

Verbal

when something is said or done that is the opposite of the situation. 

Dramatic: when the reader knows something the characters don’t to create tension.

Situational: When the opposite of is escaped to happen to create hurmour. 

Verbal: someone says something but means to complete the opposite. 

Dramatic: the viewers see a trap laid and watch the animal walk right into it.

Situational: people talking about a murder in a cafe.

Verbal: “My socks are drenched, just great”

Metaphor

Compare two things without like or as

I’m a cheetah in track and field.

Onomatopoeia

Words that are a sound 

pop, smash, crack…

Oxymoron

Placing two opposite words together 

Awfully good, deafening silence 

Paradox

a sentence that contradicts itself 

everything I say is a lie 

Personification

Giving a human or living treat to things that are not human. 

the trees dance in the wind 

Pun

When wordplay is used to make the audience amused 

what did the house wear to prom, an address 

Rhyme Scheme

The pattern of each rhyming word at the end of a line in a poem. 

…ends

…night 

…friends 

…light 

Simile

comparing to words using like or as 

I fight like a tiger 

Stanza

A set of lines in a poem usually 4 lines, but it the poems version of a paragraph.  

Enjambment

Running a line of a poem to the next with no type of punctuation.

Free Verse

Free verse is a poem that has no rules to it. ( meter or rhyme scheme)

Meter

The rhythm or pattern of  he beat in poetry. 

Ode

A poem that gives ode (thanks or appreciation) to something. Usually  with dramatic words. 

Limerick

poem with five lines, meter AABBA. A’s go da dum da da dum da da dum, and B’s go da dum da da dum

Haiku

A poem that has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the last.

Paragraph Types:

Descriptive

Argumentative

Narrative

Expository

Descriptive: describing something with the five senses. 

Argumentative: Arguming point or opinion against something else.

Narrative: Telling a story of some sorts. 

Expository: giving some kind of information or intuition 

Morphology

Methods of Presenting:

Causal

Topical

Spatial

Chronological

Causal: Order in a cause to effect series, where everything is in a specific order. 

Topical: Ordering in categories or class. (dog breeds)

Spatial: Ordering it to where it is space in relation to something else.  

Chronological: Order to how the events played out in time. 

Presentations:

Introduction & Concluding Strategies

Introduction: The start of the presentation, there to get the attention and create contact. As well as to tell them what the presentation is about. 

Concluding: The end of your presentation, and the time to summarize, reinforce the purpose, to get the audience opponents of purpose, as well to have a lasting impression. 

Quotation, Starling statement, question, humor, etc.

Appropriate punch line, quotation, personal example of the value of the information, etc.

Speech Delivery:

Volume

Rate

Pitch

Stress

Gestures

Volum: the strengthening in your voice.

Rate: The speed of your speech.

Pitch: The frequency of your voice. 

Stress: putting emphasis on a word or group of words using volume, rate, or pitch.

Gestures: movement mostly using your out body to emphasize your idea or emotions. 

how loud or quiet. 

How fast or slow you talk.

 how high or low. 

saying “me” louder  

Lifting my hands close to the audience when I am asking they a question. 

Term

Definition/Example

Plot

The plot is the meat or the story part of the story. 

Plot: Introduction

Introduction is the first part of plot and is when information like character and setting are introduced 

Plot: Rising Action

when the story gets more interesting and the conflict is revealed. 

Plot: Climax

The highest point of interest and action. As well as the turning point, it leaves the audience wondering what is going to happen next. 

Plot: Falling Action

The events begin to resolve itself  and the reader knows if the conflict has been resolved.

Plot: Conclusion

This is the final outcome of the story. All events have been untangled. 

Conflict

The problem in the story and the part that makes the story interesting. There 2 types of conflict Internal (conflit with themself person vs themself) and External (conflict with an outside forces, person vs person, person vs nature, etc) 

Character

2 meanings: 

• Person in the story ( main- protagonist, against  main- antagonist, neither- side character)

• The personality/ characteristic of someone (technique to develop character: physical description, speech and actions of the character, Direct comment from narrator, and speech and actions of other characters). 

Setting

Setting is the place/location, time, weather conductions, social condition, and mood/atmosphere of the story. 

Theme

The main point or idea of the story. 

Point of View:

First Person

Third Person Limited

Third Person Omniscient

first person: A character in the story use only me, my, I , our and we pronouns

Third person limited: you know the thoughts and feelings of one character, narration is only in third person. 

Third person omniscient: The reader can know the feelings and thoughts of all characters from the all know narrator, this narrator can tell you the the past, present and future, also can use the pronouns she, he, and they. 

Term

Definition

Example

Noun

A person, place, thing  or Idea  

Aaliyah, Canada, poodle, etc 

Pronoun

A way of addressing something or someone, and usually comes before a noun. 

She, they, his, etc 

Verb

An action words

running, laughing, talk, etc 

Adverb

A word to describe a verb. 

Fast, loud , repeatedly, etc 

Adjective

A word to despicable a noun.

Big, short, blue (technically blue can also be a noun), etc 

Preposition

A word used before a noun, pronoun or noun phase to show direction, time, place, spatial relationship, or to introduce an object.

In, at, on, of, to… etc 

Conjunction

A word that connects 2 causes or 2 coordinating words of these same clauses. 

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so 

Simple

A sentence with one clause, a verb/ predicate and a noun/ subject

The boy walked. 

Complex

A complex sentences is a sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause 

The boy walked, then stopped.

Compound

A compound sentence is a sentence with 2 or more independent clauses that are joined by coordinating conjunction. 

He went on a walk and she walked on a walk. 

Compound - Complex

A compound- complex sentence is a sentence with 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. 

He walked, and she walked to the store. 

Dependent Clause

A clause that cannot stand alone as its own sentence. (They don’t have both a subject and a verb)

…to the store… 

Independent Clause

A cause that can stand alone as its own sentence.( it has a subject and a verb) 

She walked.