Part B: Reading Comprehension

Alliteration

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

Allusion

  • an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; indirect reference

Attitude

  • how an author or character feels about something in a novel

Caption

  • a short piece of text placed under/beside a picture in a social media post, magazine, book, or newspaper that describes that specific picture or explains hat is happening in the picture

Cliché

  • an overused phrase or element of a text that has lost its originality, impact, and meaning

  • sound true and conclusive, which makes them persuasive and say to repeat

Comparison

  • a consideration or estimate of the similarités or dissimilarities between two things or people

Contrast

  • The state of being strikingly different from something; a juxtaposition

Context

  • the circumstances due to events, ideas, and statements, which can be fully understood and assessed

Elaboration

  • the process of selecting and integrating details that support, explain, illustrate, and/or develop ideas, regardless of whether these ideas come from source materials or from experience

Ellipsis (…)

  • the narrative device of omitting a portion of the sequence of events, allowing the reader to fill in the narrative gaps

Hyperbole

  • an extreme exaggeration specifically for literary or rhetorical effect

Imagery

  • visual description or description through figurative language

Implies

  • suggest the truth or existence of something not expressly stated

Irony

  • the expression of meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite

Metaphor

  • a figure of speech that describes an object in a way which is not literally true; not using like or as

Parenthetical

  • a phrase that is not essential to the rest of the sentence

  • can add crucial information to a sentence without disrupting the flow; can give detail or insight towards an idea

Personification

  • the attribute of given personal nature to a nonhuman object or the representation of human traits or characteristics to a nonhuman thing

Playwright

  • play writer

Rhetorical question

  • a question asked to make a point, rather than get an answer

Shift

  • a literary device in which tone or mood in a piece changes to define characters or events and make the piece of literature more engaging

Speaker

  • perspective

Stage direction

  • a non-spoken text that describes movement or actions on stage

Tension

  • the sense that something ominous is right around he corner

Theme

  • the idea that remains consistant and the piece of literature is focused around in

Tone

  • reveals the narrator’s attitude as conveyed by their specific word choice

Voice

  • opinion or attitude given by the author that is expressed in the piece