unit2 key terms

Alliteration - The use of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are close together.

Allegory - a story in which the peoples, places, and things represent general concepts or morals qualities, such as good and evil

Analysis - gaining a critical understanding of something by examining its individual parts.

Authors purpose - the reason the author wrote or is writing about a topic

Block quote - A quote four lines or longer formatted without quotation marks and indented from the left margin.

Frame narrative - A narrative structure where a main narrative sets the stage for a bunch of smaller stories.

Historical context - The political, social, cultural, and/or economic setting of an idea, event, or person.

Imagery - any description that appeals to the senses

Medium - the means by which something is communicated; the material something is created from

Meter - poetry, a pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds.

Moral - A lesson to be learned from a story or event.

Objective - Without opinion or bias.

Objective summary - A balanced description of a written work's most important parts in which the summarizer does not offer an opinion or provide a detailed analysis.

Parable - A special kind of narrative meant to teach a universal truth, usually about the effects of good and bad human behavior.

Paraphrase - A rewording of a statement made by someone else.

Poetic devices - Language elements, such as simile and metaphor, that support the mood, tone, and meaning of a poem

Poetry slam - An organized event of live performance poetry.

Rhyme - An organized event of live performance poetry.

Setting - the time, place, and social environment in which a story takes place

Slant rhyme - Words that rhyme partially but not completely.

Example: room and name

Spoken word - A type of poetry that is intended to be read aloud

Subheading - A heading for a section of text in a written work that falls under another, larger section or chapter.

Subjective - Shaped by personal bias

Symbolism - the use of symbols to represent ideas beyond the literal reading of the text

Topic sentence - the sentence in which the main idea of a paragraph is stated; usuallly the first sentence of a paragraph