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. allusion or alliteration)

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. across, in, with, by)

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