| Term | Definition |
|---|
| parts of speech | noun, verb, adj, adv, interjection, conjunction, pronoun, preposition |
| compliments | direct object, predicate noun, predicate adjective, predicate, indirect objects |
| phrases | infinitive, appositive, participle, preposition, gerrund |
| clauses | independent, adv, noun, adj |
| allegory | story in which characters/events a symbols expressing truths about human life |
| dialogue | a conversation between two or more persons; exchange of ideas |
| soliloquy | an unusually long speech, character onstage expresses thoughts aloud |
| parable | fable, a short story containing a moral (often animals) |
| foreshadowing | to give a hint of before hand |
| irony | contrast between expectation and reality |
| verbal irony | says something but really means something very different |
| dramatic irony | when the audience or reader knows something a character doesnt know |
| situational irony | contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens |
| voice | author's style , characteristic speech |
| conflict | man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. machine, man vs. self, man vs.nature |
| plot | series of events that give story meaning and effect |
| climax | the peak of the plot, height of excitement |
| denouement | the outcome of a complex series of events |
| theme | meaning or concept we are left with |
| allusion | passing reference to something out of context, indirect mention |
| connotation | the emotional implication and associations that a word may carry |
| diction | choice and use of words in speech or writing |
| tone | the quality of a person's voice "nervous tone of voice" |
| personification | nonhuman organisms givren human qualities |
| simile | DOES use like or as in comparison between two or more things |
| metaphor | does NOT use like or as in comparison between two or more things |
| alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of a stressed sylable |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
| symbol | stands for itself and something else |
| asyndeton | no conjuction in a list |
| polysyndeton | all conjuctions in a list |
| expletive | an interupter ("they can, oh yes, get A's) |
| eponym | a word derived from a name or person |
| understatement | making something less than it is |
| rhetorical question | a question asked for effect with no answer expected |
| parallelism | sturcture is the same ("to-for-with") |
| hyperbole | wild exaggeration |
| apostrophe | addressing nonliving, abstract things like death |
| amplification | took one term and amplified it ("would have power, power to learn...") |
| conjuctions | join words together "men AND women" |
| preposition | stands before "IN or THROUGH a door" |
| interjection | shows suprise "ah! how wise!" |
| adverbs | how things are done "slowly, quickly" |
| adjectives | tell the kind of noun |
| verbs | action |
| nouns | person, place or thing |
| pronoun | refers to a noun already mentioned "it is bad for YOU" |
| subject | sentence is about it |
| predicate | = verb |
| Direct Object | follows ACTION VERB |
| Predicate Noun | follows LINKING VERB (noun) |
| Predicate Adjective | follows LINKING VERB (adjective) |
| independent clause | stands on own |
| adverb clause | when, where, how |
| noun clause | no longer makes sense if taken out |
| adjective clause | sits next to the noun it describes |
| infinitive phrase | to + verb |
| participle phrase | -ing or -ed (next to noun usually) |
| prepositional phrase | to, by, in, etc |
| appositive phrase | surrounded by commas |
| gerrund | pull out and it doesnt make sense (phrase) |
Combine with other sets
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