English vocab
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ivytlee on December 15, 2011
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fwcd class of 2016, FWCD 9th Grade, The Yellow Bananas, FWCD Ninth Grade
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | the use of words that begin with the same sound near one another (as in wild and woolly or a babbling brook) |
| Allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, place, or phrase |
| Characterization | the way an author presents characters |
| Connotation | the emotions, values, or images associated with a word |
| Denotation | Dictionary Definition of a word |
| Detail | Thorough description |
| Diction | word choice used to convey a certain effect. |
| Dialect | The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. |
| Dialogue | a conversation between two or more persons |
| Flashback | a past incident recurring clearly in the mind |
| Foreshadowing | indicates beforehand, portend, foretell |
| Imagery | language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes |
| Metaphor | comparison of things not using like or as |
| Personification | act of ascribing human qualities to an inhuman object. |
| Point of view | the perspective from which the story is told. |
| Omniscient narrator | knows everything, may reveal the motivations, thoughts and feelings of the characters, and gives the reader information. |
| Limited narrator | presents the action and the characters' speech, without comment or emotion. The reader has to interpret them and uncover their meaning. |
| Setting | environment, time and place of the action in a book |
| Simile | comparison of things using like or as |
| Symbol | a word or object that stands for another word or object. |
| Theme | a common threads or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work |
| Tone | the writer's attitude toward the material and/or readers. |
| Motif | A distinctive or repeated idea used in a literary piece of work. |
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