English Terms
Early Childhood Education Bob with Bob at Hendrick Hudson High School
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Alliteration
The repitition of the first letter or sound in a series of words
Antagonist
A character force in a conflict with the main character
Characters
The people, animals, etc. who take part in a story
Characterzation
How the reader learns about the chracters in a story
Direct Characterzation
The author directly tells you what the character is like
Indirect Characterzation
The reader learns about the characters through their thoughts and feelings, actions and words
Conflict
Problems involving the characters in a story
Flashback
A return to a past event in a story
Foreshadowing
Clues to what will happen next
Hyperbole
Deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for effect
Imagery
Vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses
Irony
The difference between appearence and reality, expectation and results, or meaning and intention
Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as
Mood
Feeling created by a work of literature
Onomatopoeia
Use of words that imitate the sound associated with something
Personification
When human charactereristics are given to inhuman objects
Plot
Sequence of events in a story (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling action, resolution)
Point of View
Perspective from which a story is told
Protagonist
The main character in a story
Repitition
The use of a word of group of words more then once in a story
Rhyme
The repitition of sounds in two or more words
Rhythm
The sound pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Simile
A comparision of two unlike things using like or as
Setting
Location, time in history, season, and customs or manner of the society where a story takes place
Stanza
A unified group of lines in poetry
Symbolism
When an object stands for someone else
Tone
The poet's or speaker's attitude in a poem
Theme
The central message, moral/lesson, or main idea of a story
Verse
A line of poetry
About this deck
By: Paul MacMichael
Created: 2011-04-13
Size: 29 flashcards
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Created: 2011-04-13
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