16. COMEDYDefinition: A story that ends
happily. NOT NECESSARILY FUNNY.
Example: Kung Fu Panda 2
Memorization Tip: THINK about smiling after something funny….think smiling because you’re happy… HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
17. COMIC RELIEF
Definition: Comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative.
Example: FINDING NEMO = when things get serious, Dory makes a joke to provide COMIC RELIEF
Memorization Tip:
A comedian makes you laugh…
to relieve you of stress.
18. CONFLICTDefinition: struggle or clash
between opposing characters or opposing forces.
Example: Harry Potter vs. Voldemort
Memorization Tip: Conflict rhymes with convict
Imagine if a convict moved in with you…how would that cause CONFLICT? He steals your
toothbrush! And your cereal?!?!?!? And dates your mom!?!?!?
NOOOOOO!!!
Language Activity # 6
Denotation of Fragrance:
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Positive Connotation Negative Connotation
1. 1.__________________
2.___________________2.__________________
3.___________________3.__________________
19. CONNOTATION
Definition: all the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definitions, or denotations.
Connotation
Think nation
What do people think or feel about America?
20. COUPLET
Definition: two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
2 Lines that Rhyme = a Couple
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
21. DESCRIPTION
Definition: type of writing intended to create a mood or emotion or to re-create a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an experience.
Author DESCRIBES as if you, the reader, were there!!!
22. DIALECT
Definition : way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people
DIAL the telephone = hear people talking = people talking from different areas.
Huntington Beach: Hey dude, what’s up bro.
Southern: Ain’t your mama ever taught you nothin?
Louisiana: New Orleans = Nawlins
23. DIALOGUE
Definition : way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people
Conversation between 2 + people
Ms. Tran: Will you guys please study for the CSTs?
Class: Of course! Whatever you wish, Ms. Tran! I appreciate all of your hard work and time put into helping us study so hard! You’re the best ever!
Ms. Tran: I love you, period __.
24.DICTION
Definition : a writer’s or speaker’s choice of words (it is an essential element of a write’s style)
Think DICTIONary….what do you find? WORDS!!!!
Writer’s choice of WORDS!!!
25. DRAMA
Definition : story that is written to be acted for an audience
Story meant to be acted for an audience.
We are reading Romeo and Juliet, but it is supposed to be seen as a play.
26. DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
Definition : a poem in which a speaker addresses one or more silent listeners, often reflecting on a specific problem or situation
Poem “From Mother to Son”
Mother speaks to son through the poem
Poem is directed to the son
The son = silent listener (never says anything)
27. EPIC
Definition: long story told in elevated language (usually poetry), which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society
EPIC!!! WOW!!! LONG STORY!!! (about great deeds of a hero)
ODYSSEY = GREEK HERO ODYSSEUS’ QUEST
28. EPITHET
Definition: adjective or descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing
Think Epithet – het- HAT
Abraham Lincoln wore a top HAT
“Honest Abe” –descriptive phrase for him.
29. ESSAY
Definition: short piece of nonfiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view
YOU WRITE THESE IN CLASS!
PERSONAL = free write, informal
*quick writes, casual responses, journals
FORMAL = serious, academic language
*literary analysis, response to literature, etc.
30.EXPOSITION
Definition: type of writing that explains, gives information, defines, or clarifies an idea
EXPO = EXPLAIN = Writing in which you explain
Example: a cook book recipe tells you how to cook something
Exposition in plot = Basic Situation
31. FABLE
Definition: very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about how to get along in life
A SHORT STORY THAT TEACHES A MORAL OR PRACTICAL LESSON ABOUT LIFE
The boy who cried wolf fibbed (lied).
Think FIB – FAB. FABLE!!
32. FIGURE OF SPEECH Definition: word or phrase that describes
one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level
Language that is not meant to be understood on a literal level
“Go figure!” don’t literally go and figure out the issue and solve problems.
“It cost me an arm and a leg…” $$$$
Worse comes to worst…
33. FLASHBACK
Definition: scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time
A camera FLASHES.
Its pictures bring us BACK to past memories.
34. FLASH-FORWARD
Definition: a scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to shift into the future
Forward = FUTURE!
35. FOIL
Definition: character who is used as a contrast to another character
Foil shines.
A foil character helps to make the main character SHINE.
Batman = dark, mysterious, silent, strong
Robin = small, obnoxious, funny
36. FOLK TALE
Definition: story that has no known author and was originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth
Tale = told
Stories that are passed down through word-of-mouth
37. FORESHADOWING
Definition: the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot
CLUES
HINTS
38. FREE VERSE
Definition: poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
You’re FREE to do what you want. WRITE what you want. You still have natural rhythm, but no rules are applied.
39. GENRE
Definition: the category that a work of literature is classified under. Five major genres in literature are nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and myth
A category of literature
Just remember this…
40. HAIKU
Definition: Japanese verse from consisting of three lines and, usually, seventeen syllables (5 in the first line, 6 in the second, and 5 in the third)
Japanese verse consisting of 3 lines.
HAIKU has 5 letters. It starts with 5 syllables.
KU rhymes with two. Add two, the next line has 7 syllables.
End back at 5 syllables.
41.. HYPERBOLE
Definition: figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect
He was as HYPER as the Tasmanian Devil.
This bowl is SO hyper!!!!
Think exaggeration for comic effect.
42. IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Definition: lone of poetry that contains five iambs
A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs.
An iamb is a unit of measure for specific poetry.
When you read a line of this poetry, the syllables are UNSTRESSED then STRESSED.
but SOFT! what LIGHT through YON der WIN dow BREAKS.
U / U / U / U / U /
Unstressed STRESSED pattern 5 times in a line = iambic pentameter
43. IDIOM
Definition: expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of each word
Think IDIOM = IDIOT
“That idiot was as dumb as a door knob.”
Expressions that are peculiar…
44. IMAGERY
Definition: Language that appeals to the 5 senses.
CREATES IMAGES IN YOUR MIND.
45. INVERSION
Definition: reversal of the normal word order of a sentence
A VERSION of the writer’s word order.
They write however they want for THEIR purpose or to create a certain effect.
THINK YODA!
Hungry I am.
Wonderful Ms. Tran is.
Scholars you are.
46. IRONY Definition: contrast between expectation and
reality – between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true
Contrast between expectations and reality. There are 3 kinds.
VERBAL IRONY: VERBAL = SPOKEN WORDS
SITUATIONAL IRONY: You’re in situations that you wouldn’t expect would happen.
DRAMATIC IRONY: You’re sitting in a theater watching a dramatic movie and you know what happens when the characters don’t.
47. LYRIC POETRY
Think lyrics from a song. This poetry is musical and emotional.
The writer of a lyric poem uses words that express his state of mind, his perceptions, or his feelings.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
48. METAPHOR
A comparison FOR 2 unlike things without the words like, than, as, or resembles.
THINK ABOUT THIS MATH EQUATION:
METAPHOR (4)
TWO (2) = 2 unlike things being compared
49. METER
Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Ways people read poetry –they emphasize certain syllables
Think meter …measure…way to measure syllables.
50. MOOD
Think moody = Feeling something?
The feeling a story evokes!
51. MYTH
Story based in a particular culture.
Think mythical creatures.
Think Lochness monster!
Think Big Foot!
Think werewolves!
52. NARRATION
A type of writing where the speaker tells what happens.
Think narrator who tells a story.
53. NARRATOR
Voice telling a story/ Point of view.
1st person
Omniscient
Third person limited
54. Non-Fiction
Writing that deals with real people, real things, real events, and real places.
Think NON-FICTION
NOT-FAKE
55. NOVEL
Fictional prose narrative usually consisting of more than 50,000 words.
WHAT A NOVELTY! HOW GRAND! WHAT A LONG STORY!
56. ONOMATOPOEIA
ONO = AWW NO!!!
SOUNDS. SOUNDS. SOUNDS!!!
57. PARADOX PARA= not normal, strange, wondering
“The Gift of the Magi” – Della and Jim are the richest couple on earth. (rich in love but not in money)
Nobody goes to that restaurant, it's too crowded.
Don't go near the water until you've learned to swim.
The man who wrote such a stupid sentence cannot write at all.
If you get this message, call me; if you don't, then don't worry about it.
58. PARALLELISM
Repetition of words or phrases or sentences that have the same GRAMMATICAL structure
“I came, I saw, I conquered.” – Julius Caesar
59. PERSONA
Mask or voice assumed by the writer
The author takes on another PERSON’s view point
60. Personification
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
PERSON = HUMAN
You are making something nonhuman HUMAN.
The wind whispers.
61. Plot
Series of related events that make up a story or drama.
Plot = think of a chain. All of these events link together.
62. Poetry
KEY WORDS: rhythmic, uses figurative language and imagery to appeal to a reader’s emotions and imagination.
Ex. Legal Alien
“A handy token sliding back and forth between the fringes of both worlds.”
63. POINT OF VIEW
Omniscient = all-knowing (OMMMM = sounds like a prayer…God-Like…knows everything!)
1st person = 1st person pronoun “I” (Think 1 looks like I)
3rd person = Third person pronouns He, she, they, it
(Number 3 rhymes with HE, SHE)
Vantage POINT = POINT of VIEW
64.PROTAGONIST
Main character
PRO = YES the character you are rooting for.
65. PUN
Play on multiple meanings of words.
Pun rhymes with FUN. Think funny jokes.
How do you make a tissue dance?
You put a BOOGIE in it.
Boogie – Booger Boogie – Dance
66. REFRAIN
Repeated words.
“Hey, hey, HEY.”
This phrase is repeated throughout
his song.
Think REfrain = REpeat
67. RHYME
Repetition of sounds that are similar.
End rhyme = rhyme at the END of the line
Ms. Tran’s scholars will score 858,
This will make our school so great.
Internal rhyme = rhyme INSIDE the line
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered
weak and weary
68. RYTHYM
Think rhythm, think music. MUSICAL QUALITY in language.
69. SATIRE
SATIRE – PUT SOMETHING UNDER FIRE (“put on blast”)
Making fun of something
70. SCENE DESIGN
SCENE in a PLAY.
What sets, lights, costumes, and props do they use?
71. Setting
Where a story is SET.
The real HOMS
“windows that can’t breathe”
“swollen door”
72. SHORT STORY
LOOK FOR THE WORD SHORT in the answer choices, and you’ve got the right answer. You’re welcome.
73. SIMILE
A comparison between 2 unlike things USING the words like, as, than, or resembles.
My scholars are as bright as the sun.
74. SOLILOQUY
LONG speech given by a character alone by themselves.
SOLO = alone
SOLOlilquy…
75. SONNET
Think of a woman who had 14 sons.
She wrote a 14 line poem about how she had a net of sons.
76. SPEAKER
Voice talking to us in a poem.
You hear a voice over the SPEAKER.
“Legal Alien” = voice of a Mexican American who is lost in her culture.
77. STANZA
GROUP OF CONSECUTIVE LINES IN A POEM THAT FORM A SINGLE UNIT.
Think STANZA, STANDS ALONE
The chunks of a poem.
78. STYLE
PARTICULAR WAY AN AUTHOR USES LANGUAGE.
Just like YOU have a fashion style to wear clothes your way, authors use language in different ways to create style.
Edgar Allan Poe = scary, moody, emotional, twisted = represented through his repetition and varies short and long sentences.
79. SUSPENSE
ANXIETY the reader feels about the reading.
SUSPENSE…what events will COMMENCE?!
Someone thinks you’re a suspect for a murder..you get NERVOUS...you get ANXIETY!!
80. SYMBOL
SYMBOL is SOMETHING that STANDS for SOMETHING
81. TALL TALE
That mountain is SO tall and SO far.
A tale that is exaggerated and far-fetched (unbelievable).
Paul Bunyan : giant, tall lumberjack
82. THEME
CENTRAL IDEA OF A WORK.
Usually a phrase
*Love conquers all.
*War tears people apart.
83. TONE
Attitude a writer has towards a subject.
Think of your mother saying, “WATCH THAT TONE OF VOICE YOUNG LADY…”
84. TRAGEDY
UNHAPPY ENDING
OPPOSITE OF COMEDY.
85. VOICE
Distinctive use of language in a text.
The speaker may be a mother and her voice is motherly, nurturing, caring, and loving.
The author uses specific words (language) to create the character of the mother.
“Honey…” “M’am”
Term # 86. ARGUMENTDefinition: a series of
statements in a text designed to convince us of something
Example:
Persuasive Essay – you argue your opinion
Memorization Tip: You get into an arGUMent with your teacher on why you should be able to chew GUM in class.
87. CAUSE and EFFECT
HOW and WHY one thing leads to another.
Do not study for the test Poor score on the test
Bad attitude in class Parent conference
Be rude and disrespectful in class Receive a referral
Drop out of high school Earn minimum wage
88.CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
TIME ORDER.
CHRO
CHROME…
CHROME watches
Watches tell time..
89. CLAIM
CLAIM = OPINION
CLAIM rhymes with LAME
My opinion is that dogs are lame.
ALLEGORY
SYMBOLIC STORY (characters/events/actions STAND for something)
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