English quiz
colloquialisms
Contractions, shortened word forms, and slang.
Abstract Word
Refers to an intangible idea, condition, or quality something that cannot be perceived by the senses. love or patriotism
Understatment
Saying less than is meant.
General words
refer to entire classes or groups of items . poem
Specific words
refer to particular item. Seventieth century sonnet
Concrete Word
refers to an item that is a perceivable, tangible entity, for example a kiss or a flag
Simile
A comparison between two unlike items that uses like or as
Formal dictation
Characterized be a learn vocabulary and grammatically correct forms. no phone YES TELEPHONE
Figures of speech
Expressions that use words to achieve effects beyond the power of ordinary language
Static
Freezing the moment and thereby giving in the timeless quality of painting or sculpture
Personification
Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects.
Informal dictation
IS the language closest to everyday conversation. it includes colloquialisms
Metonymy
IS the substitution of the name of one thing for the name of another thing that most readers associate with the first . for example hired gun instead of paid assassin.
Connotation.
It can be positive, neutral or negative. what it means with emotion.
Extended Simile
It is developed through the entire poem
Imagery
To call up images in the minds of an aduidance, language that evokes a physical sensations .
Denotations
What is signifies without emotional associations, the word Family for example denotes "a group of related things or people"
Metaphor
When an imaginative comparison between two unique itms does not use like or as. if it uses IS IS IS
Images
allows readers to visualize.
Kinetic
conveying a sense of motion or change.
Connotations
emotional associations that define your response. red sunset
Atmosphere or mood
how the poem feels.
Word order
is as important as the choice of words
Hyperbole
is intentional exaggeration saying more than is actually meant
Synecdoche
the substation of a part for the whole. or whole for a part .