Epiphany Vocabulary
Impetus
Cause of; stimulus.
Dialogue
Conversations between two or more persons/characters.
Discrepancy
Difference.
Strong
Especially able, competent, or powerful.
Evidence
Facts or information used as support for whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
Successive
Following in uninterrupted order.
Key Details
Important words or phrases.
Significant
Important; of consequence.
Non-literal
Language that contains or uses figures of speech (e.g.,simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idiom).
Objective
Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
Stanza
One of the major divisions of a poem; composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
Specific Details
Particular words or phrases.
Exposition
Provides important background information and introduces the setting, characters, and conflict (in some cases).
Pattern
Repetition of an element or elements in a work.
Recount
Retell.
Distinct
Separate or different from.
Analogy
Similarities between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based.
Event
Something that happens or happened.
Emphasis
Special attention.
Rising Action
The action that leads to the climax used to build suspense.
Falling Action
The action that takes place after climax to reveal the final outcome of key events.
Structure
The arrangement of and relationship between the parts or elements.
Culture
The behaviors and beliefs, characterizations' of a particular group of people.
Resolution
The conclusion of the conflict.
Citation
The exact location of a quotation or reference from a text brought forward as support (more useful when it includes a line number, paragraph, page number, and/or author).
Irony
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous emphatic effect.
Sequence
The following of one thing after another.
Style
The habitual, repeated patterns that differentiate one writer from another.
Climax
The highest point of tension/interest in the plot.
Narrator
The individual who relates or tells the story.
Act
The most major subdivision of a play; made up of scenes.
Point of View
The narrators position in relation to the story being told.
Prose
The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
Literal
The ordinary or usual meaning of words.
Plot
The pattern of events of a literary work, which includes: an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Beauty
The quality present in a thing or person that give intense pleasure/deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestation, a meaningful design or pattern, or something else.
Conflict
The struggle between opposing forces or ideas.
Central Idea
The thought, concept, notion, or impression that is of greatest importance in the text or portion of the text, it may be implied or stated.
Folklore
The traditional beliefs, customs and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth.
Satire
The use of humor, irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or exaggeration in exposing, denouncing, deriding, or exposing and criticizing people's stupidity or vices.
Sarcasm
The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
In Depth
Thorough; detailed.
Interact
To act in such a way as to have an effect on another.
Contribute
To be an important factor in; help to cause.
Analyze
To break into smaller components for the purpose of study or examination.
Convey
To communicate or make known.
Evaluate
To decide the value or worth of after study.
Reveal
To disclose; unveil; tell.
Propel
To drive or cause to move forward or onward.
Describe
To give an account in words (of someone or something), including all the relevant characteristics, qualities, or events.
Provoke
To incite or stimulate to action.
Explain
To make something clear by describing it in more detail or by revealing relevant facts or ideas.
Allude
To mention without discussing at length.
Reference
To mention.
Contrast
To note differences.
Distinguish
To note differences.
Compare
To note similarities.
Drama
To play; a prose or verse composition telling a story that is intended to be performed by actors.
Meaning
What is intended to be, or actually is expressed or indicated.
Setting
Where the story takes place.
Base Word
A word that can stand alone without a prefix and/or suffix.
Similar
Alike.
Illutration
An example or image serving to clarify or prove something.
Interpretation
An explanation of the meaning of another's artistic or creative work.
Episode
An incident or event that is a part of a larger sequence.
Incident
An individual occurrence or event.
Mytery
Anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown.
Myth
A traditional, ancient story, usually with heroes and gods.
Approach
A way of dealing with something.
Prefix
A word part added to the beginning of a root or base word.
Suffix
A word part added to the end of a root or base word singular perspective; the narrator uses I, me, we to relate thoughts, experiences, and observations.
Root
A word part to which a prefix and/or suffix may be added to create a word.
Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things without the use of like or as.
Simile
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
Poem
A composition, usually in verse, that may be characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm.
Aspect
A distinct feature.
Inference
A logical assumption base on observed facts from the text and one's own prior knowledge.
Medium
A means of communicating information
First Person
A method of storytelling in which the narrator is a character or observer in the story who conveys information to the reader from his/her.
Story
A narrative account, either real or fictitious, told in prose.
Series
A number of things or events of the same class coming one after another.
Subject
A person, place, thing, or idea.
Character
A personality in a literary work.
Fable
A short story, typically with animals as the characters, conveying a moral.
Scene*
A single event that occurs in a particular time, and place.
Explanation
A statement that makes something clear by describing it in more detail or by revealing relevant facts or ideas.
Scene
A subdivision of an act of a play.