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 .