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.