need to know English EOC terms

Dramatic Irony

(theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

Analogy

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

Metaphor

A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as.

Simile

A comparison using like or as

inference

A conclusion one can draw from the presented details

Dialogue

A conversation between characters

Archetype

A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response

Symbolism

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

Soliloquy

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Verbal Irony

A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant

Oxymoron

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

Stanza

A group of lines in a poem

Pun

A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

Refrain

A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.

Repetition

A name, key word, or phrase is repeated several times

Unreliable Narrator

A narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted

Motivation

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

Couplets

A pair of rhyming lines in a poem often set off from the rest of the poem. Shakespeare's sonnets all end in couplets.

Flashback

A plot-structuring device whereby a scene from the fictional past is inserted into the fictional present or dramatized out of order.

Conflict

A problem to be resolved; a difficulty to be overcome; both plot and suspense are impossible without this.

Rhetorical Question

A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer

Allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Dialect

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

Rhyme Scheme

A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

Understatement

A statement that says less than what is meant

Narrative

A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text.

Synonyms

A word that means the same, or almost the same, as another word in the same language, either in all of its uses or in a particular context.

Tone

A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.

Personification

An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form (e.g., Flowers danced about the lawn.).

Foreshadowing

An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments.

Connotation

Associations a word calls to mind.

Theme

Central idea of a work of literature

Structure

Described in terms of stanza, form, and meter.

Imagery

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

Denotation

Dictionary definition

Characterization

How the author describes the character

Mood

How the reader feels about the text while reading.

Situational Irony

Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

Figurative Language

Language that communicates ideas beyond the exact, literal meaning of words.

Setting

The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.

Central Idea

The most important or central thought of a passage

Purpose

The stated or implied goal of the act

Paradox

a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements

Objective Summary

answers the 5w's (who, what, when, where, why) short version of the text that tells the beginning, middle and end; expresses no opinion, but tells significance.

Hyperbole

purposeful exaggeration for effect

Ancedote

short account of an interesting or humorous incident

Exaggeration

the act of making something more noticeable than usual

Point Of View

the perspective from which a story is told

Parallel Structure

the repetition of phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure

Alliteration

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse

Onomotopoeia

use of words that imitate sounds-CRASH, BANG, HISS

Antonyms

words that have opposite meanings