Language Arts Exam Terms

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Alliteration

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Is a repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Allusion

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A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

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Concrete poem

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A type of poem that looks like the thing the poem is about

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Extended metaphor

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Poems where the whole poem is a metaphor and is like another thing

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Figurative language

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Something that isn’t meant to be taken literally

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Foreshadowing

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A hint of what is to come

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Genre

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Type of literature commonly devided into poetry, prose, and drama

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Free verse

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A poem that doesn't rhyme

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Image

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A phrase that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses

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Irony

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There is 3 different types of irony Verbal, Dramatic, and irony of the situation.
Verbal you say something and mean the opposite is verbal irony. Dramatic the charecter in the story thinks something but the reader really knows what is going on. Irony of the situation is when the opposite action occurs from what the reader thinks.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

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Conflict

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4 types of conflict man v man, man v nature, man v self,and man v society.

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Dialogue

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A conversation in prose type of literature.

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Round charecter

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A charecter that developes throughout a story. A Flat charecter stay's the same and has very few charecteristics.

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Similie

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Comparing to different things using like or as.

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Suspense

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It's the quality in a story that keeps the reader reading because they don't know what is going to happen.

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Theme

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The time, place, and setting of a story like Germany 1942 on a cold day is a theme.

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Moral

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The message usually given at the end of story to tell the meaning of it.

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Motivation

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The thing that makes a charecter do something.

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Narrative Poem

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A poem with a narrator which usually doesn't rhyme.

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narrator

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The person who tells a story. There are 3 different types of narrators 1st person, 3rd person omnisent, and 3rd person limited.

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onomatopoeia

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Words the makes sounds like bark.

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personification

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The giving ohuman characteristics to non-human objects

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plot

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The way a story is planned one generating incedent, rising action, climax, falling actions, and resolution.

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poetry

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A type of literature written in stanzas and sometimes the last syllabels on a line rhymes with the last syllable on the next line.

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point of view

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From which person a story is told 1st person, 3rd person omnisent, and 3rd person limited.

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prose

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The common language that is spoken. Regular literature like short stories

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protagonist

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The hero or central character of a literary work.

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refrain

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To stop one's self from doing something

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repetition

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The repeeting of consonant sounds over and over

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rhythm

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Recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllables at equal intervals, similar to meter.

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setting

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The time and place in which a story unfolds.

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stanza

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A major subdivision in a poem.

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symbol

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A device in literature where and object represent another object or idea.