Literacy Exam: March 11th and 12th Vocabulary, Part 1
Alliteration repetition of initial or beginning consonant sounds.
Allusion Is a reference to something in literature, history, or culture. Egyptian Queen
Anachronism Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.
Anaphora Is the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase usually at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, paragraphs.
Archetype the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies.
Aside Is a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
Autobiography Is a history of a person’s life written or told by that person.
Biography Is a written account of another person’s life.
Cinquain A five line stanza of syllabic verse with respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.
Concrete Information Factual material from the text.
Consonance Repetition of two or more consonant sounds in a group of words or line of poetry.
Couplet A pair of rhyming verse lines.
Descriptive Writing Provides details about an object, place, or person purposefully to make the experience depicted come alive for the reader.
Dialogue Conversation between two or more people in a play, novel, short story, etc.
Discourse Purposeful communication between people.
Disinformation Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency for the purpose of influencing public opinion or the government in another nation.
Dramatic Irony Is when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
Epic Poem A lyric poem, usually long, on a serious subject and written in a dignified language.
Expository Text A form of writing intended to set forth or explain.
Fantasy Is imaginative or fanciful work that deals especially with supernatural or unnatural events or characters.
Fiction Creative Literature that is invented or imagined, not true
First Person Point of View The POV that uses “I”
Free Verse Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
Genre A form or style of writing such as narrative (a story), informative (a report), or functional (instructions).
Hyperbole Deliberate exaggeration for effect
Idiom A phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. “I lost my head” “Quit beating around the bush”.
Info-graphics Information conveyed by graphic elements, including charts, graphs, etc. Often contained in print media.
Irony When you expect one thing and get another instead
Limericks Fixed form of humorous or nonsense verse with rhyme scheme of aaba.
Limited Omniscient Point of View POV where the author tells the story using third person POV, but limiting himself to complete knowledge of one character.
Lyric Poem A short poem of songlike quality that expresses personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker.
QUIZ ON FRIDAY You will be quizzed over these terms on Friday!