ELA VOCAB

Alliteration

• a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor

• The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound

• The tension felt when the audience knows something the characters do not

• a short addition at the end of a literary work, often dealing with the future of the characters

Allusion

• A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thinG

• a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite

• a sermon, or a moralistic lecture

• A complex lyric poem that develops a serious and dignified theme.  Odes appeal to the imagination and intellect, and many commemorate events or praise people or elements of nature

a short speech directed to the audience, or another character, that is not heard by the other characters on stage

• Rhyme

• Elegy

• Paradox

• Aside

The repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words

• Hamartia

• Assonance

• Tragic Flaw

• Elegy

Catharsis

• Release of emotion (pity and fear) from the audience’s perspective

• An accepted phrase or expression having a meaning different from the literal

• A complex lyric poem that develops a serious and dignified theme.  Odes appeal to the imagination and intellect, and many commemorate events or praise people or elements of nature

• A recurring and dominant subject or idea

Comic Relief

• A funny moment, speech, or character used to provide a break from the emotional intensity or seriousness of a scene

• An introductory section of a literary work that gives the audience the necessary background and detail to understand the

  story

• The way a (work of art) is influenced by the society, community, and\or historical time period in which it

  is produced

• A funny moment, speech, or character used to provide a break from the emotional intensity or seriousness of a scene

a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor

• Litotes

• Alliteration

• Meter

• Conceit

The repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect

• Ode

• Consonance

• Soliloquy

• Foil

Couplet

• A speech, in drama, in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud. Generally, the character is on stage alone, not speaking to other characters and perhaps not even consciously addressing an audience

• A rhymed pair of lines written in any rhythmic pattern

• A character with traits that make the audience like them, but who eventually experience ruin or disaster due to their

  personality

• a formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme

Dialogue

• A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem. 

• conversation between two or more people

• The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound

• All forms of written or spoken expression that are not in verse (a.k.a. poetry)