37. FORESHADOWING

1. 37. FORESHADOWING • Definition: The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot. • Example: Jaws – When the music comes on, viewers can tell something is about to happen. • Memorization Tip: Shadows – follow you. Foreshadowing tells you what is to follow in the plot.

2. 38. FREE VERSE • Definition: Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. • Example: These T-shirts we fold, into perfect white squares. • Memorization Tip:Free style- write poem any way you want.

3. 38. GENRE • Definition: The category that a work of literature is classified under. Five major genres in literature are nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and myth. • Example: Romeo & Juliet-Drama • Memorization Tip: Gen-generation-categories-types

4. 40. HAIKU • Japanese verse consisting of 3 lines. • HAIKU has 5 letters. It starts with 5 syllables. • KU rhymes with two. Add two, the next line has 7 syllables. • End back at 5 syllables.

5. 41.. HYPERBOLE • He was as HYPER as the Tasmanian Devil. • This bowl is SO hyper!!!! • Think exaggeration for comic effect.

6. 42. IAMBIC PENTAMETER • A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs. • An iamb is a unit of measure for specific poetry. • When you read a line of this poetry, the syllables are UNSTRESSED then STRESSED. but SOFT! what LIGHT through YON der WIN dow BREAKS. U / U / U / U / U / Unstressed STRESSED pattern 5 times in a line = iambic pentameter

7. 43. IDIOM • Think IDIOM = IDIOT • “That idiot was as dumb as a door knob.” • Expressions that are peculiar…

8. 44. IMAGERY • Language that appeals to the 5 senses. • CREATES IMAGES IN YOUR MIND.

9. 45. INVERSION • A VERSION of the writer’s word order. • They write however they want for THEIR purpose or to create a certain effect. • THINK YODA! • Hungry I am. • Wonderful Ms. Tran is. • Scholars you are. 

10. 46. IRONY • Contrast between expectations and reality. There are 3 kinds. • VERBAL IRONY: VERBAL = SPOKEN WORDS • SITUATIONAL IRONY: You’re in situations that you wouldn’t expect would happen. • DRAMATIC IRONY: You’re sitting in a theater watching a dramatic movie and you know what happens when the characters don’t.

11. 47. LYRIC POETRY • Think lyrics from a song. This poetry is musical and emotional. • The writer of a lyric poem uses words that express his state of mind, his perceptions, or his feelings.    • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.

12. 48. METAPHOR • A comparison FOR 2 unlike things without the words like, than, as, or resembles. • THINK ABOUT THIS MATH EQUATION: METAPHOR (4) TWO (2) = 2 unlike things being compared

13. 49. METER • Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. • Ways people read poetry –they emphasize certain syllables • Think meter …measure…way to measure syllables.

14. 50. MOOD • Think moody = Feeling something? • The feeling a story evokes!

15. 51. MYTH • Story based in a particular culture. • Think mythical creatures. • Think Lochness monster! • Think Big Foot! • Think werewolves!

16. 52. NARRATION • A type of writing where the speaker tells what happens. • Think narrator who tells a story.

17. 53. NARRATOR • Voice telling a story/ Point of view. • 1st person • Omniscient • Third person limited

18. 54. Non-Fiction • Writing that deals with real people, real things, real events, and real places. • Think NON-FICTION NOT-FAKE

19. 55. NOVEL • Fictional prose narrative usually consisting of more than 50,000 words. • WHAT A NOVELTY! HOW GRAND! WHAT A LONG STORY!

20. 56. ONOMATOPOEIA • ONO = AWW NO!!! • SOUNDS. SOUNDS. SOUNDS!!!

21. 57. PARADOX • PARA= not normal, strange, wondering • “The Gift of the Magi” – Della and Jim are the richest couple on earth. (rich in love but not in money) • Nobody goes to that restaurant, it's too crowded. • Don't go near the water until you've learned to swim. • The man who wrote such a stupid sentence cannot write at all. • If you get this message, call me; if you don't, then don't worry about it.

22. 58. PARALLELISM • Repetition of words or phrases or sentences that have the same GRAMMATICAL structure “I came, I saw, I conquered.” – Julius Caesar

23. 59. PERSONA • Mask or voice assumed by the writer • The author takes on another PERSON’s view point

24. 60. Personification • A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. • PERSON = HUMAN • You are making something nonhuman HUMAN. • The wind whispers.

25. 61. Plot • Series of related events that make up a story or drama. • Plot = think of a chain. All of these events link together.

26. 62. Poetry • KEY WORDS: rhythmic, uses figurative language and imagery to appeal to a reader’s emotions and imagination. • Ex. Legal Alien • “A handy token sliding back and forth between the fringes of both worlds.”

27. 63. POINT OF VIEW • Omniscient = all-knowing (OMMMM = sounds like a prayer…God-Like…knows everything!) • 1st person = 1st person pronoun “I” (Think 1 looks like I) • 3rd person = Third person pronouns He, she, they, it (Number 3 rhymes with HE, SHE) • Vantage POINT = POINT of VIEW

28. 64.PROTAGONIST • Main character • PRO = YES the character you are rooting for.

29. 65. PUN • Play on multiple meanings of words. • Pun rhymes with FUN. Think funny jokes. • How do you make a tissue dance? You put a BOOGIE in it. Boogie – Booger Boogie – Dance

30. 66. REFRAIN • Repeated words. • “Hey, hey, HEY.” • This phrase is repeated throughout his song. Think REfrain = REpeat

31. 67. RHYME • Repetition of sounds that are similar. • End rhyme = rhyme at the END of the line Ms. Tran’s scholars will score 858, This will make our school so great. • Internal rhyme = rhyme INSIDE the line Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary

32. 68. RYTHYM • Think rhythm, think music. MUSICAL QUALITY in language.

33. 69. SATIRE • SATIRE – PUT SOMETHING UNDER FIRE (“put on blast”) • Making fun of something 

34. 70. SCENE DESIGN • SCENE in a PLAY. • What sets, lights, costumes, and props do they use?

35. 71. Setting • Where a story is SET. • The real HOMS  • “windows that can’t breathe” • “swollen door”

36. 72. SHORT STORY • LOOK FOR THE WORD SHORT in the answer choices, and you’ve got the right answer. You’re welcome.

37. 73. SIMILE • A comparison between 2 unlike things USING the words like, as, than, or resembles. • My scholars are as bright as the sun.

38. 74. SOLILOQUY • LONG speech given by a character alone by themselves. • SOLO = alone • SOLOlilquy…

39. 75. SONNET • Think of a woman who had 14 sons. • She wrote a 14 line poem about how she had a net of sons.

40. 76. SPEAKER • Voice talking to us in a poem. • You hear a voice over the SPEAKER. • “Legal Alien” = voice of a Mexican American who is lost in her culture.

41. 77. STANZA • GROUP OF CONSECUTIVE LINES IN A POEM THAT FORM A SINGLE UNIT. • Think STANZA, STANDS ALONE • The chunks of a poem.

42. 78. STYLE • PARTICULAR WAY AN AUTHOR USES LANGUAGE. • Just like YOU have a fashion style to wear clothes your way, authors use language in different ways to create style. • Edgar Allan Poe = scary, moody, emotional, twisted = represented through his repetition and varies short and long sentences.

43. 79. SUSPENSE • ANXIETY the reader feels about the reading. • SUSPENSE…what events will COMMENCE?! • Someone thinks you’re a suspect for a murder..you get NERVOUS...you get ANXIETY!!

44. 80. SYMBOL • SYMBOL is SOMETHING that STANDS for SOMETHING

45. 81. TALL TALE • That mountain is SO tall and SO far. • A tale that is exaggerated and far-fetched (unbelievable). • Paul Bunyan : giant, tall lumberjack

46. 82. THEME • CENTRAL IDEA OF A WORK. • Usually a phrase *Love conquers all. *War tears people apart.

47. 83. TONE • Attitude a writer has towards a subject. • Think of your mother saying, “WATCH THAT TONE OF VOICE YOUNG LADY…”

48. 84. TRAGEDY • UNHAPPY ENDING • OPPOSITE OF COMEDY.

49. 85. VOICE • Distinctive use of language in a text. • The speaker may be a mother and her voice is motherly, nurturing, caring, and loving. • The author uses specific words (language) to create the character of the mother. • “Honey…” “M’am”

50. Term # 86. ARGUMENT • Definition: a series of statements in a text designed to convince us of something • Example: Persuasive Essay – you argue your opinion • Memorization Tip: You get into an arGUMent with your teacher on why you should be able to chew GUM in class.