NWEA Vocabulary 13-24

Word Play

• Elements of story: Plot

• A short moral story

• Puns and Alliteration

• Playing with quotes

Allusion

• A reference to a character, place, another piece of literature, etc

• A reference book

• A play on words

• All knowing

Characterization

• STEAL

• Characters in a narrative

• Setting of a narrative

• Plot of a narrative

Extended Metaphor

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Comparing two things without using like or as

• Comparing two things continued beyond the first point of comparison.

Homophone

• To, too, two

• Run, sprint, race

• Run, dawdle, stay

Oxymoron

• Bittersweet

• Pattern in poetry

• All-knowing

• Conflict

Archetype

• Typical example

• A figure of speech

• All-knowing

• Fallacy

Iambic pentameter

• Meter in poetry, soft and heavy stressed syllable

• Sonnet

• Meter counting: example- Syllable count

Omniscient

• Third person point of view: All knowing narrator

• Third person point of view: limited

• Third person point of view: objective

• First person point of view

Paradox

• A statement that is contradicting but true

• A statement that is contradicting

• Make a "non-living" thing seem human

• The way the author feels about a topic