Unit 3 Springboard Vocabulary

The overall attitude of a piece of writing.

• tone

• mood

• motif

• voice

Refers to the personality of the speaker.

• rhyme scheme

• mood

• voice

• tone

a person of lower rank, to make something less important

• venerable

• meter

• dependent

• subordinate

Is an interruption in the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past

• cynically

• flashback

• motif

• foreshadowing

 

Is the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

• flashback

• poetry

• foreshadowing

• meter

A recurring element, image, or idea that has symbolic significance in a work of literature

• symbol

• motif

• rhyme scheme

• meter

 

The overall feeling or emotion of a story.

• tone

• mood

• voice

• inflection

Refers to a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

• meter

• poem

• rhyme scheme

• ABABAB

A poem’s pattern of rhyming words.  

• end rhyme

• poetry

• meter

• rhyme scheme

distrusting or disparaging the motives of others

• cynically

• raucous

• insolently

• venerable