Reading SOL Vocabulary #2

Irony

• a comparison that aims to explain a thing or idea by comparing it to something else. 

• the perspective of the narrator telling the story. First person “I”, second person “you”, third person “he, she, they”.

• the message or lesson of a story  

• exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule 

• when the opposite of what we expect is true  

Point of View

• a comparison that aims to explain a thing or idea by comparing it to something else. 

• the perspective of the narrator telling the story. First person “I”, second person “you”, third person “he, she, they”.

• the message or lesson of a story  

• exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule 

• when the opposite of what we expect is true  

Theme

• a comparison that aims to explain a thing or idea by comparing it to something else. 

• the perspective of the narrator telling the story. First person “I”, second person “you”, third person “he, she, they”.

• the message or lesson of a story  

• exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule 

• when the opposite of what we expect is true  

Satire

• a comparison that aims to explain a thing or idea by comparing it to something else. 

• the perspective of the narrator telling the story. First person “I”, second person “you”, third person “he, she, they”.

• the message or lesson of a story  

• exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule 

• when the opposite of what we expect is true  

Analogy

• a comparison that aims to explain a thing or idea by comparing it to something else. 

• the perspective of the narrator telling the story. First person “I”, second person “you”, third person “he, she, they”.

• the message or lesson of a story  

• exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule 

• when the opposite of what we expect is true  

Understatement

• when you say the opposite of what you mean (verbal irony) 

• when you use language to exaggerate your intended meaning (hyperbole) 

• downplaying a situation when the reader might imagine a more intense response 

• the repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking. 

Overstatement

• when you say the opposite of what you mean (verbal irony) 

• when you use language to exaggerate your intended meaning (hyperbole) 

• downplaying a situation when the reader might imagine a more intense response 

• the repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking. 

Sarcasm

• when you say the opposite of what you mean (verbal irony) 

• when you use language to exaggerate your intended meaning (hyperbole) 

• downplaying a situation when the reader might imagine a more intense response 

• the repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking. 

Parallelism

• when you say the opposite of what you mean (verbal irony) 

• when you use language to exaggerate your intended meaning (hyperbole) 

• downplaying a situation when the reader might imagine a more intense response 

• the repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking. 

Pun

• a joke that plays with the sound or meaning of words

• when someone presents a logical statement with false information (premises) and uses logic to present a conclusion that is wrong.  

• when the audience knows something the characters do not know