English 11 Reading VDOE SOL Vocabulary

A novel about a person, written by someone else

• Biography

• analogy

• autobiography

• narrative

Comparison between two things or concepts

• hyperbole

• personification

• analogy

• oxymoron

Author's message about life or human nature throughout a story

• Plot

• Theme

• Setting

• Tone

pattern of events in a story

• plot

• Theme

• setting

• characterization

Place and time of the story

• background

• mood

• tone

• setting

Comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Extreme exaggeration. Example: She laughed her head off

• understatement

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Giving human characteristics to non-human objects

• personification

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• paradox

two words used together that are opposite in meaning. Example: "Pretty ugly" , "icy hot"

• paradox

• oxymoron

• simile

• metaphor

Clues or hints at coming events in a story

• personification

• foreshadow

• setting

• tone