IB L&L Vocabulary 7-10 Study

onomatopoeia

• A literary device that indicates a word that sounds like what it refers to or describes.
• The repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking. This device influences the grammatical structure of sentences but can also impact the meaning of thoughts and ideas being presented.
• ______ is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story. Writers use ______s to perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line.
• A literary device that denotes a single line of poetry. The term can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry. In a song, ______ is a series of lyrics that tell the main story of the song and keep the action or thoughts moving forward.
• ______ are the building blocks of formal poetry, like paragraphs in a story or verses in a song.

parallelism

• The repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking. This device influences the grammatical structure of sentences but can also impact the meaning of thoughts and ideas being presented.
• ______ is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story. Writers use ______s to perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line.
• A literary device that denotes a single line of poetry. The term can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry. In a song, ______ is a series of lyrics that tell the main story of the song and keep the action or thoughts moving forward.
• ______ are the building blocks of formal poetry, like paragraphs in a story or verses in a song.
• A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.

character

• ______ is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story. Writers use ______s to perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line.
• A literary device that denotes a single line of poetry. The term can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry. In a song, ______ is a series of lyrics that tell the main story of the song and keep the action or thoughts moving forward.
• ______ are the building blocks of formal poetry, like paragraphs in a story or verses in a song.
• A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
• when a certain phrase or word is repeated at the end of sentences or clauses that follow each other

verse

• A literary device that denotes a single line of poetry. The term can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry. In a song, ______ is a series of lyrics that tell the main story of the song and keep the action or thoughts moving forward.
• ______ are the building blocks of formal poetry, like paragraphs in a story or verses in a song.
• A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
• when a certain phrase or word is repeated at the end of sentences or clauses that follow each other
• used to draw emphasis through extreme exaggeration

stanza

• ______ are the building blocks of formal poetry, like paragraphs in a story or verses in a song.
• A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
• when a certain phrase or word is repeated at the end of sentences or clauses that follow each other
• used to draw emphasis through extreme exaggeration
• in which a speaker or writer communicates a message directly to another individual or group of individuals

personification

• A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
• when a certain phrase or word is repeated at the end of sentences or clauses that follow each other
• used to draw emphasis through extreme exaggeration
• in which a speaker or writer communicates a message directly to another individual or group of individuals
• a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from the limitations of a regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.

epistrophe

• when a certain phrase or word is repeated at the end of sentences or clauses that follow each other
• used to draw emphasis through extreme exaggeration
• in which a speaker or writer communicates a message directly to another individual or group of individuals
• a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from the limitations of a regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
• the voice that speaks behind the scene. In fact, it is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer’s feelings or situation.

hyperbole

• used to draw emphasis through extreme exaggeration
• in which a speaker or writer communicates a message directly to another individual or group of individuals
• a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from the limitations of a regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
• the voice that speaks behind the scene. In fact, it is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer’s feelings or situation.
• Words that are not a part of standard vocabulary or language, and which are used informally, are called “_____.”

direct address

• in which a speaker or writer communicates a message directly to another individual or group of individuals
• a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from the limitations of a regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
• the voice that speaks behind the scene. In fact, it is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer’s feelings or situation.
• Words that are not a part of standard vocabulary or language, and which are used informally, are called “_____.”
• Two rhyming words juxtaposed inside of the line, rather than at the end of the line.

free verse

• a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from the limitations of a regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
• the voice that speaks behind the scene. In fact, it is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer’s feelings or situation.
• Words that are not a part of standard vocabulary or language, and which are used informally, are called “_____.”
• Two rhyming words juxtaposed inside of the line, rather than at the end of the line.
• When the last syllables within a verse rhyme