Write each word on a separate index card Alliteration Assonance Audience Comedy Context Clues Dialogue Drama Foreshadowing Hyperbole Imagery Memoir Metaphor Mood Onomatopoeia Personification First person point of view Third person omniscient point of view Third person limited point of view Rhyme scheme Sonnet Stanza Stereotype Symbol Tone

Check your definitions Alliteration - the repetition of initial sounds (ex. Tic Tac Toe) Assonance - the VOWEL sounds repeat (ex. Mad hatter) Audience – the people who encounter a work of art Comedy – in general, a story that ends happily Context Clues – using the words and phrases around an unknown word to infer its meaning Dialogue - conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie Drama – a story that is written as a play Foreshadowing – clues that hint at what is going to happen next Hyperbole – intentionally exaggerated figure of speech Imagery - word pictures, using words to create a “virtual reality”for the reader. The poet wants you to be able to see, hear, feel, taste and smell what they are talking about. Memoir – an autobiography focused on only one time or event Metaphor - figure of speech that implies comparisons

Mood - the emotional atmosphere produced by an author’s use of language Onomatopoeia - the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (ex. cuckoo, sizzle) Personification - figure of speech that applies human characteristics to non-human objects First person point of view - the narrator is a character in the story and uses first person pronouns such as I, me, and we. Third person omniscient point of view - “All knowing”– one character sees all, hears all, and knows all Third person limited point of view – the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character Rhyme scheme - the pattern of rhyme used in a poem, generally indicated by matching lowercase letters to show which lines rhyme Sonnet – a 14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter Stanza - the paragraphs a poem is divided into Stereotype – a character who conforms to preconceived ideas about a group or type of person Symbol – a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for iteself and for something beyond itself. Tone – the author’s attitude toward his subject