Vocabulary

Eng IIIUnit One: Emerging Modernism

Modernism

• Pg 1384• Literary movement • Between the 2 World Wars (1914-1945)• Works: high degree of experimentation• Characters: alienated people searching

unsuccessfully for meaning and love in their lives

Alienation

• Emotional isolation

Theme

• Pg 1394• Recurring element in literature• Central idea• Not obvious: must be inferred• Different readers can find different themes

Irony

• Pg 1382• Contrast between appearance and reality 3 types:

1. situational: difference in what is expected to happen and what does. 2. dramatic: when readers know more about a situation or character in a story than the characters do. 3. verbal: when someone states one thing but means another.

Symbols

• Pg 1393• Person, place, or object that has a concrete

meaning in itself and also stands for something beyond itself, such as an idea or feeling.

Stream of Consciousness

• Pg 1392• Technique developed by modernist writers• Presents flow of a character’s seemingly

unconnected thoughts, responses, and sensations.

marrow

• Bone marrow• The inmost, choicest, or essential part

Diction

• A writer or speakers choice of words is called diction. • Diction includes BOTH1. Vocabulary: individual words2. Syntax: order or arrangement of the words

Diction can be: Formal/informal

Technical/commonAbstract/concrete

Figurative Language

• Pg 1379• Language that communicates ideas beyond

literal meaning of words. • Figurative Language can make descriptions

unfamiliar or difficult ideas easier to understand.

• Include: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole.

Simile

• Pg 1391• Figure of speech that compares two things

using like or as. • Ex:

Johnny is as stubborn as a mule.

Metaphor

• Pg 1384• Figure of speech that compares two things that

have something in common. • Unlike similes, metaphors do not use the words like or as. Metaphors made comparisons directly.

• Ex: America is a melting pot.

Don’t be such a pig. Leave some for the rest of us.

Personification

• Pg 1387• Figure of speech in which an object, animal, or

idea is given human characteristics. • Ex:

The wind spoke her name.

Hyperbole

• Pg 1381• Figure of speech in which the truth is

exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect.

• Exaggeration for effect.

Example: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

rhetoric

• The art or study of using language effectively or persuasively.

Vocabulary Test II

• November 15th

Bellwork November 15th

• You have 5 minutes to study for your Vocabulary Test.