ILTS ELA Content Exam 207 EXAM LATEST UPDATE
tone - ANSWER-the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. AUTHOR FEELS
close reading - ANSWER-describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text= up close look at literature
inference - ANS...
tone - ✔✔✔ANSWER-the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject
matter and audience. AUTHOR FEELS
close reading - ✔✔✔ANSWER-describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a
brief passage of a text= up close look at literature
inference - ✔✔✔ANSWER-steps in reasoning, moving from premises to
conclusions or using observation and background to reach logical conclusion= use
to find intended meaning
symbols - ✔✔✔ANSWER-sign that represents, stands for, or suggests another
idea, visual image, belief, action, or material entity
mood - ✔✔✔ANSWER-emotional state, or feeling you get while reading a story,
atmosphere of story HOW WE FEEL
metonmy - ✔✔✔ANSWER-figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called
not by its own name, but rather by a metonym, the name of something associated
in meaning with that thing or concept. ex: saying "kicks" instead of shoes
,contextual associations= part does not have to refer to the whole or vice versa
allusion - ✔✔✔ANSWER-figure of speech, indirect or glancing reference to
another work, person, place or event. ex: Professor is colder than Darth Vader
need to know what is being referenced, because reference is not explained
allegory - ✔✔✔ANSWER-literary device that is an extended metaphor
ex: Animal Farm
catharsis - ✔✔✔ANSWER-when literature provides strong emotional experiences
(emotions such as pity and fear) that ultimately result in a sense of purification
(renewal and restoration)
symbolic foreshadowing - ✔✔✔ANSWER-foreshadowing or guessing ahead
which is a literary device that authors use to hit at what is to come
litotes - ✔✔✔ANSWER-figure of speech that uses understatement to emphasize a
point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double
negatives for effect. ex: "She is not unfunny" instead of saying "She is funny"
tragedy - ✔✔✔ANSWER-form of drama based on human suffering that invokes
an accompanying catharsis or pleasures in audiences
ex: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet
, repetition - ✔✔✔ANSWER-the action of repeating something that has already
been said or written. an overlooked literary device, creates moods and develops
characters
understatement - ✔✔✔ANSWER-form of speech or disclosure which contains an
expression of lesser strength than what would be expected. ex: getting your arm cut
off and saying "Tis a scratch"
irony - ✔✔✔ANSWER-rhetorical device/literary technique that relies on the
difference between expression and outcome
verbal irony - ✔✔✔ANSWER-when speaker says opposite of what they mean=
sarcasm
dramatic irony - ✔✔✔ANSWER-playwright/novelist creates an ironic situation
that reader/viewer only knows about
ex: the wife thinks her husband is dead, but the audience/reader/viewer knows he is
still alive
situational irony - ✔✔✔ANSWER-when the exact opposite of what is meant to
happen, happens
ex: wife finds out her husband is dead and is relieved
simile - ✔✔✔ANSWER-A comparison using "like" or "as"
metaphor - ✔✔✔ANSWER-kind of analogy that uses figurative language
connecting one thing to another to highlight how they are alike= makes subject
equivalent to the thing it is being compared to
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