Vocabulary Practice 4/30

Vocabulary Practice:

Try to match the words with the definition. It is okay if you cannot get them right away, go back and look up the words that you do not know. Or deduct which ones they are after finding the rest of the answers.

1. Allegory              
2. Connotative
3. Dialogue
4. Drama
5. Explicit
6. Figurative
7. Flashback
8. Genre
9. Hero
10. Humor
11. Implicit
12. Irony
13. Literal
14. Perspective
15. Script
16. Setting
17. Theme
18. Monologue
19. Symbolism
20. Tone


a. The practice of investing things with symbolic meaning.
b. The overall meaning or implied meaning or an artwork, conversation, film, etc.
c. A way of thinking about situations or topics etc.
d. Limited to the exact or “real” meaning of a word or text.
e. Implied though not directly expressed.
f. Someone who fights for a cause. Someone who you enjoy reading about in a book, or watching in a movie.
g. A transition to an earlier event of scene that interrupts the normal plot of a story.
h. A kind of literary or artistic work.
i. Precisely or clearly expressed in a work.
j. Not to be taking literally (used of the meanings of words or text).
k. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
l. A conversation between two persons
m. Having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what something already means.
n. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
o. Confusion between what might be expected and what actually occurs.
p. The physical position of something.
q. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).
r. A (usually long) dramatic speech made by a single actor or character.
s. A message that has the power to evoke laughter.
t. Something written by hand (usually for films and television).