𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 (𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞)

• Symbolism

  when an image is used to represent something else.
• Imagery


  the use of visually descriptive, figurative or sensory language
• Extended metaphor


  a metaphor that extends through multiple lines, sentences or paragraphs in a piece of writing
• Racial segregation

  separation according to races
• Epigraph

  a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter suggesting its theme
• Semantic field


  words referring to a common idea/topic
• Gender norms

  behaviors/ideas associated with specific genders
• Cantankerous

  argumentative
• illegitimate


  to be born out of wedlock (marriage)
• soliloquy


  an actor speaking their thoughts aloud
• dramatic irony


  when the audience knows something that the characters do not
• subvert


  to go against and undermine
• conform


  to agree with and comply