English 2: Vocab for 9/11

• Allusion: a historical or cultural reference to something outside the piece of literature
• Ambiguity: uncertainty of intended meaning
• Atmosphere: mood, ambience, or emotional tone of a text
• Cacophony:  the use of words and phrases that imply strong, harsh sounds within the phrase (these words have jarring and dissonant sounds that create a disturbing, objectionable atmosphere)
• Characterization: creating and establishing specific individuals (characters) in a story, poem, or film
• Conflict: a resistance the protagonist of the story finds in achieving his aims or dreams
• Connotation: secondary or associated meanings for a word (contextual usage sometimes)
• Denotation: dictionary definition of a word