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English 1 final exam rev. Flashcards

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pernicious

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causing great injury or ruin

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adversary

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one who opposes or fights against another

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argumenting

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making larger, increasing or enlarging

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grievance

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injusto or complaint

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oppression

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feeling of being weighted down with worries or problem

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exile

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to send away, banish

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transgression

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an act that breaks a law, rule, or code of conduct, wrongdoing

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procure

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to get or obtain, usually with great care, or effort

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predominant

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of or having the stronger influence or power

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intercession

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act of pleading on another’s behalf.

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sallow

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a sickly, pale, yellow hue or complection

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eloquence

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a graceful and persuasive speech

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lamentable

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distressing, unsatisfactory, causing sadness or sorrow

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unwieldy

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awkward or clumsy

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gallant

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brave and noble

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fray

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a noisy fight

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martial

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related to the military, warlike

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fickle

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easily changed or affected

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pensive

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deeply thoughtful

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vial

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a small bottle containing medicine or other liquids

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disperse

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to spread apart, to break up and scatter in all directions

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wayward

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difficult to control, headstrong or stubborn

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dismal

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causing gloom or misery

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loathsome

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disgusting or detestable, extremely unlikable

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remnants

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whatever is left over, remainders

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penury

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extreme poverty

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enjoined

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instructed, ordered, or urged to do something

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haughty

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acting superior to others; arrogant

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ambiguities

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statements or events whose meanings are unclear

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sourge

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instrument for inflicting punishment

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aside

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a brief remark made directly to the audience which reveals a character’s private thought(s)

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oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

33
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syntax

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the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in language

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iamb

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poetic foot consisting of one stressed and one unstressed syllable

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iambic pentameter

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five iambs used to create a live of verse

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hyperbole

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an exaggerated statement or claim NOT meant to be taken literally

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situational irony

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literary device when actions or events have the opposite result form what is intended or expected

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simile

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figure of speech comparing one thing with another using the words like or as

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monolougue

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a lengthy, extended speech delivered by a character to characters present onstage

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sonnet

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a poem of fourteen lines following a strict rhyme scheme and dramatic change in lines 9 or 13

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pun

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a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or words which sound alike but have different meanings

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soliloquy

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a speech in which a character is alone onstage and reveals his or her inner thoughts to the audience

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quatrain

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a stanza of four lines; usually with alternating lines

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allusion

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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it specifically

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verbal irony

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speaker says one thing but means another, sarcasm

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metaphor

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figure of speech, a thing regarded as representative of symbolic of something else, abstract

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chorus

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a group of actors who described and commented upon the main action of a play with song, dance, and recitation

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Foil

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a character used as contrast/opposite to another character

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diction

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the style of enuncitation

50
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onomatopeia

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the formation of a word from a sound

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couplet

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two lines of rhyming verse

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paradox

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self-contradictory statement or proposition that is true

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dramatic irony

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audience understanding the outcome of a situation but characters unaware of what’s happening

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personificaiton

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nonhuman characteristics to a non human (ex: object)

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common noun

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common words that name person, place or thing or idea

ex; cat

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proper noun

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name used for individual person, place or thing

ex; Target

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personal pronoun

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word that replaces a noun, associated with first person, second or third person
ex; she

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possessive pronoun

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word that replaces noun, shows “ownership”

ex; his

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verb

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word that shows action, state of being, or occurance

ex; was

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adjetive

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word that describes a noun, or noun phras

ex; joyful

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adverb

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word that conveys info about how, when, where and to what extent something happens, modifies verb
ex; somewhere

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preposition

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word that provides info such as time, directory, or other place
ex; on

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appositive phrases

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phrase that provides more info about noun

ex; my friend Michael or Michael, my friend,

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prepositional phrase

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phrase that begins with a preposition and clarifies time, place or direction
ex; on the table

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participle phrase

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phrase that begins with a participle and modifies a noun by adding description
ex; clogged the drain

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simple sentence

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a sentence with only one clause

ex; My cat ran away.

67
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compound sentence

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a sentence with more that one subject an/or predicate; two clauses are connected with a comma + FANBOYS
ex; David’s cat ran across the street, but couldn’t jump over the fence

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complex sentence

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a sentence with an independent and dependent clause connected by AAAWWUBBIS
ex; Although the paper woth gray, it was originally white.

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compound-complex sentence

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a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
ex; Although Mitchell prefers watching romantic films, he rented the lattes spy thriller, as he enjoyed the trailer very much.

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Subordinating conjunctions

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a conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause AAAWWUBBIS- after, although, as, when , while, until, because, before, if, since

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Coordinating conjunctions

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words used to connnect clauses, or items in a list- FANBOYS- for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

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