English Flashcards

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What is a Simile?

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A comparison using like or as

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What is Personification?

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Giving an object human qualities

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What is an Alliteration?

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Words that begin with the same sound repeated within close proximity

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What is Sibilance?

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Repetition of “s” sounds within close proximity

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What is Consonance?

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Repetition of consonant sounds within close proximity

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What is Assonance?

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Repetition of vowel sounds within close proximity

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What is a Soliloquy?

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When a character speaks to him/herself and the audience

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What are Tragic Protagonists?

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Protagonists in a tragedy

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What is an Antagonist?

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An enemy of adversary

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What is an Extended Metaphor?

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A metaphor containing greater detail

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What is a monologue?

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A monologue is a long speech which is spoken by one person

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What is dramatic irony?

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Something said by the character that the audience understands but the characters don’t

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What is Unequited love?

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When you love someone but they don’t love you back

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What is hubris?

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Arrogant pride

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What is Impetuous

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To act quickly or suddenly without thinking or being careful

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What is Volatile?

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A situation that is volatile is likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly

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What is a semantic field?

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A group of words.
Examples can be in football with ‘corner’,’ ‘freekick’ and ‘yellow card’.

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Isolation

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The process or fact of isolating or being isolated. (Being alone / apart
from others.

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Loneliness

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Sadness because one has no friends or company.

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Racism

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Racism is the belief that people of some races are inferior to others, and
the behaviour which is the result of this belief.

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Segregation

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The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

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Nomadic

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A person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or
better living conditions.

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Cyclical

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Occurring in cycles; recurrent.

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Hierarchy

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A system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked
according to relative status or authority.

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Marginalisation
To marginalize a group of people means to make them feel isolated and unimportant.
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American Dream
The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
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The Great Depression
A long and severe recession in an economy or market.
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The Dust Bowl
An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially because of drought or unsuitable farming practice.
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Adjective
A word used to describe a noun
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Adverb
A word used to describe a verb
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Verb
A doing word
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Noun
An object, place or person
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Pronoun
Words used to replace nouns
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Determiner
Words that come before a noun