English Sem 2 Vocab

Question 1

Prologue

Answer 1

An opening to a story that establishes the setting an gives background details and other misc. info

Question 2

Sonnet

Answer 2

• 14 line poem
• written in iambic pentameter
• ababcdcdefefgg
• 10 syllables in each line

Question 3

Soliloquy

Answer 3

A character relates his/her thoughts and feelings to him/herself and to the audience without addressing any other character(monologue)

Question 4

Aside

Answer 4

Dramatic device in which characters speak to the audience unheard by other characters

Question 5

Tragedy

Answer 5

Serious play in which chief character passes through a series of misfortune leading to a final devastating catastrophe

Question 6

Comedy

Answer 6

A play in which the characters manage to avert an impending disaster and have a happy ending

Question 7

Blank verse

Answer 7

Rhymed lines of 10 syllables

Question 8

Prose

Answer 8

Ordinary form of spoken and written language

Question 9

Irony

Answer 9

In general a discrepancy between expectation and reality. What you expect vs what happens

Question 10

Verbal irony

Answer 10

Statements that imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaning(sarcasm)

Question 11

Situational irony

Answer 11

Actions taken have an effect exactly opposite from what was intended

Question 12

Dramatic irony

Answer 12

When the audience knows an unwitting character is making a mistake, often these actions cause our guts to churn(horror movies)

Question 13

Pun

Answer 13

• a form of wordplay
• takes words that sound similar and plays on the difference to create a joke
• uses a word so it has more than 1 meaning

Question 14

Oxymorons

Answer 14

Figure of speech that combines conflicting terms to create something new
Ex. act natural

Question 15

Metaphors

Answer 15

Comparing to like things saying one thing is another

Ex. He has the heart of a lion, the meal was a rainbow of flavors

Question 16

Paradoxes

Answer 16

Self-contradictory statement

Ex. This statement is false

Question 17

Foil

Answer 17

A character who serves as a direct contrast to another character as a device to emphasize the qualities of the main character
Ex. Grinch vs Cindy Lou

Question 18

Foreshadowing

Answer 18

The use of hints/ clues to suggest what will happen later

Question 19

Similie

Answer 19

Comparison using like, as, than, or resembles

Question 20

Personification

Answer 20

• When a writer gives an animal or intimate object human traits
• Also called pathetic fallacy

Question 21

Slant rhyme

Answer 21

Something that sorta rhymes

Ex. breathing and believe in(Breakeven)