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English Terms 1 Flashcards

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Accent

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Where the stress is in a syllable

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Allegory:

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A story that is symbolic but restricted to a single meaning

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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Allusion

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A reference to something or someone from history or literature

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Ambiguity:

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Allows for multiple interpretations

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Analogy

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A comparison of two different things that are similar in some wa

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Anapest

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Unstressed/unstressed/stressed

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Anaphora

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Repetition of words at the beginning of consecutive lines

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Anastrophe:

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Words or phrases that are said backwards or mixed up

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Anecdote

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A brief story

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Antagonist

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The character that opposes the protagonist, often the negative force

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Aphorism

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A concise statement that expresses general truth

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Apostrophe

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Speaking to someone who is absent or something nonhuman

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14
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Archetyp

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A universal symbol that crosses time and space

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Aside

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Speech directed to the audience and unheard by other characters

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Assonance:

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Repetition of a vowel sound

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Attitude

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The feeling and position the author takes

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Ballad:

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narrative poem/song

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19
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Bathos

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Insincere or overly sentimental

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Blank Verse:

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Cacophony:

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Language that is discordant or difficult to say; noisy language

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Cadence

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The rhythmic flow of sound or words

23
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Caesura

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Pause separating phrases within lines of poetry

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Canonized:

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To sanction or approve a text, to place as “scripture”

25
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Canto

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One of the divisions of a long poem

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Caricature

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A ludicrous exaggeration of a person or thing

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Carpe Diem

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Seize the day

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Catharsis

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Release of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy

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Chiasmus

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A statement of two parts where the second part is reversed

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Classicism

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Characteristics of literature/art from ancient Greece/Rome

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Comedy

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A work intended to amuse the audience with no terrible disaster

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Conceit

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A clever, extended metaphor

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Conflict

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A struggle within the plot between opposing forces

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Connotation

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Implied definition of a word

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds, not at the beginning of words

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Context

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Parts of a statement that precede or follow a statement, influencing its meaning

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Convention:

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A characteristic in literature that has become accepted and understood as common practice

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Couplet:

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and share a meter

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Crisis/Climax

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Turning point in a story

40
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Dactylic

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Stressed/unstressed/unstressed

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Denotation:

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Dictionary definition of a word

42
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Denouement

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“Unraveling,” plot resolution

43
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Dialogue

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Verbal exchange between characters

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Diction

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Word Choice

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Colloquial:

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Local Speech

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Formal

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In accordance with the usual requirements and customs

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Informal

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Not according to prescribed, official, or customary way

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Slang:

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Informal vocab, idioms

49
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Didactic

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Intended for instruction, often to a fault

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Digression

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A passage that deviates from the central point or theme

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Double Rhyme

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A rhyme of two syllables where the second is unstressed

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Dramatic Irony:

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Irony that the audience understands that the characters don’t

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Dramatic Monologue

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Lyric poem where a character addresses a silent audience imagined to be present

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