Final 2 Flashcards

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Inanimate

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Adj
Not alive, showing no sign of life

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2
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Infuse

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Fill/soak

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3
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Anachronism

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Old fashioned

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4
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Repercussion

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An unwelcome unintended consequence of an event or action

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5
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Personal narrative

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A type of writing, in which an author tells a true story from their own life
Focuses on just a few events

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6
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Metaphors and similes

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Are tools, the writer uses to compare
Simile uses the words like or as
Metaphor is not

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7
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Summary of a text

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  • Start with the title of the text in the authors name
  • Use the present tense
    -Keep it short
    -Do not inject your own opinions, ideas or interpretations
    -If you must include some of the original text to use, quotation marks
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8
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Denotation

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Is the literal meaning of the word

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9
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Connotation

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Refers to the feelings associated with the word
Nuance

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10
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Apastrophe

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Is a direct address to an inanimate thing or an absent person in capable of responding
Ex. Oh mighty sea spare us your lessons today!

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11
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Impalpable

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Unable to be felt by touch

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12
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Innocuous

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Not harmful or offensive

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13
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Illusory

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Based on allusion; not real

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14
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Rhetorical device

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Is a language that aims to produce a strong effect on readers or an audience

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15
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Migrate

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Move from one region or habitat to a another

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16
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Modify

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Make partial or minor changes to

17
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Requisite

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Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations

18
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Reiterate

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Say something again, or a number of times typically for emphasis or clarity

19
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Implication

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The conclusion that can be drawn from some thing, although it is not, explicitly stated

20
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Rhetorical questions

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To develop ideas, build support for her positions, and structure her essay

21
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amnesia

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A partial or total loss of memory

22
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Cognitive

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The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses

23
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Correspondent

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A person employed to report for newspaper broadcasting organization

24
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Covetous

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Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else

25
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Dejected

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Sad and depressed; dispirited

26
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Facet

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One side of some thing many sided
A particular aspect or feature of some thing

27
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Inevitable

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Certain to happen unavoidable

28
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Leaden

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Dull, heavy, or slow
Of the color of lead; dull grey

29
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Pathological

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Involving or caused by a physical or mental disease

30
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Prerequisite

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A thing that is required as a prior condition for some thing else to happen or exist

31
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Prodigy

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A young person with exceptional qualities or abilities

32
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Rapture

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A feeling of intense pleasure or joy

33
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Omniscient narrator

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Knows what all of the characters are thinking

34
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Sentence fragment

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Spice up previous sentence informal style

35
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Rhetorical questions

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Forces audience to think and engage in text