English Exam
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- adverbs
- modifies verb, adjective, or other adverbs
- appositives
- a noun or pronoun placed beside another noun or pronoun to identify or describe it
- setting
- environment and time period of a story
- coordinating conjunctions
- join words or groups of words that are used in the same way/ FANBOYS
- protagonist
- the character with whom we sympathize
- dependent clause
- cannot stand alone as a sentence because it fails to express a complete thought
- end rhyme
- rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry
- metaphor
- direct comparison
- oxymoron
- a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, ex. hot ice, hurry slowly
- end stop/ enjambment
- the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break
- commas
- generally used to seperate words or groups of words so that the meaning of a sentence is clear
- irony
- the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
- predicate nominatives
- a word or word group that is in the predicate and that identifies the subject or refers to it
- verbal irony
- contrast between what is said and what is meant
- intransitive verbs
- action not recieved by a direct object
- connotation
- secondary meaning of a word of expression, our meaning of a word
- noun
- person, place, thing, idea or emotion/ concrete or abstract
- play within the play
- in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Greek allusion
- when writing refers to Greek mythology
- compound predicate
- consists of two or more verbs that have the same subject
- paradox
- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
- theme
- universal message about life, not the moral of the story
- independent clause
- can stand alone as a sentence
- denotation
- the correct meaning of a word
- characterization
- portrayal or description of a character
- foil
- complements, ex. Hermia and Helena
- malapropism
- misuse of words to create a humorous effect, not appropriate
- conflict
- clash between opposing forces
- predicate adjectives
- an adjective that is in the predicated and that describes the subject
- verse
- a stanza, a line in a poem or song
- alliteration
- initial consonent repeated
- antagonist
- the character who opposes the pro
- flashback
- author returns to events prior to the present time in order to provide background information or details
- correlative conjunctions
- pairs of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way
- participles
- a verb form that can be used as an adjective
- simile
- comparison that uses "like" or "as"
- inference
- something that is inferred
- semicolon
- connects sentences that contain closely related ideas
- plot line
- conflict, inciting incident, rising action, climax, resolution
- suspense
- tension created because information is with held
- prepositional phrases
- the preposition, the object of the preposition, and any modifies of the object
- prepositions
- a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun
- conjunctions
- a word used to join words or groups
- adjectives
- modify nouns
- pun
- play on words and their variety of definitions to create humor
- transitive verbs
- action recieved by a direct object
- dramatic irony
- reader or character knows information that another character does not
- compound subject
- consists of two or more connected subjects that have the same verb
- direct objects
- a noun, pronoun, or word group that tells who or what reveives the action of the verb
- imagery
- the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
- rhetorical question
- a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply
- indirect objects
- a noun, pronoun, or word group that sometimes appears in sentences containing direct objects
- personification
- giving human qualities to an object
- quotation marks
- set off dialogue, quoted material, short stories, or definitions
- situational irony
- sudden unexpected twist in the plot
- subordinating conjunctions
- a word that shows the relationship between the adverb clause and the word or words that the clause modifies
- pronouns
- part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for
- red herring
- author delibrately misleads reader
- verbs
- action or linking
- foreshadowing
- author gives hints about events yet to occur