English Unit 3
Terms
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- Abridge
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To make shorter
S: shorten, condense, abbreviate
A: expand, enlarge, augment - Adherent
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A follower, supporter/attached, sticking to
S: Disciple
A: opponent, adversary, critic, detractor - Altercation
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an angry argument
S: Quarrel, dispute, squabble
A: agreement, accord - Cherubic
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resembling an angel portrayed as a little child w/ a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent
S: angelic, seraphic, beatific
A: impish, devilish, diabolic, fiendish - condone
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to pardon or overlook
S: ignore, wink at, turna blind eye to
A: Censure, condemn, disapprove, deprecate - dissent
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to disagree/disagreement
S: differ, dispute
A: agree, concur/ unanimity, harmony - eminent
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famous, outstanding, distinguished; projecting
S: illustrious, renowned
A: obscure, nameless, unsung, lowly, humble - Exorcise
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to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing or oppressive
S: expel, dispel - Fabricate
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to make, manufacture; to make up, invent
S: put together, devise, contrive, concoct
A: take apart, undo, destroy, demolish - Irate
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angry
S: incensed, infuriated,enranged, livid
A: calm, composed, cool, unruffled - Marauder
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a raider, plunderer
S: looter, pirate, freebooter - obesity
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excessive fatness
S: serious overweight, extreme corpulence
A: emaciation, guantness, scrawniness - pauper
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an extremely poor person
S: destute person
A: millionaire, tycoon - Pilfer
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to steal in small quantities
S: filch, rob, swipe, purloin - rift
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a split, break, breach
S: crack, fissure, gap, cleft
A: reconciliation - Semblance
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a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition
S: appearance, air, aura, veneer, facade
A: dissimilarity, contrast, total lack - surmount
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to overcome, rise above
S: conquer, triumph over
A: be vcanquished, be defeated, succumb to - terminate
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to bring to an end
S: conclude, finish, discontinue
A: begin, commence, initiate - trite
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commonplace; overused, stale
S: banal, hackneyed, corny
A: original, novel, fresh, innovative - usurp
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to seize and hold a position by force orw/o right
S: seize illegally, commandeer, supplant - climax
- the moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. it is also the peak of emotional response from a reador or spectator and usually the turning point in action. it usually follows or overlaps with the crisis, though some use the 2 terms synonymously.
- tone
- the author's feeling about a book's subject
- mood
- a feeling or emotion of the reader during a specific description, setting, or characteriztion to tell what sets the mood. it has to do with the atmosphere of the book.
- context
- a way for you to understand what a word means
- setting
- the time and place in which a story is held; physical and social context is used to create the atmosphere
- social context
- assuming things about people or relationships by events or dialouge or thoughts
- physical context
- assuming the setting based on the literature
- suspense
- the anxiety and anticipation of a reader or audience as to the outcome of a story. it usually occurs when danger is presented to a character with whom we have formed an attachment
- Story plot diagram
- introduction, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution/denouement
- Introduction
- beginning, mood, tone, characers, setting, etc.
- inciting moment
- one event that causes other major events to occur
- rising action
- events that lead to the climax
- fallinga ctno
- events taht occur as the result of the clmiax
- cresolution
- end, resolves character's ocnflict
- Irony
- the contrast between what is expected or what appears to be and what actually is
- irony of situation
- a happening opposite of what is expected/intended
- verbal irony
- contrast between what's said and meant
- dramatic irony
- the reader knows more than the character
- meter
- rhythm of a poem based on number of syllables in a line and their accents, described by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- alliteration
- initial sound of words are repeated in close succession
- assonance
- vowel in word matches one in nearby word, but diff. surrounding consonant sounds
- rhyme
- 2 words sound alike, vowel sound the same, initial consonant diff
- metaphor-
- comparison w.o like or as, identify one object or idea w. another
- simile
- comparison w. like or as, one concrete and one abstract element
- couplet
- a pair of rhyming verse lines usually of the same length
- dialouge
- spoken between characters
- drama
- perforances where actors impersonate ctions and speech of fictional or historic characters for entertainment
- exposition
- exposition or argument of a subject
- foreshadowing
- events that hint at future events
- monolouge
- extended speech delivered by one person to others or alond on stage, directed at the audience
- personification
- figure of speech whre animals, ideas, or inatimate objects are given the characterizations of a person
- plot
- patterns of events in a story
- pun
- an expression created by humor using to meanings of the same word
- soliloquy
- a dramatic speech delivered by one character alone on stage, directed at the audience, revealing of inner thoughts or feelings
- tragedy
- serious play representing a disastrous downfall of a protagonist
- oxymoron
- figure of speech that fuses two contradictory ideas
- double entendre
- word or expression capable of two interpretations, with one sexual
- allegory
- symbolic use of names or actions in order to make generalizations about mankind(stereotypes)
- allusion
- reference to a famous person, place, work of art, piece of literature, or event