English Final
Terms
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- onomatopoeia
- use of words or phrases that sound like the things they are
- prose
- all writing that is now drama or poetry
- sermon
- example of non-fiction & public records
- ode
- lyric poem on serious theme
- imagery
- language that creates a concrete representation of object or exerience
- dramas
- literature enacted in front of an audience by ppl who play parts of character
- articles
- brief work of non-fiction on a specific topic
- public records
- speeches, sermons, contracts, deeds, constitution, laws
- foot
- unit of rhythm consisting of stongly & weakly stressed syllables
- free verse
- poetry that avoids use of rhyme
- essays
- brief work of prose non-fiction
- process writing
- presents the steps in a process or gives reader direction on how to do something
- internal rhyme
- rhyming words within lines
- lyric poetry
- musical verse that expresses motion
- tone
- emotional attitude toward the reader or subject
- assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds in stessed syllables that end w/ different sounds
- personal essay
- short work of non-fiction prose on a single topic related to life or interests of the writer
- narration
- type of writing that tells a story, or describes events most often using time or chronological order as a way or organization
- rhyme
- repetition of sounds at the end of words
- rhythm
- pattern of beats or stresses in a line of verse or prose
- speeches
- public records
- aim
- purpose
- haiku
- poem containing five syllables (5,7,5)
- consonance
- kind of slant rhyme, constant sounds of two words that match
- sonnet
- 14 line poem
- histories
- provide accounts for past events
- autobiography
- story of a person's life written by that person
- stanza
- group of lines in a poem
- dramatic poetry
- monologue (single) dialogue (convo)
- similie
- comparison using like or as
- meter
- rhythmical pattern/stressed syllable
- elegaic lyric
- expresses a speakers feeling of loss
- alliteration
- repetition of initial constant sounds
- imagist poem
- represents a single vivid picture in words
- monologue
- one person dialogue
- personification
- figure of speech in which an idea, animal or thing described as a person
- nonfiction
- true facts/story
- biography
- story of a person's life written by another person
- dialogue
- conversation between two or more people
- dialect
- a versioin of a language spoken by the ppl of a particular place, time, or social group
- metaphor
- a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written as if it were another