English Vocab - Exam
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- Protagonist
- good guy
- Antagonist
- bad guy
- Round
- Character given depth
- Flat
- Character... NOT given depth.
- Setting
- The time and place of a story
- Theme
- the main idea of a story
- suspense
- a tool used to make readers stay interested.
- foreshadowing
- hints of what MIGHT happen. Can be blatant, subtle, or misleading.
- Situational Irony
- expect something but the opposite occurs
- Verbal Irony
- Sarcasm. Ish.
- Dramatic Irony
- When everyone is in the loop but the person to whom the information concerns.
- Alliteration
- the repetition of the initial consonent sound in words near eachother.
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- connotative
- suggested meaning
- denotative
- dictionary definition
- free verse
- poetry without form
- metaphor
- comparison without an indicator
- onomatopeia
- a word describing a noise or sound
- personification
- giving non-persons person qualities
- simile
- comparison using words like "as" and "like"
- stanza
- paragraphs in a poem
- Symbol
- something concrete used to represent something abstract
- cinquain
- short, unrhymed poem; 22 syllabbles distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2
- haiku
- 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature
- Shape poetry
- poem taking on the shape of its subject
- tyburn
- six lines; 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9
- tanka
- five lines, 5, 7, 5, 7, 7
- sonnet
- 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a particular rhyming scheme
- quatrain
- four lines of verse with a specific rhyming scheme
- Medium
- One method of communication
- Media
- Two or more methods of communication
- Mass media
- two or more methods of communication used to reach the masses simultaneously.