English 9 Final
Laura Farley
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- Prose
- ordinary form of writting language. No rhyme or meter. Opposite of poetry.
- Refrain
- line or group of lines repeated in poem or song.
- Subordinator
- subordinating conjunction. As, although, though, if, because, since, unless, whereas. Beginning or middle of independent clauses.
- Alliteration
- repetition og beginning sounds in 2 or more neighboring words. " Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
- Iambic Penatameter
- line that is 10 syllables long, accents on every 2nd syllable.
- Blank Verse
- verse without rhyme, usually in iambic pentameter.
- Trimeter
- three-foot line in verse, 6 syllables
- Participial Phrase
- phrases that begin with an "-ing" word
- Verse
- a synonym for poetry, " light verse" is comic.
- Poetry
- literature chiefly characterized by rhythmical qualities of language.
- Understatement
- when a thing is represented as less than it is.
- Idiom
- well known expressions that say one thing but mean another. "Don't have a cow."
- Simile
- figure of speech involvin a direct comparision between two unlike things and using words "like" or "as."
- Parallelism
- exists if a sentence includesa series of familiar part of speech. "The flag is red, white, and blue.
- Quatrain
- in verse, stanza of four lines.
- Relative Pronouns
- who, whom, which, that, whose, where
- Meter
- reptition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. Pattern of stresses in a line. Common meter is "iambic pentameter."
- Couplet
- two consecutive lines in verse that rhyme.
- Antagonist
- a person, idea, force, or set of circumstances in a literary work opposing a protagonist.
- Prepositional Phrase
- phrase that begins with a preposition.
- Phrase
- group of words lacking bothe subject and verb.
- Scanning
- marking verse to indicate which syllables are accented and which are light stressed.
- Monolouge
- relatively long speech or composition giving the words of one speaker. In drama it is heard by other characters.
- Dialogue
- written conversation between two or more characters.
- Trochaic
- Rhythm produced when stress is placed on odd-numbered syllables in a line of poetry.
- Independent Clause
- has subject and verb and can stand alone.
- Stanza
- line of verse set off from other groups by space
- Slant Rhyme
- refers to an end rhyme that is close, but not exact. ("Crowd & Bough")
- Appositive
- noun that restates another noun in the sentence.
- Vignette
- sketch or short short story.
- Theme
- central idea message in a literary art.
- Protagonist
- main character in literary art.
- Penultimate
- 2nd to last line of poetry.
- Point of View
- term allows readers to discuss perspective of a literary work's narrator
- Allusion
- referance in writing or speech to some piece of knowledge not specifically named. Come from a body of information that a writer presumes the reader knows.
- Personification
- when a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. "The stars whistled, as the sea danced."
- Free Verse
- verse without regular meter or rhyme.
- Coordinator
- coordinating conjunction. "BOYFANS" - but, or, yet, for, and, nor, so.
- "Pentameter"
- means there ar 10 syllables
- Foreshadowing
- clues throughout the story giving hints of what will come.
- Paradox
- statement that seems contradictory but is true. When opposites work together " You must be cruel to be kind."
- Summary
- conclusion of what was said/ read.
- Iambic
- type of rhythm in which every second or even-numbered syllable is accented.
- Mood
- atmosphere created by writer's diction/ use of details.
- Pentameter
- line of verse with 5 feet, 10 syllables.
- Soliloquy
- speech made by play's character to himself/ herself when alone.
- Dependent Clause
- verb and subject, can't stand alone
- Poetic Epithet
- formulaic phrase containing an adj. and noun, comon in epic poetry such as The Odyssey.
- "Iambic"
- rhythm in the line
- Rythm
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in line of poetry.
- Metaphor
- figure of speech when one thing is spoken as if it was soething else. Compares without using "as" or "like."
- Rhyme Scheme
- regular pattern of rhyming words in poem. Is indicate dby using differnt letters of alphabet
- Run-on
- two independent clauses joied together by punctuation (with comma usually)
- Tetrameter
- line of verse with four feet, which means 8 syllables
- Adj. Clause
- clause that includes relative pronoun. (who, whom, whose, which, that, where)
- Tragedy
- drama in which protagonist meets with danger or dies.
- Oxymoron
- any two-word phrase in which seemingly contradictory words are used. "jumbo shrimp"
- Sonnet
- lyric poems of 14 lines, 10 syllables a line. (140 syllables)
- Clause
- group of words with at least one subject.
- Internal Rhyme
- occurence of rhyming words in a line of verse
- Exact Rhyme
- when the vowels and ending consonants rhyme.