English 1 Final Review
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- Onomatopoeia
- the use of a word, like buzz, snap or burp, whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
- Satire
- making fun of society
- What is figurative language?
- gives some sort of imagery
- Where did shakespeare get his ideas?
- other writers from before him, romans, greeks
- Shakes queen and king
- Elizabeth I & Henry II
- Comedy
- starts out bad but ends up good. (opposite of Tragedy)
- Haiku
- japanese poems that have three lines 575
- Personification
- a metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
- Hyperbole
- extremely exaggerated
- Imagery
- characters explain to the audience everything that is imaginable
- Metaphor
- a direct comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using words the prepositions like, as, or than ( or linking verbs such as resemble)
- Shakes home
- stratford-on-avon
- Pun
- play on words using words that sound similar to make some sort of point
- Allusion
- reference to something outside
- Soliloquy
- long speech to let audience know what is happening in the characters mind.
- Paradox
- seem like it's contradicting but it's true
- couplet
- pair of rhymed lines
- Stanza
- group of lines in a poem
- Folio
- large sheet of paper used in printing
- Simile
- an indirect comparison between two seemingly unlike things that does use the prepositions like, as, than ( or linking verbs such as resembles or seems)
- Plot structure
- three different subplots(The Tempest)
- Sonnet
- 14 lines, 3x4(quatrains)+1x2(couplet) usually love poem
- Assonance
- a poem that has a repetition of consonance of vaul sounds
- Narrative poem
- any work of poetry that tells a story
- Line
- a group of words that ends according to the meter not punctuation
- Blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter (unstressed and stressed syllable) A poem that doesn't rhyme
- Irony
- when you have a situation that is contrary to your expectation
- Mood
- overall emotional impact the poem has
- Shakespeare's Birth-death
- 1564-1616
- Quarto
- Quarter 1/4 of folio
- Ballad
- a song like poem that tells a story (musical)
- Exposition
- exposes the setting (information)
- Tragedy
- starts out good and ends up bad. (opposite of comedy)
- Aside
- when you have a character directly addresses the audience.