English Semester Terms
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- Protagonist
- The main character
- Pun
- A play on words
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike, using the words like, as, of than
- Sensory Imagery
- Language that evokes images that triggers memories in the reader of the five senses
- Essay
- A short nonfiction work about a specific subject, may be narritive, persuasive, descriptive, expository, or argumentative
- Tragedy
- A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow
- Personifictaion
- A figure of speech that attributes human qualities to an inanimate object
- Allusion
- A reference to a well known person, place, event, work of art, myth of religion
- Epic
- A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or a hero
- Foil
- A character who, though contrast, reveals the characteristics of another character
- Theme
- A central idea
- Figurative Language
- The use of figures of speech to express ideas
- Analogy
- A comparison to two things that are somewhat alike
- Epithet
- Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality
- Hubris
- Excessive pride and arrogance
- Archetypes
- Primordial image and symbols that occur in literature, myth, religion, and folklore
- Hyperbole
- A figure of speech the uses exaggeration
- Onomatopoeia
- A figure of speech that uses words to imitate sound
- Irony
- The opposite of what is expected, a reality different from appearence
- Ate
- Blind, rash behavior
- Ellipsis
- Three periods (...) that signify the omission of one or more words
- Rhyme
- Words with identical sounds, but different spellings
- Myth
- A fictional tale about gods or heroes, allusions to Greek, Roman, Norse, and Celtic myths are common in English literature
- Rising Action
- The path of the plot leading to the climax
- Nemesis
- An act or retribution or punishment
- Repetition
- A poetic device that uses the repeating of words, sounds, phrases, or sentences
- Consonance
- The repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words
- Climax
- The high point in the plot, after which there is falling action, may coincide with crisis
- Alliteration
- The repition of initial consonant or vowel sounds in two or more successive or nearyby words
- Denouement
- The falling action or final fevelations in the plot
- Rhapsode
- One who recited epic and other poetry, especially professionally
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing
- Arete
- Striving for excellence in particular areas of human behavior
- Extended Metaphor
- A metephor the is elaborated on and developed in several phrases or sentences
- Conflict
- The struggle between characters and other characters, forces of nature, or outside forces beyond their control, internal conflict within a character who struggles with mortal choices and matters of conscience
- Rhyme Scheme
- The pattern of rhyming words, the last word in each line is assgned aletter of the alphbet beginning with a
- Antagonist
- A character, instution, group, or force that is in conflic with the protagonist
- Falling Action
- All action that takes place after the climax
- Couplet
- A pair of rhyming lines in the same meter
- Assonance
- The repetition of vowel sounds intwo or more words that do not rhyme