Semester vocab
Words needed for semester tests 08-09
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- Theme
- A central idea.
- Climax
- The high point in the plot, after which there is falling action. May coincide with crisis
- 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 moral choices and matters of conscience.
- Arete
- The process of achieving greatness
- Appositive brush stroke
- The car, a 1936 Ford,went into the parking lot.
- Figurative Language
- The use of figures of speech to express ideas.
- .Repetition.
- A poetice device that uses the repeating of words, sounds, phrases, or sentences.
- Absolute bush stroke
- Engine smoking, gears grinding, the car went into the parking lot.
- Antagonist
- A character, institution, group, or force that is in conflict with the protagonist.
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing.
- Imagery
- The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. Creates images.
- Assonance
- The repetition in vowel sounds intwo or more words that do not rhyme.
- Protagonist
- The main character.
- Falling Action
- All action that takes place after the climax
- Naked quote
- A quote that is not attached to anything
- Participle brush stroke
- Sliding on the loose gravel, the car went into the parking lot.
- Rhapsode
- A person that recited epics and poems
- epic
- A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or a hero.
- Hyperbole
- A figure of speech that uses exaggeration.
- Allusion
- A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, myth, or religion.
- .Analogy.
- A comparison of two things that are somewhat alike.
- Ate
- An act of rashness, a happening because of hubris
- Inciting incident
- Introduces the major conflict of the story.
- Essay
- A short nonfiction work about a specific subject. Essays may be narrative, persuasive, descriptive, expository, or argumentative.
- In medias res
- Technical term for the epic convention of beginning "in the middle of things," rather than at the very start of the story.
- Archetype
- Primordial images and symbols that occur in literature, myth, religion, and folklore.
- Epithet
- A word or phrase describing a quality of a person, lace, or thing that is repeated throughout a work
- Adjectives-out-of-order brush stroke
- The car, dented and rusty, went into the parking lot.
- .Poetic devices.
- Words with harmonious sounds including assonance, consonance, alliteration, repetition, and rhyme.
- Active verb brush stroke
- the car chugged into the parking lot.
- Personification
- A figure of speech that attributes human qualities to an inanimate object.
- .Onomatopoeia.
- A figure of speech that uses words to imitate sound.
- Irony
- The opposite of what is expected. A reality different from appearance.
- Exposition
- An interpretation or explanation of a topic
- .Rhyme.
- Words with identical sounds, but different spellings.
- Rising action
- The path of the plot leading to the climax.
- Alliteration
- The repetition of initial consonant or vowel sounds in two or more successive or nearby words.
- .Denouement.
- The falling action or final revelations in the plot.
- Rhyme Scheme
- The pattern of rhyming words. The last word in each line is assigned a letter of the alphabet beginning with a.
- .Sensory imagery.
- Language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the five senses.
- Ellipsis
- Three periods (...) that signify the omission of one or more words.
- Consonance
- The repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words.
- Homeric simile
- A simile used by Homer with the words Just as, and so.
- Tragedy
- A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
- Brackets
- Marks — [ ] — resembling parentheses with square corners. Brackets are often used within quotations to distinguish between the quoter's own words and those of the writer being quoted
- Hubris
- Thinking you are better than others- puffed up with pride
- .Myth.
- A fictional tale about gods or heroes. Allusions to Greek, Roman, Norse, and Celtic myths are common on English literature.
- Couplet
- A pair of rhyming lines in the same meter
- Nemesis
- The retribution of Ate
- Resolution
- A resolve or determination.
- Pun
- A play on words
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike, using the words like, as, or than.
- Foil
- A character who, through contrast reveals the characteristics of another character.
- Extended Metaphor
- A metaphor that is elaborated on and developed in several phrases or sentences.