English Vocab
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- Analogy
- A comparison of two things that are somewhat alike
- Falling action
- all action that takes place after the climax
- Pyrrhic
- a foot of poetry with two successive unaccented syllables
- Couplet
- a pair of rhyming lines in the same matter
- Alliteration
- the repetition of initial consonant or vowel sounds in two or more successive or nearby words
- Nemeis
- punishment from gods or mortals
- Personification
- A figure of speech that attributes human qualities to an inanimate object
- Climax
- the high point in the polt after which there is a falling action. May coincdie with crisis
- Essay
- A short nonfiction work about a specific subjest.
- Rising action
- the path of the plot leading to the climax
- Epic
- A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or a hero. Ex- The Odyssey
- Figurative language
- the use of figures of speech to express ideas
- Protagonist
- the main character
- Rhyme scheme
- the pattern of rhyming words. the last word in each line is assigned a letter of the alphabet beginning with a
- Thesis statement
- subject pluse your opion. Ex- Achilles rage. The rage of Achilles caused the ulitimate destruction of Troy.
- Hyperbole
- a figure of spech that uses exaggeration
- Foil
- a character who, through contrast, reveals the characteristics of another character
- Achilles
- the greates greek hero
- Epithet
- A word or phrase describing a quality of a person, place, or thing that is repeated throughout a work.
- Denouement
- the falling action or final revelations in the plot
- Hubris
- Excessive pride, leads to the hero to think he/she is greater then the heroes who are his peers and that he/she has the limitless power of the gods
- Tragic hero
- they have to kill other good men in battle, they win honor and glory but at a cost of suffering and death
- Sensory imagery
- language that evokes images and triggers memories int he reaader of the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell
- Rhyme
- words with identical sounds, but different spellings
- Archetypes
- primordial images and symbols that occur in literature, myth, religion, and folklore
- ate
- result of hubris. Doing something with out thinking of consequences
- Repetition
- a poetic device that uses the repeating of words, sounds, phrases or sentences
- Poetic Devives
- words tih harmonious sounds including assonance, consonance, aliteration, repetition, and rhyme
- Onomatopoeia
- a figure of speech that uses words to imitate sound
- conflict
- the stuggle between characters and other character, forces of natue, or outside forces beyond their control, internal conflict within a character who struggles with moral choics and matters of conscience
- Extended metaphor
- A metaphor that is elaboratd on and deceloped in several phrases or sentences
- metaphor
- a figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing
- Irony
- The opposite of what is expected. A reality different from appearance
- simile
- a figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike, using the words like, as, or than.
- Antagonist
- A character, institution, group, or force that is in conflicts with the protagonist
- Arete
- the stiving for excellence in particalar areas of human behavior. Must have strength, skill, and detrimnation, courage and respnsiblites formof intelligence insight
- Homeric simile
- as known as epic simile compare heroic events in the story with common everyday events
- Ellipsis
- Three periods (...) that signify the omission of one or more words
- Pun
- a play on words.
- Myth
- A fictional tale about gods or heroes