English Final
Semester one vocabulary for the final
Terms
undefined, object
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- decorum
- requirement of political society
- syntax
- arrangement of words in a sentence
- refrain
- a repeated line
- limerick
- light verse rhyming in aabba
- synecdoche
- using a part to stand for the whole or vice versa
- Catharsis
- an audience response of pity and fear
- Tragic Hero
- not perfect but better than most
- hyperbole
- emphasis through exageration
- blank verse
- unrhymed lines of ten syllables each
- Allegory
- an extended metaphor
- Ballad
- narrative poem composed in short stanzas for singing
- irony
- intent and actual meaning differ
- verse
- a stanza of several lines
- pastoral poetry
- poetry which deals with the life of shephards or rustics
- details
- parts that make up the larger story
- consonance
- similar consonant sounds especially at the end of a word
- Hamartia
- The protagonists great flaw
- Tone reveals
- attitude
- quatrain
- stanza of four lines
- strategy
- use of specific language for a certain effect
- setting
- background of a story
- simile
- compares unlike things using like or as
- Hubris
- overwhelming pride and overconfidence
- carpe diem
- "sieze the day" in latin
- stress
- the emphasis
- sonnet
- a 14-line peom in pentameter verse form
- structure
- arrangement of materials within a work
- onomatopoeia
- words whose sounds imitate natural sounds
- satire
- seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval or an object by ridicule
- doggerel
- crudely written verse
- trimeter
- a line of verse with three metrical feet
- narrative techniques
- methods in telling a story
- Allusion
- referencing a literary work outside
- diction leads to
- tone
- free verse
- poetry without structure
- couplet
- two rhyming lines
- haiku
- 17 syllable japanese poem
- scansion
- method of determining meter of a poem
- metaphor
- indirect comparision without a comparing word
- Climax
- the turning point of the action
- Denouement
- final unraveling of plot
- tone
- manner in which an author expresses their attitude
- Attitude
- speaker...disposition towards a subject
- figues of speech
- any device to describe something that is not literally true
- diction
- word choice
- anti-hero
- character who lacks heroing qualities
- euphony
- agreeable sounds
- rhythm
- measured flow
- alliteration
- repetition of sounds
- conceit
- elaborate metaphor
- symbol
- something that is itself and a sign for something else at the same time
- point of view
- vantage point from which a story is told
- epic
- lengthy narrative poem
- imagery
- langauge to create a picture
- lyric
- poem of limited length expressing thoughts
- theme
- main thought expressed by a work
- metonymy
- name of an object is substituted for a related item
- Apostrophe
- direct address to a deceased or absent person
- style
- characteristic manner of expression of an author
- assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds
- elegy
- mournful, meancholy poem
- madrigal
- song designed for several voices