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Question | Answer |
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catacombs | underground cemetery |
virtuso | expert |
impunity | free from punishment |
fettered | handcuff |
connoisseur | authority on wine |
gait | walk, stride |
precluded | prevented |
retribution | penalty |
afflicted | burdened |
explicit | straight forward |
plot | story |
verbal irony | saying one thing/meaning another |
narrator | one who tells story |
author | writes books |
protagonist | main character |
mood | spirit/tone of the story |
point of view | perspective |
theme | message |
metaphor | A comparison without using "like" or "as" |
simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |
personification | A figure of speech that endows animals...with human qualities |
hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration |
onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which the sound of the word is suggestive of its meaning |
alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds (tongue twister) |
assonance | A repetition of vowel sounds--radiant, name, (Long "A") |
internal rhyme | a rhyme that occurs within a stanza line that "agrees" with an end word |
external/end rhyme | a rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in a poem |
symbolism | a word that represents and idea or thought in a poem |