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11th grade vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Definition | a statement of the exact meaning of a word, especially in a dictionary. |
Sound device | Sound devices are resources used by poets |
Controlling image | a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol. |
Alliteration | the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group |
Assonance | resemblance of sounds. |
Denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. |
Tone | a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength. |
Extended metaphor | An extended metaphor, also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is when an author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked vehicles, tenors, and grounds |
End rhyme | End rhyme is the most common type of rhyme in English poetry. Compare beginning rhyme; internal rhyme. |
Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. |
Root word | A root, or root word, is a word that does not have a prefix (in front of the word) or a suffix (at the end of a word). |
Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |
Slant rhyme | slant rhyme. rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours. |
Figurative | departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical. |
Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. |
Paradox | a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. |
Internal rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. |
Idiomatic | using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker. |
Concrete | existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract. |
Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
Consonance | agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions. |