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English Finals
Term | Definition |
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Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form |
Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
Idioms | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words |
Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid |
Active Voice | the person or thing represented by the grammatical subject performs the action represented by the verb |
Passive Voice | when the subject of a sentence receives the action of the verb rather than performing the action |
Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning |
Inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. |
Narrative | a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. |
Fiction | literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people. |
Nonfiction | prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history. |
Informal Language | casual and spontaneous |
Formal Language | less personal; professional |
Works Cited Book | Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publisher, Publication Date |
Works Cited Website | Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of Work.” Title of Site, Sponsor or Publisher, Date of Publication or Update Date, URL. Accessed Date |
Works Cited Poetry | Author last name, First name. “Poem Title.” Book Title, edited by Editor first name Last name, Publisher, Year, Page number(s) |