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The Cask ...
The Cask...
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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aishmael
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