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English 9
Semester 2: Vocab Words for Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Foil | Character who is used as a contrast to another character. A writer uses a foil to accentuate and clarify the distinct qualities of two characters . |
| Archaic Language | many of Shakespeare's words and expressions are out of use today, or their meanings have changed. Shakespeare also often omits words. |
| Tradegy | A narrative about serious and important actions that end unhappily. Usually a tragedy ends with the deaths of the main characters; in others the main characters are responsible for their downfall. |
| Blank Verse | Unryhmed iambic pentameter. No rhyme at ends of lines. |
| Monologue | Similar to a soliloquy because it is a lengthy speech. Unlike a soliloquy , however a monologue is addressed to other characters, NOT THE AUDIENCE! |
| Soliloquy | A speech in which a characters, ALONE, on stage , expresses his or her thoughts to the AUDIENCE.Is a lengthy speech. Spoken when no other characters are present. Lets audience know what a characters is thinking or feels. |
| Aside | A remark made to the audience or one other character, UNHEARD by the other characters. Brief , quick speech. Characters are present; but AREN'T ABLE TO HEAR SPEECH.Lets characters know what a character is thinking or feeling. |
| Couplets | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. |
| Iambic Pentameter | Five iambic units in each line. |
| Iambic Meter | Unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. |
| Novel | Fictional prose narrative usually consisting of more than fifty words. |
| Direct Characterization | Is when a author directly tells you the character's personality; how they are like. |
| Resolution of Denouement | The tying up of all lose ends in a story, no problems left; ending of story. |
| Foreshadowing | The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot. |
| Omniscient point of view | a point where a person that is telling the story knows everything there is to know about the characters and their problems, we know what the characters are thinking, the narrator isn't in the story at all the character is basically telling the story. |
| Irony | Is the contrast of what you think will happen compared to what actually happens. |
| Character reveals #1 | letting us hear the person speak. |
| Character reveals #2 | Describing how the character looks or dresses. |
| Character reveals #3 | Letting us listen to the character's inner thoughts and feelings. |
| Character reveals #4 | Revealing what other characters in the story think or say about the character. |
| Character reveals #5 | Showing us what the character does, his or her actions . |
| Character reveals #6 | telling us directly what the character's personality is like; hard-hearted , or kind. |
| Symbolism | Is the use of symbols to represent ideas and qualities of a animal , character, or non- human object. |
| Short Story | A short, concentrated , fictional prose narrative, with 4 " Bare Bones" , main events, the basic situation or exposition , complications, climax, and resolution. |
| Indirect Characterization | is when we have to use information given to us from the author to find out a character's personality; or by inferring from our own decision. |
| Situational Irony | is what we think happens compared to what actually happens, something happens differently than we expect. |
| Dramatic Irony | IS when the audience or reader knows something that the character doesn't know in a story. |
| Plot | The series of related events that make up a story. |
| Climax | The high peak of a story full of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot; the turning point in a story. |
| Rising Action | The series of events that lead up to the climax. |
| Theme | Is a lesson we can learn from a story applied from details in a story, not directly told; the main message a author wants us to learn from story. |
| Third- person limited point of view | Is when the narrator of the story, who plays no part in a story , zooms into the thoughts and feelings of just one character. |
| Point of view | Is a point from which a writer tells a story. |
| Setting | Is the when, or where a story takes place such as time, day, year and place. |
| Verbal Irony | is when a writer or speaker says something but means something completely different. |
| Exposition or Basic Situation | Is the part where the characters and their problems, or conflicts are introduced to the sotry. |
| #1 Step to writing process for essay | Prewriting. |
| #2 Step to writing process for essay | Writing the 1st draft. |
| #3 Step to writing process for essay. | Revising. |
| #4 Step to writing process for essay. | Editing and Proofreading. |
| #5 Step to writing process for essay | Submitting your paper. |
| Narrative Essay | Essay that tells about a series of events , usually in chronological order, tells what happened. |
| Informing Essay/ Exposition Essay | Essay that explains or informs. |
| Descriptive Essay | Essay that uses images to help us experience something with our senses; smell, taste, look and hear. |
| Persuasive Essay | Essay that influences people, what should I do about it. |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses; normally create pictures in a reader's mind; use sound, touch, taste or smell. |
| Figurative Language | Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level; involve a imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things. |
| Simile | Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word like, as , resembles , or than . |
| Metaphor | Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words, like, as, than, or resembles. |
| Personification | Kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. |
| Onomatopoeia | Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. Important element in music of poetry. |
| Meter | Regular patter of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhymes in a poem, The rhyme scheme of a stanza or poem is indicated by the use of different letters of the alphabet for each rhyme. For example the rhyme scheme of brook's poem is aabbcc. |
| Approximate Rhyme | When two words have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly. |
| Tone | attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character . Tone is conveyed through the writer's choice of words and details. |
| Speaker | Voice that is talking to usin a poem. |
| Iamb | Is a meterical foot, or unit of measure, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
| Foot | Unit of measure. |
| Rhyme | Repetition of accented vowel sounds, and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem. Choice and voice are rhymes, as are tingle and jingle. |
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