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English 9
Semester 2: Vocab Words examples for Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Foil | Mercutio from " Romeo and Juliet", cynical, sophisticated boy, compared to Romeo romantic, naive. |
| Archaic Language | Anon! Soon! Right away! Coming! wot : know |
| Tragedy | The story "Romeo and Juliet" dye tragically committing suicide. |
| Blank verse | In shakespeare's plays, no rhyme at end of lines |
| Monologue | Long speech in "Romeo and Juliet" |
| Novel | "Invisible" |
| Iambic Meter | But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? |
| Iambic pentameter | u/u/u/u/u |
| Couplets | Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget. I'll pay that doctrine , or else die in debt. |
| Aside | Opening scene when Sampson speaks to Gregory in "Romeo and Juliet" |
| Foreshadowing | Montresor produces a trowel form beneath his cloak. |
| Character | Romeo Montague |
| Symbolism | Comparing the ibis to the boy Doodlebug. |
| Short Story | "The Raven" By: Edgar Allan Poe |
| Situational Irony | It took the deaths of both family's the Montague's and Capulet's to stop the feud of the families in " Romeo and Juliet". |
| Dramatic Irony | We know Juliet is just under a potion not dead, but he doesn't know that she's just sleeping. |
| Theme | Love is more powerful than family loyalty. |
| Third-Person limited | "Most Dangerous Game" |
| Verbal Irony | " Your health is precious" , ironically when the man is going to murder a man in "The cask of Amontillado" |
| Setting | it was about dusk, one evening during the supreme meadows of the carnival season.. |
| Blank verse | (u/) No rhyme at end of lines |
| Soliloquy | Friar Laurence's speech with emotions alone by himself , in "Romeo and Juliet" |
| Imagery | then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch. And blue spurt of a light match...- Robert Browning from "Meeting at Night" |
| Figurative Language | " I wandered lonely as a cloud" |
| Simile | " My mistresses eyes are nothing like the sun.-William Shakespeare |
| Metaphor | " O my love bursts into bloom" |
| Personification | This poetry gets bored of being alone. It wants to go outdoors to chew on the winds, to fill its commas with the keels of rowboats..- Hago Marganet, from :" living Poetry" |
| Onomatopoeia | And in the hush of waters was the sound .Of pebbles , rolling round; Forever rolling, with a hollow sound. And bubbling seaweeds ,as the waters go, Swish to and fro Their long cold tentacles of slimy gray - James Stephens , from: "The Shell" |
| Meter | Slowly, silently, now the moon ,Walks the night in her silver shoon, This way, and that she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees....- Walter de la Mare, from: "Silver" |
| Rhyme Scheme | aabbcc Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak , and weary.- Edgar Allan Poe |
| Approximate Rhyme | Once upon a midnight dreary ,wile I pondered, weak and weary. App.rhy.- Edgar Allan Poe |
| Tone | mocking, loving ,sorrow |
| Speaker | speaker, author |
| Foot | but soft! what light through yonder window breaks! unit of measure |
| Rhyme | My last defense . Is the present tense. it hurts me now to know. I shall not go. Cathedral- hunting in Spain . Nor cherrying in Michigan of Maine. _ Gwendolyn Brooks |
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