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English
Finals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”. |
| alliteration | the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliterati |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. |
| apostrophe | a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”. |
| idiom | an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| Imagery | figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively. |
| Allusion | An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned. Allusions usually come from a body of information that the author presumes the reader will know. |
| Personification | he attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. |
| Symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
| Onomotopoeia | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
| Foreshadowing | to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: |
| Understatement | he act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”. |
| pun | the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. |
| setting | place where the events of a story happen ex:verona |
| Mood and Tone | The feeling a story creates and the tone of words which are used in the story |
| protagonist | good guy-romeo |
| antagonist | what the good guy fights against |
| theme | the central idea or point of a work |
| Static/Dynamic | If a character changes or does not change |
| Flat/Round | If characters are well known or well developed |
| Hamartia | a fatal flaw |
| Iambic Pentameter | What shakespeare wrote in, stressed/unstressed syllables in sets of 10 per line |
| Quatrain | A group of four in shakespeares sonnet |
| Couplet | A pairing of 2 lines |
| Sonnet | a poem with fourteen lines, following a specific format |
| Quatrain | A group of 4 lines in a sonnet |
| Couplet | A pair of 2 lines |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem |
| End rhyme | Rhymes at the end of a sentence |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhymes in the middle of a sentence |
| Dialect | The manner in which characters speak |
| Irony | Conversational-Sarcasm |
| Tragic Hero | Edit |
| Foil | A character meant to be opposite of another |
| Catharsis | he purging or purification of the emotions through the evocation of pity and fear, as in tragedy |
| the/theo | God |
| Hood | Order, quality |
| Phobe/phobia | Fear of or one who fears a specified thing |
| Duc/duct | Lead, bring or draw |
| Jud/jur/jus | Law, right |
| Mega` | Large |
| Path | Feeling or suffering |
| Micro | Small |
| Urb | City |
| Dem | people |
| Counter | Opposing, opposite |
| Meter/metry | Measuring Device, measure |
| -Gram | Something written or drawn, a record |
| cred | believe |
| Philo | Having a strong affinity or love for |
| Mono | One, single alone |
| Doc | Teach |
| Chron | Time |
| Hyper | Too much, excessive |
| Belli | WAr |
| Luc/lum | Light/shine |
| Poly | many |
| Dys | Bad, apart |
| Morph | Change;form |
| Logue/log | Speech;to speak |
| Auto | self,same |
| Logy | study of |
| vir | man, posion |
| fac | make, do or form |
| bi/bio | life;living organism |
| Geo | Earth |
| Culpa | guilty |
| oid | Human |
| vac | empty |
| anti/ant | Against, opposing |
| Derm | Skin |
| Ante | Before |
| Pan | All |
| Polis | City |
| Therm | Heat |
| Intra/intro | Inside, within |
| Brev | Short |
| Ego | self |
| pedo | child |
| Anthrop | Human |
| Types of conflict | Man vs self, man vs society, man vs supernatural, man vs man |
| Romeos location at the end of the play | dead |
| Juliets location at the end of the play | dead |
| Mercutio | Dead |
| Benvolio | Alive, is not seen in the last scene |
| Tybalt | Dead |
| Nurse | Alive, at the capulets |
| F.Lawrence | Alive, at juliets tomb |
| Lady montague | dead |
| Lady capulet | alive at juliets tomb |
| Lord montague | alive at juliets tomb |
| Capulet | Alive, juliets tomb |
| Paris | Dead |
| Apothecary | alive |
| Personal pronouns | I, me, we, you, he, she etc. |
| reflexive vs intensive | reflexive refers to the subject of a sentence and intensive pronouns add emphasis |
| interrogative pronouns | who, what, whom, which. Asks a question ex: who is that? |
| demonstrative pronouns | represents a thing or things ex: this tastes good |
| antecedent | what a pronoun refers to |
| transitive/intransitive verb | a transitive verb has an object that receives it, an intransitive word does not |
| linking verb | connects a subject to its predicate |
| helping verb | explains when an action is occuring |
| verb phrase | contains a verb and direct or indirect objects` |
| compound adjective | part-time, four-foot |
| proper | American,Russian,etc. |
| articles | the,a,an |
| comparative/superlative | comparative: compares 2 things ex:she's not as tall as me Superlative:compares something that is the most out of a group ex: she is the tallest |
| adverb | phrase that modifies an adjective or verb |
| concrete/abstract noun | concrete: dog abstract: faith |
| compound/collective | compound:snowman collective:team |
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