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FTCE English 6-12

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TermDefinition
Alliteration Using a series of words containing the same sounds - Assonance with vowels and Consonance with cononants.
Denotation The literal meaning or dictionary definition of a word.
Connotation Feelings or thoughts associated with a word not included in it's literal definition.
Aristotle's Criteria for Tragedy in Drama: Anagnorisis Tragic insight or recognition, this is the moment of realization by a tragic hero when he suddenly understands he has enmeshed himself in a "web of fate."
Aristotle's Criteria for Tragedy in Drama: Hamartia "Tragic Flaw" - A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.
Aristotle's Criteria for Tragedy in Drama: Hubris Excessive Pride, Confidence that assist a drama
Aristotle's Criteria for Tragedy in Drama: Nemesis Retribution or Payback - in a drama
Aristotle's Criteria for Tragedy in Drama: Peripateia A sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances
Who are the major 6 English Romantic Poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Villanelle A French poem that has 19 lines (3 stanzas, 5 tercets, final quatrain)
Limerick A type of humorous poem with 5 anapestic lines. (2 line iambic trimester, 2 lines iambi dimeter, 1 line iambic trimester) AABBA
Information Literacy The skill set required for the finding, retrieval, analysis, and use of information.
Haiku A Japanese poem - 17 syllables in 3 lines - 5/7/5
Sestina Six stanzas, 6 lines
Triolet One stanza poem of 8 lines
Rondeau A poem with 13 lines, 3 stanzas, 5/3/5
Procedural Writing A type of writing discourse the is designed to explain instructions or directions in order to complete a specific task.
Backchannelling Providing feedback to a speaker
Novel of Manners Fictional/realistic stories that observe and explore and analyze the social behaviors of a specific time and place.
The Divine Comedy, Dante
Who wrote Canterbury Tales? Geoffrey Chaucer
Who wrote the following works: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, A Rose for Emily William Faulkner
Chiasmus Parallel clauses, the second reversing the order of the first. "Ask not what your country can do for you but ..."
Anaphora A rhetorical device that regularly repeats a word or phrase at the beginnings of consecutive clauses. "We shall fight...We shall fight" " I have a dream..."
Aphorisms _______ concisely state common beliefs and may rhyme "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy and wise."
Metacognition
Who wrote "The Snow Man"? Wallace Stevens - One long sentence of clauses connected by conjunctions and commas, relative clauses and phrases
Dialect A form of language spoken by people according to their geographical region, social class, cultural group, or distinctive group.
Example of Historical Novels
Example of Psychological Novels Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment Gustave Flauberts - Madame Bovary
Who wrote Catcher in the Rye? JD Salinger (1951)
Red Herring Irrelevant information introduced to distract others from pertinent issues.
Slippery Slopes When fallacies are argues that one thing will cause others without demonstrating a cause and effect relationship.
Straw Man Refuting an exaggeration or caricature of someone's argument not the real argument.
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