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English Exam Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Surgical | Very precise, clear and accurate |
| Energetic | Active, lively |
| Ergonomic | Intended to decrease discomfort and maximize work |
| Vigorous | done with power, force or energy |
| Invigorate | to fill with strength and energy |
| Prodigal | wasting money or resources |
| Agitate | to publicly demand; petition for; to move vigorously or violently, to upset |
| enact | to make legal or official |
| reactionary | strongly opposed to change, conservative |
| Agile | able to move quickly and lightly |
| allege | to put forth as true; claim |
| Composure | Control over expression and action |
| Exponential | Steadily Increasing |
| Imposition | an unwelcome demand; a burden |
| Repository | a place designated for storage |
| Instantaneous | happening imediately |
| Reinstate | to bring back into existence our authority |
| inconstant | Not lasting; not steady |
| Synthesize | to combine; to blend |
| parenthetical | explaining the main idea or topic |
| hypothesis | idea proposed as true; theory |
| Diction | author's choice of words often a strong indication of the author's tone or attitude |
| character foil | two characters who are opposites, whose different characteristics highlight their differences |
| couplet | a pair of verse lines in poetry that rhyme |
| Sonnet | a fourteen line poems written in iambic pentameter |
| Iambic pentameter | a line of poetry in which there are five feet of unstressed and stressed syllables |
| Soliloquy | when an actor speaks his thoughts out loud on stage |
| Monologue | long speech given by a character in a play |
| Pun | Jokes that result from multiple word meanings or rhyming sounds |
| Foreshadowing | clues about events that will happen later in the story |
| Flashback | a story told that has already happened |
| Point of View | author choice of narrator; First person, third person limited, third person omniscient |
| Theme | a message to the world or an idea about life that the author expresses through his/her writing |
| Symbol | a person place, event, or object that is used to represent something else |
| Situational Irony | a contrast between what we expect to happen and what actually happens |
| verbal Irony | when a person says one thing, but means another |
| dramatic Irony | when the reader knows something that a character does not |
| Tone | suggests the author's attitude toward his/her subject |
| Denotation | the literal or dictionary definition of a word |
| Connotation | the attitudes, beliefs, or feelings associated with a word |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things |
| Personification | giving human characteristics to non human things |
| Allusion | a reference to a very well known place, event or literary work |
| Imagery | the user of descriptive |
| Alliteration | a poetic term using repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of a series of words |
| Oxymoron | a phrase the combines two contradictory terms |
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