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Semester 1 LA
Mrs. Waters PreAP Semester One English Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| careen | -v - to rush carelessly |
| iridescent | – adj - shining with shifting rainbow colors |
| evanesce | – v – disappear; vanish; fade away gradually (like a vapor) |
| doggedness | - n - persistence; stubbornness |
| reiterate | - v- to repeat |
| precariously | - adv - insecurely; in a dangerous way |
| exotic | - adj - excitingly strange |
| heresy | - n- an action or opinion contrary to what is generally thought of as right |
| imminent | - adj - about to happen |
| invalid | - adj -too ill to live a normal life; n- someone who is too ill to live a normal life |
| plaintive | – adj – sad, mournful |
| protuberance | – n – bulge, projection (The woman was embarrassed by the protrusion of her lower jaw. |
| querulous | - adj – constantly complaining; whining |
| repugnant | – adj – disgusting; offensive |
| scintillating | – adj – sparkling, shining, or flashing |
| perfunctory | – adj – acting routinely with little interest or care (Due to his perfunctory manner of inspecting the factory, he missed several hazardous work conditions.) |
| impudent | – adj – disrespectful; characterized by improper bold behavior |
| innocuous | – adj – harmless; producing no injury |
| drone | -v – speaking in a monotonous tone |
| declivity | – n – downward slope |
| deciduous | – adj – shedding leaves (a deciduous tree); not permanent |
| colloquial | – adj – informal (speech) (English papers should not contain colloquial expressions.) |
| convivial | – adj – fond of good company and festivity |
| taciturn | – adj – quiet; speaking few words (A shy person is usually taciturn.) |
| vehemently | – adv – forcefully expressing emotion or conviction (He vehemently denied wrongdoing.) |
| wistful | – adj – having unfulfilled longing or yearning (Her wistful dream was to become a movie star.) |
| tenuous | – adj – flimsy; barely attached (His position at the law firm was tenuous when he objected to hiring women.) |
| austere | – adj – strict; stern; unadorned (Pioneers usually led an austere existence.) |
| supercede | – v – to replace; to cause to be displaced or set aside (The new law will supercede all of the previous ones |
| incredulous | – adj – disbelieving (The farmer was incredulous as he watched the spaceship land.) |
| parallelism | he use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases |
| attitude | a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state |
| denotation | a specific dictionary definition of a word |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| syntax | The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences |
| theme | a central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work. A lesson about life or people. |
| parallelism | he use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases |
| attitude | a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state |
| denotation | a specific dictionary definition of a word |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| syntax | The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences |
| theme | a central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work. A lesson about life or people. |
| protagonist | the central character, and focus of interest who is trying to accomplish or overcome an adversity, and has the ability to adapt to new circumstances |
| diction | word choice. An author often chooses a word because it suggests a connotative meaning that comes from its use in various social contexts. |
| details | facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in the work |
| antithesis | Juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted or opposed in meaning in such a way as to give emphasis to contrasting ideas |
| antagonist | the character opposing the protagonist; can be a person, idea, or force |
| atmosphere | the dominant mood or emotional tone |
| imagery | the words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the five senses |
| connotation | the emotions |
| denouement | the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel. |
| simile | a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words LIKE or AS |
| personification | writing that gives animals, inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as |
| TPCASTT | a method of analyzing poetry that gives you a formula to work from when you’re trying to figure out what a poem means |
| title | before reading the passage, analyze the title. What do you think the passage is about? |
| paraphrase | rewrite the text in your own words |
| connotation | What is the implied meaning, and how does the poet convey this meaning? |
| attitude | What is the tone of the poem? |
| Shift | There is a shift of some sort in nearly every poem written. It might be a shift in tone, in subject matter, in meaning, in rhyme scheme – anything. |
| Title | Take another look at the title. What does it mean to you now that you’ve analyzed the poem? |
| Theme | In a sentence, what is the theme? In other words, what statement about life is the poet making? |
| alliteration | The repetition of the same sounds, esp at the beginning of words |
| repetition | technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis |
| suspense | anticipation in a story |
| foreshadowing | he use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story |
| characterization | the method used by a writer to develop a character. |
| flat characters | a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story. |
| round characters | major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. Round characters tend to be more fully developed and described than flat, or static, characters |
| static characters | does not change throughout the work, and the reader’s knowledge of that character does not grow |
| dynamic characters | undergoes some kind of change because of the action in the plot |
| conflict | a fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged struggle |
| man vs. man | Man versus man epitomizes the daily troubles we have with others |
| man vs. nature | A run in with the forces of nature. On the one hand, it expresses the insignificance of a single human life in the cosmic scheme of things. On the other hand, it tests the limits of a person’s strength and will to live. |
| man vs. self | internal conflict. Not all conflict involves other people. Sometimes people are their own worst enemies |
| man vs. society | The values and customs by which everyone else lives are being challenged. |
| elements of plot | All fiction is based on conflict and this conflict is presented in a structured format called plot. |
| exposition | refers to the opening information in a literary piece. |
| inciting incident | that event which disturbs the hero's life |
| rising action | a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest |
| climax | the high point of the story for the reader. Frequently, it is the moment of the highest interest and greatest emotion. The point at which the outcome of the conflict can be predicted. |
| allusion | reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| metonymy | the metaphorical substitution of one word or phrase for another related word or phrase. Example: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” The word “pen” is used in place of “words” and the word “sword” is used to represent the idea of fighting or war. |
| irony | Irony is the contrast between what is expected or what appears to be and what actually is. |
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