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English-9 Vocab
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| Realism | literary realism is a literary genre that attempts to represent subject-matter truthful, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural. |
| Cynical | Believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity. |
| Idiom | A phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one by mentioning another. |
| Personification | Non-living objects given human characteristics. |
| Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. |
| Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
| Simile | Comparing two things using like or as. |
| Oxymoron | Two opposite words are used together. |
| Antonyms | The words “hot” and “cold” are antonyms often used to describe extremes. |