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english wods stack 1
words of the day
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anthology | a collection of stories, poems, writings etc... |
| plagiarism | the act of taking one's ideas or writings from another and claiming it as one's own |
| stanza | a formal division of lines in a poem, considered a unit |
| paraphrase | a rewording and or condensing of the meaning of something |
| implication | somthing indicated indirectly; something suggested |
| discrepancy | a lack of agrement; inconsitantly |
| rhetoric | the art of using words effectivly |
| cohesive | sticking together |
| clarity | the quality of being clear, clearness |
| articulate | to speak and express one's thoughts clearly and consisley |
| monotone | the utterance of sucsessive words with out change in pitch or key |
| propaganda | a widespread promotion of pirticular thoughts or documents making a statement or assertion |
| declaritive | making a statement or assertion |
| demonstrative | illistrated; giving proof showing feelings openly |
| contemporary | living or happening in the same period |
| narative | fictional acount of events; story |
| persausive | having power or tendancy to convinse |
| superflous | exssesive or unnecassary |
| eloquence | the ability to be vivid forcefull fluent in speach and writting |
| synonymous | having the same or nearly the same meaning as somethind else |
| understatement | something that is represented for less than it is |
| alliteration | repition of initial consanent sounds |
| irony | the difrence between realality and the real world |
| plot | seqence of events in a story |
| metaphore | comparison between two unlike things |
| tone | emotinal attitude or feelings of an entire work |
| mood | emotional attitude or feeling of part of a book |
| allusion | a refrance to a commonly known event or work |
| hyperbole | exageration for a specific effect |
| theme | central idea of story universal message |
| protagonist | main charicter of a story |
| antagonist | charicter or force who is against the main charicter |
| climax | turning point in durration of plot |
| narrator/speaker | charicter/ entity who speaks directly to the reader |
| symbol | something that represents something greater |
| flashback | interuption in a narrative to show past events |
| suspense | a state or feeling given by clues with the outcome unknown |
| conflict | the opposing forces or ideas that cause the action in the narrative |
| dialouge | conversation among charicters |
| simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| oxymoron | bringing together two contradictory terms |
| paradox | satement that is contradictory yet true |
| denotation | dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | the ay a word is used in everyday lives; a words assosiation |
| setting | the time and place of a story |
| satire | the use of sarcasim or humo to critisize |
| personification | giving human qaulities to inatiment objects |
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