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Unit 4 Vocab
I NEED TO PASS ENGLISH CLASS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Foil | A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny sidekick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero. |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. |
| Free Verse | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. “If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times….” |
| Hypotactic | sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them. |
| Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person , a thing, a place, or an experience. |
| Inversion | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. |