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2nd Quarter - Eng 10
2nd Quarter Vocab - Eng 10
Question | Answer |
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poetry | the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts |
speaker | the voice talking in the poem |
image | a representation of anything we can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell |
lyric | a short poem that expresses strong feelings and does not tell a story |
ballad | a song-like poem that tells a story and has rhyme and refrain |
refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a poem |
metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between to dissimilar things without using like or as |
tanka | poetic form that evokes a strong feeling through a single image |
personification | a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
symbol | person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and for something beyond itself |
simile | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two dissimilar things using like or as |
stanza | group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem |
rhyme | repetition of accented sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem |
mood | feeling in a work of literature |
tone | writer's attitude toward the reader, subject, or character |
research | systematic investigation into a subject in order to discover facts or theories |
citation | a cited passage that references an authority |
thesis | a stated proposition to be proved |
works cited | page that contains full citations of documents referenced in a paper |
plagiarism | the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work |