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English H
Voc and Literay Devices
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | use of same constant letter as first one |
| allusion | refernce to other media in a book or poem |
| antagonist | bad guy in book |
| diction | how you talk with or without an accent |
| dramatic irony | audience knows something that character doesn't |
| external conflict | character struggles with something physically |
| 1st person point of veiw | narrator is the protagonist using I me and we |
| flat character | one sided stereo typical |
| foreshadowing | saying what will come before it happens |
| hyperbole | exagerating "i could eat a horse" |
| imagery | descriibing something like a seen or person |
| internal conflict | character struggles with something internally |
| irony of situation | events turn out to be opposite of what was thought |
| metaphor | comparison of 2 unlike things wihtout as or like |
| mood | how does this make you feel |
| oxymoron | condensed paradox with 2words like "sweet sorrow" |
| paradoz | a contradictory notion that may be true |
| parallesim | using -ing words in a list |
| personfication | describing something as a living thing when it isnt |
| protagonist | hero of story |
| repetition | repeating or words |
| round charcater | complex and multiemotion |
| setting | where story happpens |
| simile | comparions with like or as |
| static character | doesn't change much in story |
| symbol | object that stands for something else |
| them | basic message author tries to convey |
| 3rd person point of veiw | outside voice is narrator |
| tone | authors emotions about the story or poem |
| adroit | quick or skillful in action |
| adverse | contrary intersests |
| aversion | a feeling of intense- changing direction |
| anthropology | social science tht shows origin of people and relationships |
| bilious | peevish ill-natured and sickening unpleasant |
| circumlocation | using too many words and evasion in a speech |
| circumspect | prudent-cautious to to consider all circumstances |
| connubial | married to the state |
| consaguinity | close relation to someone |
| equivocate | avoiding conversation |
| expedient | what is best for your interests |
| gauche | gross |
| grandiloquent | pompous and extravagent way of speaking |
| loquacious | talking a lot |
| melancholy | sad gloomy depressing |
| misanthropist | hates people |
| misogyny | hates women |
| philanthropist | rich person that loves to help people and do charity work |
| subversive | to overthrow or ruin |
| xenophobia | scared of foreigners |
Created by:
wenow401
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