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English Summer Words
Words for Studying over the summer
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | a series of words with similar sounds like stern and stem |
| Allusion | a passing or casual reference |
| Antagonist | The character in a plot that interacts negatively to the hero/heroine |
| Assonance | resemblance of sounds. |
| Ballad | any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed verse of a poem |
| climax | the point at which the plot takes a new direction |
| Conflict | the struggle or problem in a story |
| couplet | a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. |
| Denouement | the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel. |
| Dialogue | conversations between characters |
| Dynamic Character | a character who undergoes a permanent change in outlook or character during the story |
| Exposition | a large-scale public exhibition or show |
| Fable | a short tale to teach a moral lesson |
| Flat character | an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author. |
| Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Foreshadowing | to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure |
| Free Verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
| Genre | a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like |
| Hero/Heroine | the principal character in a story, play, film, etc. |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| Lamb | a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc |
| Irony | a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. |
| Lyric Poem | a short poem of song like quality |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| Meter | poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses. |
| Onomatopoeia | A word to mimic a sound, such and "bang", "slurp" or "moo" |
| Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. |
| Personification | When an author gives an inanimate object human qualities |
| Plot | The plan or layout of a story; string of events |
| Point of view | the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters. |
| Protagonist | the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. |
| Rhyme | identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse. |
| Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes used in a poem |
| Rhythm | a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form. |
| Round character | a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author. |
| setting | the time and place in which a story takes place |
| static character | a literary character who remains basically unchanged throughout a work |
| absolution | act of absolving; a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties. |
| alacrity | cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness |
| antagonism | an active hostility or opposition, as between unfriendly or conflicting groups |
| antecedent | preceding; prior |
| antithesis | opposition; contrast |
| arbiter | a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire. |
| archetypal | the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype. |
| cacophony | harsh discordance of sound; dissonance |
| capitulate | to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms. |
| clairvoyant | having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision. |
| collusion | a secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy |
| confluence | a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like |
| convergence | an act or instance of converging. |
| credulity | willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility |
| dissonance | a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of unrest and needing completion. |
| equivocal | allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, especially with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous |
| etymology | the derivation of a word. |
| exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt or fault |
| expurgate | to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness |
| hapless | unlucky; luckless; unfortunate |
| ignominious | marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating |
| incarnate | personified or typified, as a quality or idea |
| indigenous | originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native |
| interlocutor | a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue |
| intransigent | refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible |
| inviolable | prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration |
| mitigate | to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. |
| obdurate | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. |
| obsequious | characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning |
| orator | a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence |
| perfidious | deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful |
| plausible | having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable |
| preclude | to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible |
| proclivity | natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition |
| rectitude | rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue |
| reverence | a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration. |
| subjugate | to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master. |
| superfluous | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive |
| transgress | to pass over or go beyond |
| veracity | habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness |
| wistful | characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning |
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