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10th grade vocab..
(summerwork) Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| propaganda | information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
| narrative | a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious |
| nemesis | an opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome |
| non-fiction | real; a true story or facts |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd; ( but in reality expresses a possible truth) |
| pathos | the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion |
| personification | the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure |
| 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 |
| prologue | a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel |
| pun | the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications; a play on words |
| satire | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc |
| setting | the surroundings or environment of anything |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” |
| situational irony | an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does |
| stage directions | an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements |
| stream of consciousness | a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions |
| symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character |
| thesis | a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections; a subject for a composition or essay |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character |
| tragic hero | literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy |
| utopia | An imaginary place or government in which political and social perfection has been reached in the material world |
| villain | a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot |
Created by:
Kelsey R
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