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English REMEDIATION
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegory | a short moral story |
| alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| allusion | passing reference or indirect mention |
| antagonist | someone who offers opposition |
| antithesis | exact opposite |
| aphorism | a short pithy instructive saying |
| apostrophe | the mark(') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
| character | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something |
| characterization | the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features |
| colloquialism | characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech |
| conflict | an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) |
| consonance | the property of sounding harmonious |
| dialect | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people |
| dialogue | a conversation between two persons |
| diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words |
| elegy | a mournful poem; a lament for the dead |
| epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| euphemism | an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh |
| flashback | is a transition in a story to an earlier time |
| foreshadowing | the act of providing vague advance indications representing beforehand |
| genre | is a specific type of music, film, or writing. |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events |
| irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself |
| monologue | a dramatic speech by a single actor |
| onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms |
| personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. |
| plot | is a scheme, a story, a map charting progress |
| point of view | a mental position from which things are viewed |
| protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction |
| satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| setting | the physical position of something |
| simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds |
| symbolism | the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning |
| theme | the subject matter of a conversation or discussion |
| tone | the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound |
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