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english vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of constant sounds at the begining of words or accented syllables |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction |
| simile | a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects, using like or as |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it was somehing else |
| symbol/symbolism | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| allusion | a reference to a well known person,place,event, literally work or work of art |
| verbal irony | a word or a phasr is used to suggest the opposite of its usual meaning |
| dramatic irony | there is a condridiction between what a charector thinks and what the reader knows |
| situational irony | a event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the charectors of the reader or audience |
| setting | time and place of the action |
| plot | sequence of events in literary work |
| theme- theme find- thesis (write) | a central message or iinsight into life revealed by a literary work |
| charector/characterization | act of creating and developing a charector person that takes part in a action |
| tone | the visiter attitude toward his or her subject, charectors,or audience |
| personification | a figure of speech in which a non human subject is given human charectoristics |
| end ryhme | accurs when ryhming words are repeated at the end lines |
| mood/atmosphere | a feeling created iin the reader by a literary work or pasage |
| satire | writing that redicules or citicizes individuals ideas, institutions, social conventions, or other works of art |
| iambic pentameter | a line of poetry with five iambic feet, each containing one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable |
| sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem focused ona single theme |
| verse | 1 line of a poem |
| prose | the ordinary form of written language |
| couplet/quatrain | couplet- two line stanza quatrain- four line stanza |
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linhague
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