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Literary Vocabulary
language vocab grades 9-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| Acronym | a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name |
| Archetype | something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies |
| Characterization | the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features |
| Consonance | the property of sounding harmonious |
| Irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| Lyric | poem a short poem of songlike quality |
| Medium | the surrounding environment |
| Narrator | someone who tells a story |
| Noun | phrase a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb |
| Onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| Parable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) |
| Semicolon | a punctuation mark (`;') used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period |
| Soliloquy | speech you make to yourself |
| Thesis | an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument |
| Satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| Rhetorical Question | a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered |
| Reflexive Pronoun | a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent |
| Overview | a general summary of a subject |
| Overstatement | making to seem more important than it really is |
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