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Pre-ap language arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Italicized | To print in italic type |
| 2. Epic poetry | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| 3. Logical fallacy | a fallacy in logical argumentation fallacy, false belief - a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning |
| 4. Lyrical poetry | Characterized by an expression of the poet's personal feelings—and originally descriptive of songs accompanied by the lyre |
| 5. Sensory language | Sensory language is when the author uses words and details that appeal to a reader's senses |
| 6. Excerpt | To select or use (a passage or segment from a longer work) |
| 7. Playwright | One who writes plays; a dramatist. |
| 8. Protagonist | The main character in a drama or other literary work. |
| 9. Antagonist | One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary. |
| 10. symbolic imagery | is imagery that is not descriptive of a scene, but is intended to express an abstra. |
| 11. Faulty reasoning | Containing a fault or defect; imperfect or defective. |
| 12. Dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
| 13. Objective point of view | is when the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue |
| 14. Persuasive appeals | Any discrete emotion can be used in a persuasive appeal; this may include jealousy, disgust, indignation, fear, & anger |
| 15. Stage directions | an instruction to an actor or director, written into the script of a play |
| 16. Alliteration | the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases |
| 17. Assonance | rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence. |