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English Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | Story or visual image that has a second meaning partly hidden |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds in words close together "Beowulf the bold, bringer of bad tidings" |
| Antithesis | The direct opposite of something |
| Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds in poetry |
| Ballad | Narrative poem composed of quatrains (four line stanzas) |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (five two-syllable feet consisting of a light stress followed by a heavy stress) |
| Colloquialism | language belonging to familiar speech or writing. Not used in formal language |
| Connotation | the meanings that words suggest beyond their bare dictionary definitions |
| Consonance | when words appearing at the ends of two or more verses have similar final consonant sounds but have final vowel sounds that differ |
| Denotation | the definition of a word, apart from the feelings it creates in the reader |
| Dissonance | A combination of harsh or jarring sounds, especially in poetry |
| Euphemism | the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one |
| Idiom | usage that produces unique words and phrases within regions or groups |
| Juxtaposition | is an act or instance of placing two things close together or side by side in order to show unlikeness or differences |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, usually used in an expression |
| Objective p.o.v | third person narration reporting speech and action, but excluding commentary on the actions and thoughts of the character |
| Paradox | a rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nevertheless true |
| Parallelism | A method of comparison of two ideas in which is developed in the same grammatical structure |
| Third person (omniscient) | a narrator who stands outside the story itself |
| Limited omniscient | narrator who describes in the third person only what is experienced by a few characters or one alone |
| Proverb | a brief saying that expresses a truth about life in a striking manner |
| Sonnet | fourteen line lyric poem in a single stanza, where lines of iambic pentameter are linked by an elaborate rhyme scheme |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole or the whole is used to designate a part |
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