English 1 Year Vocab
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| show | a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions; it includes symbols representing truths about human life
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| alliteration | show 🗑
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| allusion | show 🗑
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| show | a detail, character, or image that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal to humans in a universal way across times and cultures
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| show | when an actor literally turns to the audience and speaks and is supposedly not heard by the other actors on the stage
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| show | a long narrative poem in rhythmic verse that could be put to music; often about legendary characters
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| show | unrhymed iambic pentameter
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| climax | show 🗑
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| show | a struggle between two opposing forces
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| show | the spoken words between characters in a story or play; usually set off with quotation marks
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| show | when an author tells the reader details about a character in the actual words of the text
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| dramatic irony | show 🗑
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| dramatic poetry | show 🗑
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| show | a long narrative poem written in an elevated style which presents the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race or nation; often about heroes or heroic deeds
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| exposition | show 🗑
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| show | after the climax, this part of the plot begins to take the reader toward the resolution
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| 1st person POV | show 🗑
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| flashback | show 🗑
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| show | a hint or indication of things that happen later in the story
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| free verse | show 🗑
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| show | the use of exaggeration in a literary work
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| show | an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements
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| show | when a character's qualities are revealed through the reactions of other characters, or what other characters say about the character
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| show | a rhyme created by two or more words within the same line of verse
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| show | a short poem that's purpose is to express the poet's feelings; often has a song-like quality
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| show | a figure of speech, also a type of analogy, in which a comparison is made between two unlike things in order to suggest a unique resemblance
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| monologue | show 🗑
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| show | the atmosphere created by the writer of a story--usually associated with the setting
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| motif | show 🗑
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| narrative hook | show 🗑
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| show | the use of words that imitate sounds
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| oxymoron | show 🗑
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| show | a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, principle, or moral lesson
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| show | a statement that sounds self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
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| show | a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure
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| show | a humorous or satirical imitation of someone or something
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| show | the giving of human qualities to inhuman things
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| plot | show 🗑
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| show | verse; the art of often rhythmical composition through the use of elevated or figurative language for the purpose of beauty or enlightenment
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| show | the ordinary form of written language, as distinguished from poetry; non-verse writing
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| show | a play on words which uses the various meanings of a word to create witty connections
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| repetition | show 🗑
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| show | the point in the plot when the conflict is settled or a conclusion is reached
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| rhetoric | show 🗑
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| rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | a uniform or patterned beat; in poetry, it is a pattern of accents or beats used to create an effect and to help accomplish the poet's purpose
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| rising action | show 🗑
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| satire | show 🗑
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| simile | show 🗑
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| show | when the opposite of what is expected to happen happens, with an ironic twist
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| slant rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | when an actor is performing as if he/she is alone on the stage; if other actors are on the stage, they appear unable to hear the actor speaking
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| sonnet | show 🗑
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| stage directions | show 🗑
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| symbol | show 🗑
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| theme | show 🗑
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| show | when the reader gets the internal thoughts and feelings of a single character only, and the other characters are only seen externally; third person pronouns used
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| show | the author's attitude toward his subject or audience that is created by his/her diction, references, imagery, etc
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| show | a contrast between what one says and what is actually meant; sarcasm
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| show | all-knowing; the reader gets the internal thoughts and feelings of all the characters; third person pronouns used
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| 3rd person objective POV | show 🗑
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| analogy | show 🗑
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| show | a short account of a particular incident or event
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| antagonist | show 🗑
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| show | a word having a meaning opposite to that of another word
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| show | the main thought or focus of a work of literature
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| show | events are presented in the order in which they occur
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| show | a page dedicated to recognizing a source of information or a quoted passage
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| clause | show 🗑
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| show | an overly used expression or idea
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| show | things that are normal, ordinary, and following the accepted way
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| show | the total amount of something when it's all added together
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| delineate | show 🗑
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| show | the leaving out of one or more words that are not necessary for a phrase to be understood
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| excerpt | show 🗑
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| explicit | show 🗑
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| show | a struggle against an outside force
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| fable | show 🗑
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| show | based on unsound logic; in error; illogical
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| genre | show 🗑
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| show | a prediction or educated guess
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| show | a five-beat poetic line
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| imagery | show 🗑
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| show | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
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| informative/explanatory writing | show 🗑
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| show | to bring together and mix into a whole
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| internal conflict | show 🗑
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| multimedia | show 🗑
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| show | a traditional story told to explain the customs and beliefs of a society
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| show | having total knowledge
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| show | a restatement of a passage or text in somewhat different words so as to simplify or clarify
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| pathetic fallacy | show 🗑
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| show | an original source of the information being discussed such as a person with direct knowledge of a situation or a document created by such a person
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| protagonist | show 🗑
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| rhetorical question | show 🗑
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| show | an expression of greeting or goodwill
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| show | documents or recordings that relate or discuss information originally presented elsewhere
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| slang | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech in which the word for part of something is used to mean the whole
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| syntax | show 🗑
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| thesis statement | show 🗑
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| tragedy | show 🗑
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