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Final Exam Vocabulary
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English
12th Grade
12/05/2007

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Personification
Definition
A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.
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Imagery

Definition
 language that appeals to the senses.
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Meter

Definition
a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
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Foot

Definition
Basic unit of meter consisting of a set of number of strong and light stresses.  A metrical foot normally contains either two or three syllables with varying patterns of stress.
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Limited Third-Person Point of View

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Third person means that the narrator is talking about people.
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Descriptive Details

Definition
Details that give you a vivid image in your mind.
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Dramatic Irony

Definition
 The dramatic effect that the audience understands the meaning but not the character.
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Imaginative Comparison

Definition
the kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories.
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Implied Metaphor

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A less direct metaphor.
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Public Symbols

Definition
Commonly accepted symbols which are directly associated to certain meanings.
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Refrain

Definition
 a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem.
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 Free Verse

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A verse that does not flow in any kind of pattern.
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Slant Rhyme

Definition
rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical.
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Approximate Rhyme

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 a general term referring to rhymes that are close but not exact.
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Internal Rhymes

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when a word rhymes with another word that inside a line, and not at the normal place at the end.
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 Internal Rhymes

Definition
when a word rhymes with another word that inside a line, and not at the normal place at the end.
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Versification
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A sub category of prosody dealing with meter and rhyme.
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Foreshadowing

Definition
 To give hints of what may happen in the future.
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Paradox

Definition
 a self-contradictory and false proposition.
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 Perfectionism

Definition
 Having everything 100% correct.
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 Emotional Conflict

Definition
The presence in the subconscious of different and opposing emotions relating to a situation that has recently taken place.
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 Verbal Irony

Definition
a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
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Symbols

Definition
 A conventional, printed or written figure used to represent an operation, element, quantity, relation, and unit of measurement, phenomenon, or descriptor.
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Iamb

Definition
a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter.
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Exact Rhyme

Definition
When a later part of a word or phrase is identical sounding to another.
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 Alliteration

Definition
 use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.
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 Onomatopoeia

Definition
of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
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Analogy

Definition
 a similarity between like features of two things
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Universal Theme

Definition
A theme that applies to everything no matter the circumstances is.
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Repetition

Definition
the act of repeating.
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Parallelism

Definition
That repetition of words, phrases or sentences that have the same grammatical structure.
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Poetic Irony
Definition
Irony that takes place in a poem.
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Mysterious Comparison
Definition
a questionable comparison.
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Single Conflict
Definition
a literary work with one conflict.
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Inferior Fiction
Definition
Some fiction works are condemned to this title.
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Suggested Comparison
Definition
a comparison that is hinted toward in a literary work.
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