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English
11th Grade
12/18/2011

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A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms_________________
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Allegory
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The commencement of two or more stressed syllables _____________
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Alliteration
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An incidental mention of something________________
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Allusion
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A similarity between like features of two things____________________
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analogy
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A repetition of words at the beginning of two or more sentences_______________
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anaphora
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Something not in it’s correct time period____________________
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anachronism
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A short account of a particular incident, of an amusing nature_______________
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anecdote
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A person who is opposed to, struggles against__________________
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antagonist
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A terse saying embodying the general truth______________
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aphorism
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An oral disagreement____________
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arguement
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Resemblance of sounds, vowel rhyme_____________
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asonance
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The omission of conjunctions, audience____________
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asyndeton
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Unrhymed verse ______________
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blank verse
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A recurring theme_________________
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motif
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The fundamental unit of length___________
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meter
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A person who gives an account or tells a story_________________
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narrator
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A character in a story quickly recognized and accepted by the reader_________________
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stock character
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A poem of 6 line stanzas, 3 line envoy, without rhyme_______________
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sestina
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Portrayal, description stanza_________________
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characterization
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A simple narrative poem of folk origin________________
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ballad
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The explicit or direct meanings of a word or expression_________________
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denotation
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An elaborate, fanciful metaphor, of a far fetched nature_________________
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conceit
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The study of the formation of sentences_____________________
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syntax
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The hero, leading character_______________
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protagonist
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An unclear, indefinite, expression________________
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ambiguity
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In rhetoric, a digression in the form of an address to someone not present________________
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apostrophe
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A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another _______
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metonyme
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The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects_______________
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personification
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Two unlike things compared using like or as____________
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simile
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The act or an instance of understating____________
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understatement
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Irony inherited in speeches or a situation of drama________________
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dramatic irony
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Irony in which a person says or writes on thing and means another_________________
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verbal irony
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Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite of what is intended___________
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situation of irony
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The locale or period____________
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setting
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The metrical analysis of verse__________________
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scansion
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A unifying or dominate idea_________________
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theme
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A plan scheme or main story________________
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plot
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Verse that doesn’t follow a fixed pattern____________________
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free verse
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The associated emotion or secondary meaning of a word________________
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connotation
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An event or scene taking place before the present time_______________
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flashback
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Having the form of musical quality_____________
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lyric
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To demand_____________
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claim
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A break, especially a sense pause___________________
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ceasura
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To come into collision_____________
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conflict
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The act of assorting items into categories for comparison and contrast_______________
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classification and division
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Accord or agreement_________________
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consonance
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A pair of successful lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are the same length____________
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couplet
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An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions that gather detail ______________
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cumulative sentence
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The final resolution________________
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denoeument
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Style of speaking_______________
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diction
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Intended for instruction, instructive_____________
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didactic
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The running on of one thought from one line to the next_______________________
Definition
enjambment
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A poem form in which a single character addresses a silent auditor at a critical moment________________
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dramatic monologue
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Any witty ingenious, or pointed tersely saying________________
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epigram
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A commemorative inscription on a tomb_________________
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epigraph
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A characterizing word firmly associated with a person_________________________
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epithet
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Agreement in direction, tendency____________
Definition
parrallelism
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A restatement of text giving the meaning in another form_____________________
Definition
paraphrase
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A humorous or satirical imitation of a piece of literature_______________
Definition
parody
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A sentence that by leaving out the completion of its main clause to the end, produces suspense___________
Definition
periodic sentence
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The unauthorized use of the language and thoughts of another author______________
Definition
plagarism
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A process of separating any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements___________________
Definition
process analysis
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Interest or concern of the actual or real_________________
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realism
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The study of the effective use of language____________________
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rhetoric
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The romantic style or movement in literature______________
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romanticism
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The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule__________________
Definition
satire
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An utterance of discourse by a person who is talking to himself________________
Definition
soliloque
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A sonnet form popularized by Petrarch _____________________
Definition
Petrarchean Sonnet
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A sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab_________________
Definition
Shakespearean Sonnet
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Thought regarded as a succession of ideas and images constantly moving forward in time_______________
Definition
Stream Of Consciousness
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A particular kind, sort, type_____________________
Definition
style
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A comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recuperating previously stated facts________________
Definition
summary
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Something used in regard for something else_________________
Definition
symbol
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A proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be proved________________
Definition
thesis
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A sentence that explicitly identifies the purpose of the paper________________
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thesis statement
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A sentence that expresses the essential idea of each paragraph_______________
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topic sentence
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A particular quality, way of sounding___________________
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tone
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Philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the process of a thought_________________
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transcendentalism
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Movement or passage from one position to another______________
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transition
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Any expressive use of language as a simile, metaphor, personification_____________
Definition
figure of speech
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The placing of a sentence or one of it’s parts against another _______________
Definition
anti thesis
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Obvious and intentional exaggeration_________________
Definition
hyperbole
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A figure of speech in which a term is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable__________
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metaphor
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The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive or harsh_________
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euphemism
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Something that exemplifies_________________
Definition
exemplification
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An act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining __________________
Definition
exposition
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A misleading or unsound argument___________________
Definition
fallacy
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Of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor_________________
Definition
figurative language
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A keep a person from succeeding_______________________
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foil
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To show or indicate before hand_____________________
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foreshadow
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The formation of mental images________________________
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imagery
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A rhyme scheme created by words within two or more lines of a verse__________________
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internal rhyme
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Distinctive, sometimes picturesque characteristics or peculiarities_______________
Definition
locale color
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An act of misusing words ridiculously____________
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malapropism
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A state or quality of feeling _________________________
Definition
mood
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A deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view
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naturalism
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The formation of a word, such as cuckoo meow, honk, boom__________________
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onomontapea
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A figure of speech by which locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self contradictory effect paradox________________________
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oxymoron
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