Term
|
Definition
Active voice is used in a clause whose subject expresses the agent of the main verb. That is, the subject does the action designated by the verb. .
In the active voice, the object receives the action of the verb |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
-A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
-A contrast or opposition between two things. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. |
|
|
Term
Argumentative Essay
[image] |
|
Definition
An argumentative essay is an essay that is written to provide a persuasive argument to an opposing audience in order to change their minds |
|
|
Term
Anecdotal Evidence
[image] |
|
Definition
| Non-scientific observations or studies, which do not provide proof but may assist research efforts |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Words and phrases that were used regularly in a language, but are now less common are archaic. Such words and phrases are often used deliberately to refer to earlier times. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A remark by a character in a play intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting, and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The people that will read/watch/listen to your work. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A history of a person's life written or told by that person. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a stanza consisting of four lines with the first and third lines unrhymed iambic tetrameters and the second and fourth lines rhymed iambic trimeters |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An account of someone's life written by someone else. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter.
|
|
|
