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english final review litereary terms
english final review litereary terms
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Language - Spanish
9th Grade
06/15/2010

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narrative
Definition
story bieng told by a person out of the story
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ballad
Definition
a form of verse, often a narrative set to music
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epic
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a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds
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haiku
Definition
syllables 575 usally about nature
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simile
Definition
comparing two seeminglyunlike things using 1 of the words like or as
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metaphor
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comparing 2 seeming unlike things
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rhyme
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A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words
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rhythm
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a flow of stressed and unstressed syllables
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assonance
Definition
the repitition of vowel sounds in a word
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consonance
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the repitition of consanant sounds inside a word
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ono
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onomatopoeia
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a word describing a sound eg. drip drop
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alliteration
Definition
the repitition of consanant sounds in the first letter of a word
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imagery
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descriptive words that "paint a picture in you're mind"
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repitition
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repeting of words, letters, sounds...
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parallelisim
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Parallelism refers to the repetition of sentence structure or word order to achieve a rhythmical effect
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exposition
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a systematic interpretation or explanation on a specific topic
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climax
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the highest point in action in a story or poem or play etc
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setting
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the time and place in which a story, poem, play etc
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narritave hook
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it is the part in a narritave poem, story, play etc that keeps the reader interested
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plot
Definition
what happenes
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foreshadowing
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clues to something that will happen later on in the story, poem, play, etc
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symbolisim
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something symbolizing something eg the US flag symbolizes freedom
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flashback
Definition
when a person in the story goes back in the past
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irony
Definition
when the oppisite of what you would ecpect to happen happens
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suspense
Definition
when there is a straining thing happening
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monolouge
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an extended speech given by a character alone on stage
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dialouge
Definition
a conversation between 2 people or more
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aside
Definition
An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience
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soliloquy
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a extended speech given by one character accompanied by more than one person but the person talking is the only one able to hear it
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mood
Definition
the feeling of the play, poem, story, etc
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free verse
Definition
verse with no set rhyme or meter
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protagonist
Definition
the main character of a story, poem, play, etc
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foil
Definition
a character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work
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meter
Definition
In poetry, the meter (or metre) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse
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stanza
Definition
a section of lines in poetry
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hyperbole
Definition
an exggaseration of something
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understatement
Definition
saying something less than it actually is
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couplet
Definition
2 consecutive lines that rhyme
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couplet
Definition
2 consecutive lines that rhyme
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