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List of Terms
List of Terms
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English
11th Grade
02/09/2009

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Active Voice

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Definition
the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb.
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Allegory

 

Definition
The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
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Alliteration

 

"Peter Piper, picked a peck of pickled peppers

Definition
the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter.
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Allusion

 

Definition
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.
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Analogy

Definition
the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language.
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Antagonist
Definition
a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
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Anti-Climax
Definition
A disappointing decline after a previous rise.
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Antithesis
Definition

the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas.

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Aposthrophe
Definition
a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea.
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Aside
Definition
a temporary departure from a main theme or topic,  a parenthetical comment or remark; short digression
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Assonance
Definition
resemblance of sounds.
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Atmosphere
Definition
the dominant mood or emotional tone of a work of art, as of a play or novel.
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Audience
Definition
a regular public that manifests interest, support, enthusiasm.
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Autobiography
Definition
a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
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Ballad

 

Definition
any poem written in similar style.
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Bias
Definition

Bias is a term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result, especially when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or objective.

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Biography
Definition
a written account of another person's life.
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Blank Verse
Definition
unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
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