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Midterm Exam Vocab
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English
12th Grade
12/14/2010

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Allegory
Definition
parabolic short story
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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Allusion
Definition
reference to an idea, place, person or other literary work.
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Analogy
Definition
a comparison between two dissimilar things to clarify a point.
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Angle-Saxon poetry
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Antagonist
Definition
The opposing or rival character
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Aphorism
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A brief statement containing an important truth or fundamental principle.
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Argumentation
Definition
type of writing that develops or debates a topic in a logical or persuasive way
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Aside
Definition
character speaks to the audience
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Assonance
Definition
refrain of vowel sounds
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Autobiography
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Ballad
Definition
long song or poem that tells a story
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Biography
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Caesure- under Angle Saxon
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Comedy
Definition
humorous drama with a happy ending
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Connotation
Definition
implied meaning of a word or phrase
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Couplet
Definition
pair of lines with rhyming end words
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Denotation
Definition
basic or literal meaning of a word
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Dialect
Definition
form of speech or language
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Dialogue
Definition
conversation between two or more persons
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Diction
Definition
choice of words, phrases, sentence
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Dramatic Irony
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when the audience knows something the character does not
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Elegy
Definition
a mournful poem
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Epic
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narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
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Epitaph
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brief poem or statement in memory of someone who is deceased
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Epitaph
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Fable
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a short moral story
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Figurative language
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use of words/phrases to evoke visual images
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Foreshadowing
Definition
when the author suggests something in advance
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Hyperbole
Definition
Extreme exaggeration or overstatement
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Iambic pentameter
Definition
Ten-syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed.
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Irony
Definition
difference in what is expected and what occurs
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Metaphor
Definition
metaphor is an analogy between two objects or ideas
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Motif
Definition
theme that is repeated
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
a word sounding like what it represents
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Parable
Definition
moral story
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Oxymoron
Definition
contradictory terms are combined
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Paradox
Definition
statement that contradicts itself
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Parallelism
Definition
two or more parts of the sentences with similar form
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Protagonist
Definition
main character in a literary work
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Satire
Definition
exposes human folly using irony and sarcasm
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Sonnet
Definition
poem with 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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Symbol
Definition
something that represents something else
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Tone
Definition
mood of the author
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