english 10 quarter 4 vocabulary list 1 alliteration repetition of beginning sounds of words....
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English 10
Quarter 4 Vocabulary
List 1
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Alliteration
Repetition of beginning sounds of words.
Example: Peter Piper Picked a Peck
Like Tongue
Twisters
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Assonance
Repeating similar sounds, especially of the vowel sound in words.
Examples: penitent and reticence
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Consonance
Repetition of consonants at the end of words
Examples: Blank and think
Strong and string
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Homonym
• a word the same as another in sound and spelling but different in meaning
Bank (an embankment--)
Bank (place where money is kept)
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Homophone
• a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not
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Rime (also spelled Rhyme)
• A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
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Onomatopoeia
• Words that imitate the sound they make.
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Lyric poetry
• a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry
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Ode
• A kind of poem devoted to the praise of a person, animal, or thing. An ode is usually written in an elevated style and often expresses deep feeling.
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Sonnet
14 line poem written in iambic
pentameter with a definite rhyme
scheme.
• Iambic unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed
syllable (like a heartbeat).
• Pentameter 5 feet = 10 syllables
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English 10
Quarter 4 Vocabulary
List 2
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Genre
A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, etc…
Example: Sonnet or A Play
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Diamante
A seven line poem, shaped like a diamond
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Two-voice Poem
Poem that expresses the opinion of two speakers on the same subject
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Free verse• Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
ONE BEAT
TWO BEATS
FOUR BEATS
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Lyric poetry
• a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry
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Cinquain
• A short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, 2, 4, 6, 8, & 2 syllables per line; any stanza of five lines
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Stanza
• An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division in a poem.
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Couplet
• Two lines of poetry that contain end rhyme
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Rhyme Scheme
• The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences (ababbcc).
• (REPETITION)
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Quatrain
four lines of poetry that contain end rhyme
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English 10
Quarter 4 Vocabulary
List 3
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Anaphora
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs
Example: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills"
(Winston S. Churchill).
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Repetition
the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
Example: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
compared to what lies within us." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Inversion
the reversal of the normal order of words
Example: saying "echoed the hills" to mean "the hills echoed."
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Declarative Sentence
• commonly makes a statement
• Example: I am going home.
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Imperative Sentence
• used to make a demand or request
• Example: Go do your homework.
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Exclamatory Sentence
• generally a more emphatic form of statement
• Example: What a wonderful day this is!
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Interrogative Sentence
• commonly used to request information —
• Example: What are you going to do all summer?
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Rhetorical Devices
• a technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in his audience (his reader(s) or listener(s)). These emotional responses are central to the meaning of the work or speech, and should also get the audience's attention.
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Style
• in literature, the mysterious yet recognizable result of a successful blending of form with content
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Syntax
sentence structure
Example: Complex sentences= When the bell rings (dependent clause), walk out (main clause).
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English 10
Quarter 4 Vocabulary
List 4
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Prose
• Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.
• Commonplace expression or quality
Example: John opened the door.
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Voice
expression in spoken or written words, or by other means
Example: She voiced her disapproval in a letter to the
committee.
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Tone
a particular style or manner, as of writing or speech;
Example: the ghoulish tone of Poe's stories .
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Persona
• the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author*
• a person's perceived or evident personality, as that of a well-known official, actor, or celebrity; personal image; public role
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Point of View
• the position of the narrator in relation to the story
Where is the
Narrator trying
To take me?
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First Person Point of View
• the narrator is a character in the story
• the first person commonly uses: "I saw, We did,", etc
Example: I jumped out of the plane.
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Objective Point of View
• can record only what is seen and heard. It cannot comment, interpret, or enter a character's mind. The purest example of a story told from the objective point would be one written entirely in dialogue .
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Omniscient Point of View
• The story is told by the author, using the third person, and his knowledge and choices are unlimited. He can interpret the behavior of his characters; he can comment, if he wishes, on the significance of the story he is telling.
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Limited Omniscient Point of View
The author tells the story in the third person, but he tells it from the viewpoint of one character in the story
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Narrative
consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
Example: narrative poetry
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English 10
Quarter 4 Vocabulary
List 5
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Mood
• refers to the general sense or feeling which the reader is supposed to get from the text
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Symbolism
A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well. Things, characters and actions can be symbols. Anything that suggests a
meaning beyond the obvious
Example: bright sunshine = goodness
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Imagery
. Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses
Example: (auditory) Mowing - the scythe whispering to the ground
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Diction
• the term for a writer or speaker's distinctive choices in vocabulary and style of expression
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Connotation
• The meaning a word takes when spoken in everyday language
• Example: Clean= tight/good
“Yo, Mrs. Huff-izzle,
that’s clean!”
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Plot
• Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work
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Static Character
• Character remains the same from beginning to end .
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Dynamic Character
• character that undergoes a significant (internal) change throughout the story
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Allusion
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare.
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Foreshadow
An author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story
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English 10
Quarter 4 Vocabulary
List 6
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Simile
• DefinitionDefinition: Comparison between two objects or ideas connecting them with the word or
• ExampleExample:
“With that came in a wealthy knight, Which was both grave and old, And after him a finikin lass, Did shine like glistening gold.”
from Robin Hood and Allin a Dale
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Metaphor
• DefinitionDefinition: Comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.
• ExampleExample:
You are a tulip.
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Hyperbole
• DefinitionDefinition: Exaggeration or overstatement.
• ExamplesExamples:
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.He's as big as a house.
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Understatement
• to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out
• Example: The lessons I learn in Mrs. Huff’s English class will only help me in school.
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Personification
Definition:Definition: Giving human characteristics to animals, ideas, or inorganic objects.
Example:Example: “The wind stood up and gave a shout.”
- from The Wind by James Stephens
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Irony
• Irony is the contrast between what is expected or what appears to be and what actually is.
• Example: ‘How nice!’ when I said I had to work all weekend.
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Theme
• The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work
• Example: "it was the usual 'boy gets girl' theme"
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Oxymoron
• a figure of speech which produces seemingly self-contradictory effect
• Example: “cruel kindness”
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Paradox
A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.
Example: Standing is more tiring than walking.
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Pun
The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.