English 10 Final Review

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Stanza?

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Stanza is a unified group of lines in poetry. Often considered to be a poetic paragraph

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Quatrain?

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A verse stanza of four lines, often rhyming abab

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Narrative Poem?

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A narrative poem tells a story in verse. Three traditional types of narrative verse are ballads, epics, and metrical romances.

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Tone?

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quality or character of sound.

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Voice?

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a range of such sounds distinctive to one person, or to a type of person or animal.

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Lyrical Poetry?

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communicates a speaker's mood, feeling, or state of mind.

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Abstract words?

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has one meaning but the speaker means another.

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Formal diction?

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A formal style of writing in regard to choice of words and grammar.

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Iambic pentameter?

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An unrhymed line of five feet in which the dominant accent usually falls on the second syllable of each foot (di dum), a pattern know as an iamb. The form is very flexible: it is possible to have one or more feet in which expected order of accent is reversed (dum di).

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Alliteration?

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is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. example: sweet smell of success.

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Assonance?

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is the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds as in consonance. example: fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks.

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Euphony?

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is soothing pleasant sounds. It's the opposite of cacophony. example: O star, the fairest one in sight.

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Onomatopeia?

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is a word that imitates the sound it represents. example: splash, wow, snap.

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Consonance?

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is the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowel, as in assonance. example: lady lounges lazily.

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Cacophony?

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is harsh, discordant sounds. It's the opposite of euphony. example: finger of birth-strangled babe.

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Informal diction?

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type of writing where there are few large words or complicated speaking.

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Blank verse?

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unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Forced rhyme?

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distortion of pronunciation (often for comical purposes).

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Eye rhyme?

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Two words that look like they rhyme but don't.

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Rhyme scheme?

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The pattern of end-rhyming words in a poem. Uses letter of the alphabet to stand for sounds. Example ABAB, ABBB, ABBA.

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External rhymes?

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Rhyming words that occur at the end of lines of poetry.

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Imperfect rhymes?

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Two words that don't look alike but sound similar. example: tomb + worm

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Rhyming couplets?

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Two lines of poetry, one following the other, that end in rhyming words.

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Connotation?

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The suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes.

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Allusion?

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A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

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End rhyme?

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Same as external rhymes. rhyming words at the end of lines of poetry.

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Perfect rhymes?

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Rhymed sounds that is exact, a "full" rhyme or "true" rhyme. example: still + hill.

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Internal rhyme?

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A rhyme that occurs inside the verse line.

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Imagery?

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The descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader.

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Sonnet?

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A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme. The two main types of sonnets are the petrarchan and the Shakespearean.

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Simile?

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is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

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Denotation?

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The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it.

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Metaphor?

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comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as as in a simile.

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Tragic hero?

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A privileged, exalted character of high repute who, because of a dramatic flaw suffers a fall from glory.

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Tragic flaw?

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A weakness or limitation of a character resulting in the downfall of the tragic hero.

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Comic relief?

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An amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements in a play to provide temporary relief from tension.

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Foil?

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A character whose purpose is to contrast another character.

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Oxymoron?

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Figure of speech which is self-contradictory. example: cruel kindness

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Pun?

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Humorous use of a word or phrase to emphasize or suggest different meaning.

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Aside?

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A part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on stage but for the audience.

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Soliloquy?

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A speech on stage that's meant to be heard by audience no by other actors. similar to aside.

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Dramatic irony?

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When the words or actions of a character have a different meaning to the audience.

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Tragedy?

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Type of Drama in which the character experiences reverse of fortune, usually for the worse.

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Concrete Words

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Specific rather than general or abstract terms.