English 240 First Quiz

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Allusion

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A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature.

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Allegory

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A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas.

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Ambiguity

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Allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation, all of which can be supported by the context of a work.

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Apostrophe

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An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend.

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Cliche

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An idea or expression that has become tired and trite from overuse, its freshness and clarity having worn off.

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Connotation

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Associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meaning and deriving from how the word has been commonly used and the associations people make with it.

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Denotation

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The dictionary meaning of a word

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Diction

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A writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning.

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Dramatic Monologue/Persona Poem

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A type of lyric poem in which a character(the speaker) addresses a distinct but silent audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal a dramatic situation and, often unintentionally some aspect of his or her temperament or personality.

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Hyperbole/Overstatement

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A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true.

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Image

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A word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings or actions.

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Metonymy

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Type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison btw. two unlike things w/o using the words like or as.

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Controlling Metaphor

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runs through an entire work and determines its form or nature.

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Implied Metaphor

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a more subtle comparison; the terms being compared are not so specifically explained.

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Oxymoron

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A condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together.

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Paradox

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A statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense.

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Personification

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A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things.

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Simile

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A common figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as like, as, than, appears, and seems.

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Syntax

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The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.

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Symbol

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A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance.

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Synecdoche

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Kind of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, as when a gossip is called a "wagging tongue."

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Tone

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The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author's style.

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Sentimentality

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A pejorative term used to describe the effort by an author to induce emotional responses in the reader that exceed what the situation warrants.

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Understatement

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The opposite of hyperbole, refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended.

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Tactile image

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touch imagery

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Olfactory image

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smell imagery

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Aural image

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hear imagery

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Visual image

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sight imagery

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Oral image

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taste imagery