English 9

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Oxymoron

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When 2 opposite ideas are joined together for effect.

"Jumbo shrimp"

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Signal Phrase

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Phrase that indicates upcoming quote

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Free Verse

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Modern poem with no constraints or restrictions

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Ballad

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Narrative, usually with more repetition and arranged in quatrains. Often includes dialogue.

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Narrative

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A poem that tells a story and organizes its action according to a sequence of time.

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Lyric Poem

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Song-like poem, filled with emotion

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Eye rhymes

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2 or more words that look like they should rhyme but don't.

"break, teak"

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Internal rhymes

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When a word or phrase in the middle of a line rhymes with a word or phrase at the end of a line.

"Old king Cole, was a merry old soul."

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Feminine rhymes

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Rhymes that have two syllables

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Masculine rhymes

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Rhymes that are monosyllabic

(Rhymes that have one syllable)

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Couplet

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A pair of lines. If they rhyme; rhyming couplet

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Quatrain

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Four lined stanza

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Stanzas

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Paragraph in a poem

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Consonance

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Repetition of final consonant sounds in consecutive words.

"ing"

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning or middle of consecutive words.

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Onomatopeia

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When the sound of word suits its meaning.

"Meow"

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Hyperbole

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A deliberate exaggeration which cannot logically be believed.

"I gave him mountains of help."

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Repitition

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Repeated lines or words to create rhythm.

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Personification

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When human or living qualities are given to non human or inanimate objects.

"The breeze whispered as it drifted by."

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Metaphor

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A comparison without use of the words like or as.

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Simile

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Comparison using the words like or as.

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Fragmented sentence

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Incomplete sentence

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Run on sentence

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Sentence in which two or more independent clauses are joined without an appropriate punctuation or conjunction.

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Character foil

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Character who contrasts attitudes and behaviors towards protagonist.

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Symbolism

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Represents more than the object or something that means more than itself.

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Static

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Does not change

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Dynamic

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Changes

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Round

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Many character traits are learned.

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Flat

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One character trait is learned.

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Foreshadow

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A warning or indication of a future event.

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Alitteration

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The repetition of consonant sounds.

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Irony

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The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically in a humorous or emphatic way.

"The fire station caught on fire."

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Protagonist

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The main character

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Setting

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Time and place

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Indirect characterization

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You learn something about a character through another character.

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Direct characterization

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The author tells you something directly about a character.

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Epiphany

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A sudden realization of truth.

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Dialogue

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When there is speech.

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Suspence

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The intense part leading up to a large event.

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The third person limited omniscient point of view

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Someone in the third person who does not know much about what is going on in the story.

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Give 3 examples of contrasting transition words.

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However, in contrast, but, yet, unlike,on the other hand, even though, whereas, nevertheless, while

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Give three examples of comparative transition words.

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Since, moreover, similarly, as well as, still, likewise, therefore, also, furthermore, in the same way, each of, in addition, both

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Subordinating conjunctions

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For adjective clauses

Clauses that act as adjectives to modify or describe a noun or pronoun.

"that, where, what, when, who, how, which, why"

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Coordinating conjunction

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A conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank.

"and, but, or"

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Structure of a complex/compound sentence

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Dependent +2 independent

"Although the students laughed together, they were not having a good time, and they left the party."

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Structure of a complex sentence

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Dependent + independent

"Although the students laughed together, they were not having a good time."

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Structure of a compound sentence

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Subject + verb, subject + verb (both independent)

"The dog ran because he saw a squirrel."

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Structure of a simple sentence

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Subject + verb

"The dog walked."