English Iii Vocabulary

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Alliteration

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Example Sentence: apt alliteration's artful aid.

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Allusion

Back 2

A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.

Example Sentence: The novel's title is an allusion to Shakespeare.

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Antithesis

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The placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas. The second sentence or part thus set in opposition.

Example Sentence:

“Give me liberty or give me death.” ; “or give me death.”.

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Apostrophe

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Indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, to indicate the possessive case.

Example Sentence:

- o'er for over

- gov't for government
- man's

-M.D.'s, 3's.

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Assonance

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The same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words.

Example Sentence: penitent and reticence.

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Blank Verse

Back 6

Unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Example Sentence: English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.

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Caesura

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A break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse.

Example Sentence: Presume not God to scan.

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Consonance

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The use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.

Example Sentence: “an expert hand must con­stantly bring disharmony back to consonance.”

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Couplet

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A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.

Example Sentence: Did they ever consider selecting the first line of this couplet for the title of their edition?

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Diction

Back 10

the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound qualitymanifested by an individual speaker.

Example Sentence:

The diction is simple, the humor is soft and his subjects deal with the relatable details of daily life.

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End-Stopped

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Ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking and a punctuation mark in writing.

Example Sentence:

Here we have blank verse, distinctively

Fletcherian, with its feminine endings and its

end-stopped lines.

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Enjambment

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The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.

Example Sentence: The piece is vigorous, if not quite Clevelandish in the presence of some enjambment, and the absence of extravagant conceit.

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Extended Metaphor

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Introduced and then further developed

throughout all or part of a literary work.

Example Sentence: Allegory in the sense of Quintilian as a trope, an extended metaphor, Wilson mentions only once.

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Free Verse

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Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.

Example Sentence:

But I do object to free verse when it is organized into a cult that denies other freedoms to other poets!

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Hyperbole

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An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally.

Example Sentence: "to wait an eternity."

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Imagery

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The use of rhetorical images

Example Sentence:

But Seapunk diehards may not have

the right to complain if celebrities endorse their imagery

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Juxtaposition

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An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Example Sentence: Even more importantly, what do our foreign friends and adversaries think of this juxtaposition?

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.

Example Sentence:

If you want to explore music as a metaphor for sociopolitical affairs, this novel is the place to start.

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Meter

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Poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rythmic lines or verses.

Example Sentence:

There's a kind of a meter for it, which I've spoken of before.

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Mood

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A prevailing emotional tone or general attitude.

Example Sentence:

The mood last year was cautious, restrained, but still optimistic.

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Narrative Poetry

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Form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.

Example Sentence: epics, ballads, idylls, and lays.

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect.

Example Sentence:

Mao, the term for a "cat", is obviously an example of onomatopoeia.

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect.

Example Sentence: “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”

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Paradox

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A self-contradictory and false proposition.

Example Sentence:

LaPlante has witnessed firsthand the paradox of dementia and Alzheimer's, with alternating phases of deterioration and lucidity.

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Parallelism

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Agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel.

Example Sentence:

It must be remembered that there is no parallelism in the chronology of the beginnings of the North and the South.

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Personification

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The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions.

Example Sentence:

In 1968, Ted Nugent was a lightning rod, a

personification of transformational freedom.

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Quatrain

Back 27

A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with

alternate rhymes.

Example Sentence:

In a quatrain the lines which do not rhyme must end on the opposite tone to that of the rhyme.

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Rhyme

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Identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of a verse.

Example Sentence:

He liked to take a song and add words to it, and the words he added would always match and rhyme with the song.

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Rhythm

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Movement or procedure with uniform or

patterned recurrence of abeat, accent,

or the like.

Example Sentence:

You can perhaps say he’s drunk, on love or

on the rhythm and feel of the '20s air, on the promise of a high.

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Satire

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The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like,

in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

Example Sentence:

In a desperate bid to close the gap, our satire

columnist says the McCain camp— whoops, unnamed sources!

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Simile

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A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared.

Example Sentence: “she is like a rose.”

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Situational Irony

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Involving a situation in which actions have an

effect that is opposite from what was

intended, the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

Example Sentence:

the difference between what is expected to

happen and what actually does.

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Stanza

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A certain number of lines, usually four or more,sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming advision of a poem.

Example Sentence:

Finally, just before the tenth stanza, a

crestfallen Alvarado whispered that he was done.

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Symbol

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Something used for or regarded as representing something else.

Example Sentence:

Indeed, “Deir Yassin,” for many, has become the symbol of the Nakba.

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Syntax

Back 35

The study of the patterns of formation of

sentences and phrases from words.

Example Sentence:

The style is stuffy, the syntax is antique, and the conceit is never really convincing.

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Tone

Back 36

Any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.

Example Sentence:

And then one day,” Furry went on, his tone

altering slightly, “she upped and quit me, said I had married her for her money.

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Understatement

Back 37

Act or an instance of understating, or

representing in a weak or restrained way

Example Sentence:

The journalist wrote that the earthquake had

caused some damage. This turned out to be a

massive understatement of the devastation.

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Verbal Irony

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Uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.

Example Sentence:

The verbal irony in the story would have played well in the first century.