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Connotation
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An idea or feeling that a word invokes person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Ex. The word "discipline" has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression. |
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Denotation
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The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
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Kenning
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A compound expression.
Ex. oar-steed |
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Diction
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The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
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Syntax
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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
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Assonance
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The repetition of stressed vowels.
Ex. Penitence, reticence |
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Consonance
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Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.
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Mood
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The overall feeling of the poem. DIFFERENT FROM TONE.
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Tone
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The overall feeling the reader get's from the story.
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Verbal Irony
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A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
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Situational Irony
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Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
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Dramatic Irony
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Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
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Satire
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The use of humor, irony exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity.
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Didactic
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Intended to teach, particularly for moral instruction.
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Blocking
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Planning stage movements
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Monologue
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A long speech by one actor in a play or movie.
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Soliloquy
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An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers.
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Blank Verse
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Distinguishing from Iambic Pentameter
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Foot
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Stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Caesura
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A break between words within a metrical foot.
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Ethical Appeal
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The writer creates a sense of him or herself as trustworthy and credible.
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Rational/Logic Appeal
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Using logic/evidence to convince the audience.
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Emotional Appeal
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Targeting the emotion of the reader.
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Syllogism
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An instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn.
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Logical Fallacies
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Mistakes in reasoning.
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Heroic Epic
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Poetry celebrating the deeds of a hero.
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Heroic Couplets
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Used in epics, poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines.
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Medieval Romances
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A tale of high adventure, can be a religious crusade, a conquest, or the rescue of a lady.
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Pilgrimage
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A pilgrim's journey.
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Fabliaux
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A metrical tale, typically a humorous one.
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Allegory
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A story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral one.
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Rhetorical Strategy
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The ways writers and poets use words and language to persuade.
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Anglo-Saxon
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Relating to the Germanic inhabitants of England from their arrival in the 5th Century up to the Norman Conquest.
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English Renaissance
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The time when England was being ruled by hierarchy's and poetry and plays were coming alive.
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Old English
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The language of the Anglo-Saxons, largely Germanic vocabulary.
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Wergild
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A set of stories set in the Anglo-Saxon Period.
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Middle English
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The English language used from 1150-1470.
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Chivalric Code
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The sets of rules a knight in the Middle Ages had to follow.
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Hubris
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Excessive pride or self confidence
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The First Folio
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First of Shakespeare's plays.
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The King's Men
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An acting group of William Shakespeare's.
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Thrust stage
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A stage that extends into the auditorium so that the audience is seated around three sides.
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The Globe Theater
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A theater in London where many of Shakespeare's plays were first publicly performed.
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Groundlings
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A spectator/reader of inferior taste (people in the theater who stood in the pit beneath the stage)
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Big Brother
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The imaginary dictator of Oceania that is ruling a totalitarian state. (On all the posters, scares people, propaganda)
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IngSoc
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The political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania.
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Telescreen
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Television and security camera like devices used by the ruling party of Oceania to keep its subjects under surveillance.
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Doublethink
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The mental capacity to accept two different ideas at the same time.
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Bear Pit
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A type of theater where you can see everything that's going on.
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Hierarchy
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A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
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Infallible
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Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong.
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Unorthodox
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Contrary to what is usual, traditional or accepted.
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Oligarchic
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A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
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Proles
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A member of the working class; a worker.
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Expedient
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Convenient and practical
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Dissemble
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To conceal one's true feelings, beliefs, or motives.
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Covert
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Not openly acknowledged or displayed.
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Effeminate
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Having characteristics of a woman.
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Preposterous
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Contrary to reason or common sense.
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Ravenous
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Extremely hungry
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Depredation
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An act of attacking
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Marauders
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Roam in search of things to steal or people to attack.
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Buoyant
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Able to stay afloat
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Regalia
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The emblems of royalty
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Parley
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A conference between opposing sides in a dispute.
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Heathenish
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A person who does not belong to a widely held religion.
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Monger
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Dealer/trader
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Stalwart
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Loyal, reliable, and hardworking.
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Lament
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A passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
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Rancor
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Bitterness or resentfulness
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Jocund
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Cheerful or lighthearted
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Usurp
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To take a position of power illegally or by force.
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Calamity
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An event causing great distress.
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Inter
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Place in a grave or tomb
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Entreat
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Ask someone anxiously to do something.
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Swoon
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Faint from extreme emotion.
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Burnish
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To polish
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Pompous
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Affectedly and irritatingly grand.
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