Sound And Sense Exam: Chapters 1-6, 9, 14-15

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paraphrase

Back 1

to restate in different language

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theme

Back 2

central idea

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denotation

Back 3

dictionary definition of a word

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connotation

Back 4

what the word suggests beyond what it expresses: its overtones of meaning

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imagery

Back 5

the representation through language of sense experience

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visual imagery

Back 6

suggests a mental picture

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auditiory imagery

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represents a sound

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olfactory imagery

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represents a smell

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gustatory imagery

Back 9

represents a taste

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tactile imagery

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represents touch, such as hardness, softness, wetness, or heat and cold

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organic imagery

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represents an internal sensation, such as hunger thirst, fatugue, or nausea

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kinesthetic imagery

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represents movement or tension in the muscles or joints

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figure of speech

Back 13

any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; a way of saying one thing and meaning another.

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figurative language

Back 14

language using figures of speeach; shouldn't be taken literally

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personification

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giving the atributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept

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simile

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used as a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike; the comparison is expressed by the use of some word or phrase, asuch as like, as, than, similar to, resembles or seems.

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metaphor

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used as a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike; comparison is not expressed, but is created when a figurative term is substitued for or identified with the literal term.

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apostrophe

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consists in addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing were present or alive and could reply to what is being said.

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synecdoche

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the use of the part for the whole

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metonymy

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the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant.

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symbol

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something that means more than what it is

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allegory

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a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface

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total meaning

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the experience it communicates (and which can be communicated in no other way)

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prose meaning

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the ingredient that can be seperated out int eh form of a prose paragraph

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structure

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the arrangement of ideas, images, thoughts, and sentences

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form

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external shape

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fixed form

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a traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem

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limerick

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a fixed for whose pattern is anapestic; aa3bb2a3

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sonnet

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must be fourteen lines in length, and it almost always is iambic pentameter, but in strocture and rhyme scheme there may be considerable leeway

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Italian Sonnet

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divided usually between eight lines called the octave, using two rhymes arranged abbaabba, and six lines called the sestet, using any arrangement of two or three rhymes

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English Sonnet

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cosisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg

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villanelle

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19 lines are divided in five 3 line stanzas and a four line concluding quatrain; A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 AbA2 abA1A2

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sentimentality

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indulgence in emotion for its own sake, or expression of more emotion than an occasion warrants

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rhetorical

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uses a language more glittering and high-flown than an occassion warrants

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didactic

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has a primary purpose to teach or preach