English Final Exam

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Simile

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a comparison using like or as. He’s strong as a bull.

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Metaphor

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a comparison without the use of like or as, direct comparison. He’s a beast.

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Alliteration

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repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem. The fl and t sound “many a flirt and flutter”

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Onomatopoeia

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use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. Crackle, pop

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Personification

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kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. The wind howled.

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Lyric

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Poetry that does not tell a story but aimed only at expressing a speaker’s emotions or thoughts.

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Epic

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long story told in elevated language (usually poetry), which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society. Odyssey

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Blank Verse

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In unrhymed iambic pentameter, has the same beat

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Free Verse

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written without meter or structure. Does not rhyme or have similar beat.

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Rhymed couplet

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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

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Internal rhyme

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occurs in the middle of a line.

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Irony

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contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality – between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true. Verbal, writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different. Situational, when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or when there is a contradiction between what we expect to happen and what really does take place. Dramatic, when the audience knows something important that a character in a story does not know.

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Prose

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which does not have the rhythmic qualities or poetry and which tends to be less concentrated in language or ideas

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Flashback

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scene in a story that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time.

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Dialogue

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when two people speak to each other

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Rising Event

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series of complications leading to the crisis or turning point

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Denouement

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the resolution, the ending

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Point of View

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First Person, a character in the story talks to the audience. I. Second Person, you are telling the story, You. Third Person limited, narrator not involved in story and we are limited on the character like thought. Third Person Omniscient, all knowing.

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Run-on sentence

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when two different thoughts are in one sentence.

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Compound sentence

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has two or more independent clauses but no subordinate clauses.

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Complex sentence

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has one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause. Juliet declared her love for Romeo before she spoke to him.

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Compound-complex sentence

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contains two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clauses.

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Subordinate clause

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a clause that cannot stand alone. It needs another phrase to be correct.

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Prepositional phrase

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begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun that is called the object of the preposition. The sniper ran across the street.

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Appositive

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a word or phrase appearing next to a noun or pronoun that renames or identifies as the same. Ms. Banchi, my English teacher

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Predicate nominative

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follows a linking verb and explains or identifies the subject of the verb. The woman who borrows the necklace is she.

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Antecedent

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the word a pronoun stands for. When Bob was at the game he caught a ball.

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Pronoun

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a word that takes the place of a noun

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Declarative

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a sentence that makes a statement

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Imperative

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makes a request or give a command

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Interrogative

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asks a question

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Exclamatory

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expresses strong feeling followed by a !

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Direct object

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follows an action verb and tells whom or what. Bob destroyed them.

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Indirect object

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comes before a direct object and tells to whom or to what or for whom or for what. Buddy gave her a kite.

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Object of a preposition

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comes at the end of a phrase that begins with a preposition. The gift is for him and her.

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Divided Quotation

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“Ms. Banchi,” Jenn said, “is the meanest teacher ever!”

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Direct Address

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when you are directly talking to the person

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Aesthetic

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artistic, pleasing to the eye

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Autonomy

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a self-governing state, community or group; independent

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Bourgeois

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person in the middle class

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Colloquial

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fashion of speech; the way you talk

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Contemptuous

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feeling contempt; scornful

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Diminutive

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small in size; small

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Facilitate

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to make easier

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Heresy

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going against the majority belief

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Indignant

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angry

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Innate

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inherit by birth

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Insipid

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lacking flavor; dull

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Malleable

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able to adjust; adaptable

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Meticulous

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careful; extremely detailed

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Plausible

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acceptable

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Qualm

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sudden feeling of sickness

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Quantitative

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expressed in quantity

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Sadistic

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cruel

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Subsidize

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to assist; help

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Transcend

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pass beyond limits; surpass

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Vigilant

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careful; attentive