English Final Vocab Words

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moira

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individual fate

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hamartia

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tragic flaw

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hubris

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self pride which creates suffering

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catharsis

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emotional purgation felt by the audience of a tragedy

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lex talionis

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law of the talon; eye for an eye

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logos

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the word; power of argument and logic

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anagnoresis

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moment of recognition in a tragedy- ignorance to knowledge

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oikos

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household; center of family

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ob skena

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off stage; too violent to show on stage

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peripeteia

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moment of reversal in a tragedy

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allegory

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using character/story elements to symbolically represent and abstraction in adition to literal meaning

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alliteration

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repetition of initial cononant sounds in 2 or more neighboring words

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allusion

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direct or indirect reference to something supposedly commonly known

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ambiguity

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multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage

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analogy

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similarity or comparison between 2 different things witha relationship between them.

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aphorism

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terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle

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apostrophe

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directly addressing an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction

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atmosphere

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emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, est. by setting and choice of objects described

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coloquial

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use of slang or informalities in speech or writing, conversational tone, local or regional dialects

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conceit

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fanciful expression, extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects

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connotation

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nonliteral, associative meaning of a word

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denotation

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strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude or color

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diction

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related to style, writer's word choices

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didactic

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teaching, works that aim to teach or instruct, moral or ethical principles

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euphemism

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good speech, less offensive substitutes

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extended metaphor

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metaphor developed at great lenth, occuring frequently in or throughout a work

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figurative language

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writing or speech not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid

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figure of speech

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device used to produce figurative language

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genre

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major category in which a literary work fits: prose, poetry and drama; fiction or nonfiction

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homily

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sermon, any serious talk, speech or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice

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hyperbole

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deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, comic effect

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imagery

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sensory details or fig. language used to descibe, arouse emotion, or represent abstraction

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inference

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to draw a reasonable concludion from information presented

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invective

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emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language

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irony

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contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant: verbal, situational, and dramatic

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metaphor

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using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things without using like or as

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metonomy

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"changed label" or "substitute name" one object substituted for something closely related

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mood

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prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work

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narrative

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telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events

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onomatorpoeia

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natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words

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oxymoron

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"pointedly foolish", apparently contradictory terms grouped to suggest a paradox

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paradox

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statement that appears to be self-contradictory, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth

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parallelism

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framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity

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parody

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work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and ridicule

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personification

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author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human characteristics

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point of view

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persprective from which story is told

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prose

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one major divisions of genre- fiction or nonfiction, written in ordinary language and most closely resemble everyday speech- not poetry or drama

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repetition

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duplication, either exact or approcimate of any element of language

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sarcasm

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bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something

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satire

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work that targets human vices and follies or social insititution or conventions for reform or ridicule

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style

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sum of choices an author make in blending diction, syntax, fig language, and other

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syllogism

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deductive system of formal logic that presents two premise: major and minor

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symbol

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anything that represents or stands forsomething else

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syntax

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the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences

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theme

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central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life

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tone

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similar to mood, describes author's attitude toward his or her material

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transition

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word or phrase that links different ideas.

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understatement

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ironic minimalizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. humorous and emphatic

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attitude

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writer's intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject of writing

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soliloquoy

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speech in which the character speaks his thoughts alone

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rhetorical question

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question asked for effect, not asking for reply

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stereotype

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conventional pattern, expression, character or idea

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blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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end-stopped

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line with a pause at the end, lines that end with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point or question mark

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free verse

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poetry not written in traditional meter but is still rhythmical

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heroic couplet

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2 end-stopped iambic pentameter lines, rhymed with the thought usually completed in the 2 line unit

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hexameter

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line containing six feet

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iamb

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2 syllable foot, unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable, most common foot

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internal rhyme

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rhyme occurs within a line rather than the end

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pentameter

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line containing five feet

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rhyme royal

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seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc

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sonnet

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14 line iambic pentameter poem

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stanza

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usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme

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terza rima

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three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc

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tetrameter

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line of four feet