Lifepack Grade 10 Language Arts Unit 4

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Greek, Latin, and English are ____ languages

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Indo-european

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In the old roman calendar, December was the ___ month

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Tenth

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The old English root monath means

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Month

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Describe connotation

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The meaning or feeling that's evoked from a word

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The effect of propaganda depends largely on the ____ meanings of words

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Connotative

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Propaganda

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Convinces through connotations

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Association or suggestion

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Connotation

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Lowering in meaning

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Pejoration

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Mood

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Atmosphere

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Reference to anything

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Allusion

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Restricting in meaning

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Specialization

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History of a word

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Etymology

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Referent

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Symbol for thing or concept

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Etymology is derived from 2 Greek words meaning

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True meaning

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2 forms of the same word are called

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Doublets

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The Greek root chron means

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Time

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The Greek combining form hepta- means

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Seven

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The name Abraham means

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Father of a multitude

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The author of the pamphlet "common sense" was

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Thomas Paine

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February was called sprote-kalemonath by the Anglo-Saxons because it was the month when

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They harvested

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Shibboleth

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Jewish word meaning words that mean the same thing

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Cognate

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A word related to another in a different language

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What is pyrrhic foot?

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No noticeably accented syllable

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Iambic

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2 syllables, second syllable accented

i love'

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Trochaic or trochee

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2 syllables, first syllable accented

fall' ing

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Dactylic

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3 syllables, first syllable accented

mor' ti fy

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Anapestic

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3 syllables, last syllable accented

ex per tise'

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What is a spondee (spondaic foot)?

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A foot with 2 accents

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Onomatopoeia

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Imitation of natural sounds

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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Part of a whole

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Assonance

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Understatement

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Saying less than is meant

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Metonymy

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Substituting a word for a related one

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Personification

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Attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects

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Hyperbole

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Blatant exaggeration

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Irony

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Discrepancy between what is said and what is meant

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Metaphor

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Comparison without like or as

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Simile

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One thing compared to another

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Free verse has neither ____ nor ___

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Rhyme nor meter

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Symbolism

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A thing represents itself and something else

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One thing IS another

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metaphor

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Use of one word for another associated with it

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Metonymy

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One thing is LIKE anither

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Simile

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Apparent contradiction

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Paradox

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The most common foot in English poetry is the

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Iambic

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Meter in English poetry depends on a combination of ___ syllables and ___ syllables

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Accented and unaccented

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The technique of ____ is used to determine the meter and line length of a poem

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Scansion

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A pause within a line of poetry is a

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Caesura

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A dactyl was thought by the ancient Greeks to resemble a

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Finger

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The phrase carpe diem literally means

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Seize the day

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The sound of a poem should echo its

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Imagery

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Amelioration

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Improvement in the meaning or status of a word

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Ballad

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A poem that tells a story

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Cadence

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Rhythm that regularly repeats itself

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Couplet

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2 successive lines of poetry

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Didactic

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Meant to instruct

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Doggerel

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Poor poetry

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Doublet

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1 or2 or more different words in a language derived from the same original source but coming by different routes

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Epic

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Long poem relating to the adventures of a hero

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Expository prose

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Written to instruct rather than to entertain

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Literary allusion

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Reference to literary work

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Meter

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Arrangement of beats or accented in a line of poetry

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Octave

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Group of 8 lines of poetry

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Poetic diction

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Language or word of choice by a poet

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Quatrain

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4 lined poem

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Sestet

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Poem with 6 lines

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Sonnet

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Formal 14 lined poem

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Terza rima

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Italian form of iambic verse

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Triplet

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3 successive lines of poetry

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Apostraohe

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Addressing inanimate object

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Monometer

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One foot line

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Dimeter

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2 feet line

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Trimeter

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3 feet line

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Tetrameter

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4 feet line

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Pentameter

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5 feet line

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Hexameter

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6 feet line

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Heptameter

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7 feet line

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Octameter

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8 feet line