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2nd Semester Exam Review
literary terms
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English
9th Grade
05/26/2008

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allusion
Definition
a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
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anaphora
Definition
emphasizing words by repeating them at the beginning of neighboring clauses
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pun
Definition
humorous play on two or more meanings of the same word or on two different words with the same sound
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anachronism
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an event or a detail that is inappropirate for the time period
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theme
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a central message or insight into life revealed through literary work
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irony

Definition
contrast or discrepance between apperance and reality, or between what is expected and what actually happens
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verbal irony
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a person that says one thing but means the other
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dramatic irony
Definition
audience has important info that characters in a literary work dont have
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imagery
Definition
"word pictures" that writers create to help evoke an emotional response
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parallelism
Definition
use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar gramatical form
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antithesis
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involves a direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast
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synecdoche
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a term denotating a part of something to refer to
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prose
Definition
literature that is written in sentence or paragraph form
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tone
Definition
in an speech is the feeling and emotions that accompany the words
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tradegy
Definition
drama in which the central character or characters suffer disaster or great misfortune
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monologue
Definition
lenghty, uninterpreted speech addressed to other characters rather than to the audience
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soliloquy
Definition
speech which a lone character speaks to the audience and expresses his feelings or thoughts
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aside
Definition
brief remark to the audience, uttered while other characters are nearby but are unable to hear
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iambic pentameter
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meter that is made up of 5 iambic feet to a line of verse
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meter
Definition
regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables that give a line of poetry a rythm
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foot
Definition
the unit of meter within a line
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blank verse
Definition
an unrymed iambic pentameter
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diction
Definition
a writers word choice
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connotation
Definition
set of associations that occur to people when they hear a word
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denotation
Definition
the dictionary meaning of a word
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antimetabole
Definition
figure of speech in which 2 clauses are related to each other through a reversal od structures in order to make a larger point
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pathos
Definition
feeling of pity, suffering, compassion
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logos
Definition
rational thinking
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ethos
Definition
ethical, moral, spiritual
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