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11th Grade
04/05/2010

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Active Voice
Definition
The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the voice is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb
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Allegory
Definition
Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance or emblem
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Alliteration
Definition
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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Allusion
Definition
Passing reference or indirect mention
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Analogy
Definition
An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
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Antagonist
Definition
Someone who offers opposition
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Anti-Climax
Definition
A disappointing decline after a previous rise
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Antithesis
Definition
Exact opposite, opposition, contrast
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Apostrophe
Definition
Address to an absent or imaginary person
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Anecdotal
Definition
Pertaining to, or abounding with
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Archaic
Definition
So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
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Aside
Definition
A message that deports from the main subject
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Assonance
Definition
Resemblance of sound
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Atmosphere
Definition
A particular environment or surrounding influence
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Audience
Definition
A gathering of spectators or listeners
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Autobiography
Definition
A biography of yourself
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Ballad
Definition
A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing
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Bias
Definition
Influence in an unfair way
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Biography
Definition
An account of the series of events making up a persons life
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Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed verse
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