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Language - English
11th Grade
05/07/2009

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allusion
Definition
a brief casual reference
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analogy
Definition
comparision of two things that are alike
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Ambiguity
Definition
unclear having multiple meanings
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analytic writing
Definition
breaking it down, analysis
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Antagonist
Definition
the character who is in the conflict, opposition to the protagonist
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Antihero
Definition
Han Solo, bad a dude
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Antithesis
Definition
Juxtaposition or sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel phrases
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apology
Definition
most commonly used as a synonym to the word defense
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Aphorism
Definition
a like good short saying
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Euphamism
Definition
a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something
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assonance
Definition
repitition of identical or similar vowel sounds
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hyperbole
Definition
extreme exaggeration, often humorous
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bildungsroman
Definition
growth in character "coming of age
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In Media Res
Definition
circular story line
"coming full circle"
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Nostalgia
Definition
Describes a longing for the past
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Delayed Sentence
Definition
A sentence that withholds a main idea until the end
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Loose sentence
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A medium or long sentence with is main point short
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Persona
Definition
Literally a mask, the like cover up phopa of the person
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Ellipses
Definition
Omission of a Word
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Pleonaism
Definition
Needless repition of a word in a phrase
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Tautology
Definition
Needless repition over a longer period of time
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Doppleganger
Definition
used in KSL Weatherwatch JKKK
Ghostly counter part of a living counterpart of a living person or an alter ego
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Invective
Definition
Verbal attack
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Catharsis
Definition
Cleansing of the spirit of the sectator (audience)
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Asyndeton
Definition
A synactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series
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Anecdote
Definition
Short account of an incident
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Anaphora
Definition
Repition of the same word or phrase at the beginning
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Anadiplosis
Definition
Reptition of the word or words or clause or line at the beginning of the next
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Anachorism
Definition
Anything that is or seems to be out of it's proper time in history
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Alliteration
Definition
The reptition of initial consanant sound at the beginnings
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Epic
Definition
A long poetic composition
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Comedy
Definition
A drama of light and amusing character, typically with a happy ending
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Epizuexis
Definition
A rhetorical figure by which a word is repeated for emphasis with no other words interviening
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D`enoument
Definition
A series of events that follow a dramatic climax
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Exposition
Definition
backround info
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Epistolary
Definition
A piece of literature contained in or carried by letters
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Syllogism
Definition
A kind of logical argument "if a=b and b=c then a=c"
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Enthemyeme
Definition
A syllogism or other arguement which a major or minor premise is unexpressed
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Hamartia
Definition
A character flaw
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Litoties
Definition
Meiosis or understatement
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Apostrophe
Definition
A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue
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Anthropormorphism
Definition
personification over a LONGER period of time- no personification
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Allegory
Definition
Narritive form in which actions have meaning outside of themselves
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Comedy
Definition
A story of the rise in fortune of a sympathetic centeral character; basically, a work with a happy ending
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contradiction
Definition
a logical incompatibility
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Catharsis
Definition
a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter, or any extreme change in emotion that results in the renewal, restoration and revitalization for the living
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Irony
Definition
A trope that involves incongruity between that what is expected and what occurs
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Apostraphe
Definition
an address, either someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend. This device often leaves the speaker the opprotunity to speak aloud
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Elegy
Definition
A short poem of lamentation or regret, called forth by someone's death or by a general sense of the pathos of morality
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Abstract
Definition
pertaining to ideas, concepts, or qualities
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Abstract
Definition
pertaining to ideas, concepts, or qualities
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Convention
Definition
A characteristic of a literary genre (often unrealistic) that is understood and accepted by audiences because it has come, through usage and time, to be recognized as a familiar technique
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consanance
Definition
Home, same: worth, breath
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Melodrama
Definition
a term applied to any literary work that relies on the implausable events and sensational action for it's effect
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Chiasmus
Definition
"he was just hte man for such a place, and it was just the place for just a man"
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Synecdoche
Definition
Ten ships called "ten sails," gossip being called "wagging tongue"
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Claim
Definition
an assertion of something as fact or an argument
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genres
Definition
Various divisions of forms or types- within writing, narrative, observation, compare and contrast, cause and effect are all types of genre
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Antithesis
Definition
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here
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Literary Devices
Definition
Personification, metaphor, simile, and synechdoche
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Paradox
Definition
They have ears but hear not; deep down he's really very shallow- something that contradicts itself however, is true
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Isocolon
Definition
Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length
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syntax
Definition
the order of words in a sentence is called...
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Delayed sentence
Definition
even after she waited inline over night, got rained on, and was in the brunt of her friends' jokes, she did not give up her quest for Shakira tickets"
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Eupony
Definition
A pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words
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Oxymoron
Definition
"o Miserable abundance"
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Discourse
Definition
the literary convention or dialogue and the established body of work on a particular subject
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Deductive reasoning
Definition
The reasoning process by whicha conclusion is drawn from a set of premises and contains not more facts than premisies
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