Enriched English 1-2 Final Exam Prep: Spring 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Pernicioius | deadly or fatal |
| Mutiny | violence, overthrow |
| grievance | injustice, complaint |
| transgression | wrong doing or sin |
| disparage | insult |
| fair | beautiful woman |
| cunning | cleverness, slyness |
| vile | worthless |
| predominant | having dominant influence over others |
| lamentable | distressing; sad |
| fallant | brave and noble |
| fray | noisy fight |
| martial | military |
| eloquence | speech that is vivid, forceful, graceful, and persuasive |
| fickle | changeable |
| pensive | thinking deeply or seriously |
| wayward | headstrong; willful |
| dismal | causing gloom or misery |
| loathsome | discusting |
| prostrate | lie face down in humble submission |
| remnants | remaining persons or things |
| ambiguities | statements or events whose meanings are unclear |
| amorous | full of love |
| woe | great sadness, tragedy |
| What is ordinary writing that is not poetry? It is incomplete sentences and paragraphs... | prose |
| Verse that is written in stanzas. Usually has rhythm, often it rhymes. | Poetry |
| Playwright | the author of a play |
| actors | the person who perform |
| acts | the units of action like "parts" of a book |
| scenes | the individual parts of the acts; they change with the setting (time and place) like "chapters" of a book |
| stage directions | the part of the script of a play that tells actors how they are supposed to move and how they should speak their lines |
| Monologue | a long speech by one single character (spoken while other people are on stage) |
| soliloquy | a long speech made by one single character, revealing his/her private thoughts and emotions (spoken when on stage alone) |
| aside | a quick comment made by a character that is directed at the audience but is not heard by the other characters onstage |
| tragic hero & tragic flaw | a literary character who makes an error of judgement or has a fatal flaw that combined with fate and external forces brings on a tragedy; the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy |
| tragedy | drama where the main character(s) suffer disaster or great misfortune (often death) |
| motive | the intention behind an action |
| simile | comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | a direct comparison of two unlike things |
| personification | giving human-like qualities to inanimate (lifeless) objects or nonhuman things |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words |
| verbal irony | the speaker means something totally different from what he is saying |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows information the characters in the play, movie, or story do not know |
| situations irony | an outcome that turns out to be very different than expected |
| mood | the emotion the reader feels while reading |
| tone | the authors attitude or feeling toward the subject which influences a certain mood |
| oxymoron | two consecutive words that have contradictory meaning |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| symbols | a particular object that represents an idea larger than itself |
| allusion | a brief usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional |
| pun | a funny play on words |
| comic relief | a technique a playwright uses to lighten the mood |
| imagery | descriptive words that appeal to the 5 senses |
| theme | central idea explored by a literary work (a play/story may have more than one theme) |
| iambic pentameter | a meter in poetry; it refers to a line consisting of 5 iambic feet unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| couplet | two lines that rhyme |
| quatrain | 4 lines of poetry |
| When was Shakespeare born? | April 23, 1564 |
| Where was Shakespeare born? | Stratford-Upon-Avon |
| What was a typical school day? | 6AM-5PM |
| How many plays did Shakespeare write? | 37 |
| What types of plays did Shakespeare write?(3) | Tragedies Histories Comedies |
| What is censorship? | restricting access to images or ideas because they offence or disturb someone or because someone disagrees with it. |
| What is the difference between a challenged book and a banned book? | A challenged book has simply had a complaint made against it either in spoken or written words; while, a banned book had been officially removed form a library's collection or from use in a school by the administrators of either institution. |
| One threat to free speech since 9/11 is the ______ Act. This, in part, require that libraries hand over records o what people have checked out upon the governments' request or risk being arrested if they don't cooperate. | Patriot |
| Imaging, inferring, and questioning help you to ____ and ____ what you read. | understand, remember |
| another word for engaged is an ____ reader. | active |
| imaging is like.... | watching a movie in your mind |
| inferring is NOT | restating something that the text already says |
| When asking questions, you should be thinking about your _____. | purpose |
| What literary device helps you practice the reading strategy of imaging? | imagery |
| brevity | shortness |
| furtive | sneaky |
| nondescript | dull; with no special or interesting qualities |
| facade | the front part of a building that faces the street |
| waning | becoming less bright, intense, or strong |
| iota | very small amount |
| congenital | describes something in existence at birth, such as a week heart |
| elucidate | to explain |
| feral | wild or savage |
| infallible | unfailing, certain |
| auspicious | favorable, advantageous |
| contemptuous | to have the feeling that one is better than something or someone; that others are beneath them or worthless. |
| asinine | stupid or silly |
| entailment | a legal situation where only certain people can inherit a property |
| pensive | deeply or seriously thoughtful |
| fanatical | going beyond what is reasonable, characterized by extreme enthusiasm or zeal |
| assuage | to lessen or to calm |
| recluse | somebody who stays away form society and the company of others |
| procure | got/get |
| volition | free will |
| acquit | to find not guilty, innocent |
| denounce | to strongly disapprove or condemn of something |
| vexation | something that causes annoyance or problems |
| taciturn | almost always silent |
| benevolence | kindness, generosity |
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