English III Final ALL TERMS
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This is every single vocabulary word and literary term that we were told to study. If Ms. Dinnen gave you a solid definition for Modernism, let me know so I can use that instead of wikipedia.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables |
| Allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| Analogy | an extended comparison of relationships; based on the idea that the relationship between one pair of things is like the relationship between another pair |
| Anecdote | a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event; told to entertain or to make a point |
| Aphorism | a general truth or observation about life, usually stated concisely |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Character | a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work |
| Dynamic Character | a character who changes in the course of a work |
| Flat Character | a one-dimensional character |
| Main Character | the character on whom the work focuses |
| Major Characters | include the main character and any other characters who play significant roles |
| Minor Character | a character who does not play a significant role |
| Round Character | a character who is complex and multifaceted, like a real person |
| Static Character | a character who does not change in the course of a work |
| Characterization | the act of creating and developing a character |
| Direct Characterization | the writer simply states a character's traits |
| Indirect Characterization | the character is revealed through his/her actions, descriptions of the character's appearance or background, what other characters say about the character, the ways in which other characters react to the character |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces; Internal: emotional struggle within a character; External: physical struggle between a character and an outside force |
| Connotation | an association that the word calls to mind in addition to the dictionary meaning of the word; not always similar to the denotation of a word |
| Dialect | the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group; used to make characters seem realistic and to create local color |
| Diction | a writer's or speaker's word choice; can be formal/informal, abstract/concrete, plain/ornate, or common/technical |
| Dramatic Monologue | a poem or speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a silent listener |
| Epigram | a brief, pointed statement, in prose or in verse |
| Figurative Language | writing or speech not meant to be taken literally; used to express ideas in vivid and imaginative ways |
| Flashback | a section of literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events to relate an event from an earlier time |
| Foreshadowing | the use of clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| Free Verse | poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter |
| Grotesque | the use of bizarre, absurd, or fantastic elements in literature; generally characterized by distortions or striking incongruities |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, often used for comic effect |
| Image | a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses |
| Imagery | the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader |
| Imagism | a literary movement that flourished between 1912 and 1927; rejected nineteenth-century poetic forms and language; poems used ordinary language and free verse |
| Irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens |
| Dramatic Irony | a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows |
| Situational Irony | an event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the characters, of the reader, or of the audience |
| Verbal Irony | a word or phrase is used to suggest the opposite of its usual meaning |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
| Dead Metaphor | a metaphor that has been overused and has become a common expression |
| Mixed Metaphor | occurs when two metaphors are jumbled together |
| Modernism | a literary movement that encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world |
| Mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Motivation | a reason that explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or speech; can be character's values, wants, desires, dreams, wishes, and needs |
| Narrator | a speaker or character who tells a story; can be a main character, a minor character, or someone uninvolved in the story; can speak in first-person or third-person |
| Limited Narrator | the narrator only knows what one character does |
| Omniscient Narrator | the narrator knows everything |
| Naturalism | a literary movement among novelists at the end of the nineteenth century and during the early decades of the twentieth century; tented to view people as hapless victims of immutable natural laws |
| Novel | a long work of fiction that consists of a complicated plot, many major and minor characters, a significant theme, and several varied settings |
| Ode | a long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme that may have a traditional stanza structure; often honor people, commemorate events, respond to natural scenes, or consider serious human problems |
| Paradox | a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth |
| Parody | a humorous imitation of a literary work, one that exaggerates or distorts the characteristic features of the original |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| Point of View | the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told |
| First Person Point of View | the narrator is a character in the story and refers to himself or herself with the first-person pronoun "I" |
| Limited Third Person Point of View | the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character, and everything is viewed from this character's perspective |
| Omniscient Third Person Point of View | the narrator knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks |
| Prose | the ordinary form of written language; occurs in two forms, fiction and nonfiction and consists of most writing that is not poetry, drama, or song |
| Realism | the presentation in art of the details of actual life; also a literary movement that began during the nineteenth century and stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful; reacted against Romanticism |
| Regionalism | the tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas; authors present the distinct culture of an area, including its speech, customs, beliefs, and history |
| Romanticism | a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century that arose in reaction against eighteenth-century Neoclassicism and placed a premium on imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica |
| Satire | writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, institutions, social conventions, or other works of art or literature |
| Short Story | a brief work of fiction that has a simple plot and setting; tends to reveal character at a crucial moment rather than developing it through many incidents |
| Spiritual | a type of African American folk song dating from the period of slavery and Reconstruction; deals both with religions freedom and, on an allegorical level, with political and economic freedom; made used of repetition, parallelism, and rhyme |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit; function like paragraphs in prose, each one states and develops a single main idea |
| Stream of Consciousness | a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character's mind |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| Conventional Symbol | a symbol that is widely known and accepted |
| Personal Symbol | a symbol developed for a particular work by a particular author |
| Theme | a central message or insight into life revealed by literature work; usually implied in a story, poem, or play |
| Tone | the writer's attitude toward his or her subject, characters, or audience |
| Precipitate | (v.) cause to happen before expected or desired |
| Aggregation | (n.) group of distinct objects or individuals |
| Inscrutable | (adj) impossible to see |
| Disdainfully | (adv.): showing scorn or contempt |
| Glade | (n.): open space in a wood |
| Transient | (adj.): not permanent |
| Prodigious | (adj.): of great power or size |
| Eminence | (n.): greatness; celebrity |
| Garrulous | (adj.): talking too much |
| Conjectured | (v.): guessed |
| Monotonous | (adj.): tiresome because unvarying |
| Interminable | (adj.): seeming to last forever |
| Ornery | (adj.): having a mean disposition |
| Expatriated | (adj.); deported; driven from one's native land |
| Anathema | (n.): curse |
| Bellicose | (adj.): quarrelsome |
| Recumbent | (adj.): resting |
| Equanimity | (n.): composure |
| Vociferation | (n.): loud or vehement shouting |
| Vituperative | (adj.): spoken abusively |
| Querulous | (adj.): inclined to find fault |
| Conjectural | (adj.): based on guess work |
| Unwonted | (adj.): unusual; unfamiliar |
| Conflagration | (n.): big, destructive fire |
| Peremptorily | (adj.): decisively; commandingly |
| Insidious | (adj.) secretly treacherous |
| Digress | (v.): depart temporarily from the main subject |
| Malingers | (v.): pretends to be ill |
| Meticulous | (adj.): extremely careful about details |
| Obtuse | (adj.): slow to understand or perceive |
| Voluminous | (adj.): of enough material to fill volumes |
| Dogma | (n.): authoritative doctrines or beliefs |
| Apparition | (n.): act of appearing or becoming visible |
| Statistics | (n.): science of collecting and arranging facts about a particular subject in the form of numbers |
| Psychology | (n.): science dealing with the mind and with mental and emotional processes |
| Poise | (n.): balance, stability |
| Rueful | (adj.): feeling or showing someone sorrow or pity |
| Luminary | (adj.): giving light |
| consecrate | (v.): cause to be revered or honored |
| Hallow | (v.): honor as sacred |
| Deprecated | (v.): expressed disapproval of |
| Insurgents | (n.): rebels; those who revolt against authority |
| Discern | (v.): receive or recognize; make out clearly |
| Scourge | (n.): cause of serious trouble or affliction |
| Malice | (n.): ill will; spite |
| Anarchy | (n.): absence of government |
| Redress | (n.): atonement; rectification |
| Forestall | (v.): prevented by acting ahead of time |
| Repression | (n.): restraint |
| Elusive | (adj.): hard to grasp |
| Tumultuously | (adv.): in an agitated way |
| Importunities | (n.) persistent requests or demands |
| Suffice | (v.): be adequate; meet the needs of |
| Insatiable | (adj.): constantly wanting more |
| Slovenly | (adj.): untidy |
| Dominion | (n.): power to rule |
| Palpable | (adj.): able to be touched, felt, or handle |
| Derivative | (adj.): not original; based on something else |
| Literalists | (n.): those who take words at their exact meaning |
| Piety | (n.): devoion to religous duties |
| Frippery | (n.): showy display of elegance |
| Dyspepsia | (n.): indigestion |
| Desolate | (adj.): forlorn; wretched |
| Listed | (v.): tilted; inclined |
| Ominous | (adj.): threatening |
| Ravenous | (adj.): extremely eager |
| Morose | (adj.): gloomy; sullen |
| Guffawing | (adj.): laughing in a loud, course manner |
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