English 2 Midterm Review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Literary Archetype | general version of personality or something. (ex. yellow, red, hero) |
| Stock Character | charater based on common social stereotype |
| Foil | a character that acts as a contrast to another character. Foils are usually minor characters but can sometimes be major characters. |
| Protagonist | Main character, displays a complex set of both good and bad traits. They face moral crisis, physical or emotional challenge. Readers usually sympathize with the protangonist. |
| Antagonist | someone opposed to the protagonist and who impedes his progress. |
| Stereotype | a specific common belief about a certain kind of people |
| Soliloquy | a solo, a charater speaking to themselves about their thoughts or feelings |
| Sermon | a serious talk or speech |
| Exposition | the introduction to a play or act, anything explaining following information |
| Diatribe | an angry speech or piece of writing which severely criticizes something or someone |
| Polytheistic | believing in more than one God |
| Allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion. |
| Metaphor | a comparison between one thing and another saying that something is another thing. |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. Don't take it literally, them be frontin', hoe. |
| Apostrophe | addressing someone or somthing who is not actually there as if they were there. |
| Simile | a type of imagery that makes a comparison between one thing and another, to strengthen the word picture in the reader's mind using like or as |
| Understatement | saying the opposite of what one means. AKA Litotes. |
| Personification | the technique of giving human attributes to something that is not human |
| Synedoche | the technique of mentioning a part of something to represent the whole thing |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds at the end or in th middle of words |
| Alliteration | use of repeated consonant sounds to create a sound picture. May be at the start of each word or within the words. Adds rhythm to the poem. (According to Fabes, it can NEVER be accidental. So when I typed "word or within the words" it was purposeful alliteration...yeahno) |
| Onomatopoeia | the term for those words that sound like the noise they are describing. Like "woof" or "moooo" & "meow" |
| Assonance | the use of repeated vowel sounds to create a sound picture. The sound may be repeated at the start or the end of each word or within the words themselves. Alliteration is the sound, assonance is the letter. |
| Metonymy | the substitution of word naming an object for another word closely associated with it |
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