Study sets matching "english ii hn"
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Classes
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Alliteration
Aneedote
Didactic
Genre
Repetitiom of intial CONSTANT sounds in neighboring words/clos…
Short narrative account of an amusing, unusual, revealing, or…
Instructive (can be tone word)
A parricular literary form, e.g., tragedy, epic, comedy, novel…
Alliteration
Repetitiom of intial CONSTANT sounds in neighboring words/clos…
Aneedote
Short narrative account of an amusing, unusual, revealing, or…
Stricken
Irrevocableness
Atrocity
Impertinence
Afflicted or overwhelmed by misfortune, disease or sorrow. (Ad…
Impossible to retract or revoke. (Noun)
An act of particular cruelty or wickedness, usually physically…
Inappropriate, a rude, unmannerly intrusion or action. (Noun)
Stricken
Afflicted or overwhelmed by misfortune, disease or sorrow. (Ad…
Irrevocableness
Impossible to retract or revoke. (Noun)
adjourn
alien
comely
compensate
To stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place
A citizen of another country ... Foreign, strange
Having a pleasing appearance
To make up for; to repay for services
adjourn
To stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place
alien
A citizen of another country ... Foreign, strange
epigraph
presumptuous
reproach
absolution
a short quotation that appears in front of a poem, a book, or…
excessively forward; "having a lot of nerve"
expression of disapproval
the act of having one's sins cleansed away
epigraph
a short quotation that appears in front of a poem, a book, or…
presumptuous
excessively forward; "having a lot of nerve"
Fiction
2 different kinds of fiction
Exposition
Rising action
A narrative prose about chanracters and events from the aithor…
Novels and novellas
Start of the story
Series of conflicts that lead to climax
Fiction
A narrative prose about chanracters and events from the aithor…
2 different kinds of fiction
Novels and novellas
Invincible
Evince
Conducive
Provincial
Adj: unable to be conquered
V: to establish; to reflect the truth of
Adj: supportive; encouraging; helping to bring about
Knowing little about the world; narrow minded
Invincible
Adj: unable to be conquered
Evince
V: to establish; to reflect the truth of
Ameliorate
Aplomb
Bombastic
Callow
To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming
Poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularity
Pompous or overblown in language, full of high-sounding words…
Without experience, immature, not fully developed, lacking sop…
Ameliorate
To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming
Aplomb
Poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularity
Exhilarate(v.)
Hiatus(n.)
Copious(adj.)
Brawn(n.)
Make someone very happy
A pause or break in a sequence, series, or process
Abundant in supply or quantity
Physical strength in contrast to intelligence
Exhilarate(v.)
Make someone very happy
Hiatus(n.)
A pause or break in a sequence, series, or process
Irony
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Alliteration
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normall…
be a warning or indication of (a future event).
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literal…
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of…
Irony
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normall…
Foreshadowing
be a warning or indication of (a future event).
Epic Hero
Epic
Hubris
Hamartia
Protagonist is an epic Hero that embodies every admirable trai…
A long narrative poem that traces the quests, battles, and liv…
excessive pride
Fatal Flaw
Epic Hero
Protagonist is an epic Hero that embodies every admirable trai…
Epic
A long narrative poem that traces the quests, battles, and liv…
bunker
gemeinda
governess
kombinator
a place where jews hid from Nazis to avoid capture and death
the jewish community group in the ghettos
a nanny who watched over children
a person of questionable ethics, a crook
bunker
a place where jews hid from Nazis to avoid capture and death
gemeinda
the jewish community group in the ghettos
androgynous
demise
foreshadow
patriarchal
having both female and male characteristics... ex: clothing
an end to, a decease to
at the beginning and says something will happen before it does
when men are in charge; a society ruled by men... ex: government
androgynous
having both female and male characteristics... ex: clothing
demise
an end to, a decease to
anecdote
dearth
eccentric
economical
small entertaining story, short account of something, small, s…
scarcity, shortage of something, lack of something
out of the ordinary, strange
thrifting, avoiding waste, not wasteful, frugal, cheap
anecdote
small entertaining story, short account of something, small, s…
dearth
scarcity, shortage of something, lack of something
Acquisitive
Arrogate
Banal
Belabor
Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things
Take or claim without justification
Lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring
Argue or elaborate on excessive detail
Acquisitive
Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things
Arrogate
Take or claim without justification
affronted
allusion
concur
dispel
adj offended by an act or words; insulted by an act or word
n indirect preference; applied reference to something familiar…
v to agree, to cooperate, to work together, to coincide
v to do away with, to get rid of, to remove
affronted
adj offended by an act or words; insulted by an act or word
allusion
n indirect preference; applied reference to something familiar…
Explicit Information
Paradox
Overstatement
Understatement
Clear and obvious information, terms of expression, ideas, and…
When 2 opposing ideas exist or occur at the same time.
A statement or structure exaggerated for effect.
A statement or structure which presents a simplified message f…
Explicit Information
Clear and obvious information, terms of expression, ideas, and…
Paradox
When 2 opposing ideas exist or occur at the same time.
Adapt
Addicted
Adequate
Adherent
to adjust to a specified use or situation
devoted or given to habitually or compulsively
able to satisfy a requirement; suitable
A supporter, as of a cause or individual
Adapt
to adjust to a specified use or situation
Addicted
devoted or given to habitually or compulsively