you must know the definitions on day 1 of pre-AP English II
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| 787995 | Inference | opinion with evidence to support | 0 | |
| 787996 | Archetype | an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made | 1 | |
| 787997 | Dynamic character | (changing character) | 2 | |
| 787998 | Static character | character stays the same | 3 | |
| 787999 | Epiphany (8) | sudden realization; the light bulb moment | 4 | |
| 788000 | Flat/round character | (no depth/depth and complexity) | 5 | |
| 788001 | Foil (9) | character's opposite | 6 | |
| 788002 | Motivation | what drives a character on | 7 | |
| 788003 | Detail | details included for a purpose | 8 | |
| 788004 | Diction | Word choice | 9 | |
| 788005 | Connotation | feeling word gives you | 10 | |
| 788006 | Denotation | dictionary definition | 11 | |
| 788007 | Dialect | vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | 12 | |
| 788008 | Colloquial (10) | informal spoken language or conversation | 13 | |
| 788009 | Slang (10) | non-standard use of words | 14 | |
| 788010 | Vernacular (10) | characteristic language of a particular group | 15 | |
| 788011 | Euphemism (8) | A mild word of phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it is too direct, unpleasant, or offensive | 16 | |
| 788012 | Idiom | a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | 17 | |
| 788013 | Invective (12) | abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | 18 | |
| 788014 | Imagery | words that appeal to the 5 senses | 19 | |
| 788015 | Mood | the feeling invoked in the reader | 20 | |
| 788016 | Foreshadowing | hints to what is to come | 21 | |
| 788017 | Rhetorical Shift | shift in attitude | 22 | |
| 788018 | Theme | what an author believes to be true on a subject presented in the work. | 23 | |
| 788019 | Tone | speaker's attitude towards his subject | 24 | |
| 788020 | Apostrophe (8) | addressing something as if they were present | 25 | |
| 788021 | Metaphor | figurative language comparing two unlike things | 26 | |
| 788022 | Metonymy (10) | type of metaphor in which a word or phrase is substituted for something closely associated with it. | 27 | |
| 788023 | Oxymoron (7) | a paradox in two side by side words. | 28 | |
| 788024 | Paradox (8) | a contradictory statement that turns out to be true | 29 | |
| 788025 | Personification | applying human attributes to something not human | 30 | |
| 788026 | Pun (9) | play on words | 31 | |
| 788027 | Simile | figurative language comparing two unlike things using like or as | 32 | |
| 788028 | Symbol | something representing something else | 33 | |
| 788029 | Synaesthesia (10) | describing one sense in terms of another. | 34 | |
| 788030 | Synecdoche (10) | figurative language using the part to represent the whole. | 35 | |
| 788031 | Alliteration | repetition of the initial consonant sound | 36 | |
| 788032 | Assonance (7) | repetition of vowel sounds | 37 | |
| 788033 | Consonance (7) | repetition of consonant sounds within words | 38 | |
| 788034 | Onomatopoeia | the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents | 39 | |
| 788035 | Allusion | reference to another lit. work or historic event | 40 | |
| 788036 | Anachronism (10) | out of place in time | 41 | |
| 788037 | Anecdote (10) | short account of an incident | 42 | |
| 788038 | Direct characterization (8) | something about the character is stated directly | 43 | |
| 788039 | Indirect characterization (8) | personality traits about the character are implied through dialogue or actions. | 44 | |
| 788040 | Dialogue | when 2 people are speaking to each other | 45 | |
| 788041 | Hyperbole (7) | exaggeration | 46 | |
| 788042 | Dramatic irony (9) | when the reader knows things the characters don't | 47 | |
| 788043 | Situational irony (7) | when the opposite happens from what you expect | 48 | |
| 788044 | Verbal irony | saying one thing and meaning another | 49 | |
| 788045 | Motif (10) | recurring idea | 50 | |
| 788046 | Satire (10) | a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change | 51 | |
| 788047 | Litotes (10) | A figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite. Some examples include: no small victory, not a bad idea, not unhappy. It is the opposite of hyperbole. | 52 | |
| 788048 | Aphorism (10) | a short, witty saying, expressing a truth about life | 53 | |
| 788049 | Diary | journal or log | 54 | |
| 788050 | Exposition | Writing intended to explain the nature of an idea, thing, or theme. Expository writing is often combined with description, narration, or argument | 55 | |
| 788051 | Catharsis | purging of emotions | 56 | |
| 788052 | Hamartia | In tragedy, the event or act that leads to the hero's or heroine's downfall | 57 | |
| 788053 | Hubris | Excessive pride | 58 | |
| 788054 | Comedy | it's funny; duh | 59 | |
| 788055 | Comic relief | comic scene amid a tragedy to ease tensions | 60 | |
| 788056 | Dues ex machine | god from a machine | 61 | |
| 788057 | In medias res | beginning in the middle of the action (in the middle of things) | 62 | |
| 788058 | Monologue | an excessive speech by one speaker | 63 | |
| 788059 | Soliloquy | character speaking his thoughts while on stage alone | 64 | |
| 788060 | Tragedy | something horrible happens at the end; duh | 65 | |
| 788061 | Tragic Flaw | the flaw that leads to the hero's downfall | 66 | |
| 788062 | Essay | a short work that treats of a topic from an author's personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them | 67 | |
| 788063 | Fable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) | 68 | |
| 788064 | Genre | A category of literary work | 69 | |
| 788065 | Prologue | An introductory section of a literary work | 70 | |
| 788066 | Epilogue | A concluding statement or section of a literary work | 71 | |
| 788067 | Subplot | minor plot | 72 | |
| 788068 | Novella | A prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel | 73 | |
| 788069 | Parable | A brief story, told or written in order to teach a moral lesson | 74 | |
| 788070 | Prose | not poetry | 75 | |
| 788071 | Verse | poetry | 76 | |
| 788072 | Epitaph | an inscription on a gravestone or a commemorative poem written as if it were for that purpose. | 77 | |
| 788073 | Absolute phrase (10) | are made of nouns or pronouns followed by a participle and any modifiers of the noun or pronoun (ie: his hair blowing). They phrases contain a subject (unlike participial phrases), and no predicate. They serve to modify an entire sentence. | 78 | |
| 788074 | Appositive phrase (7) | rename noun phrases and are usually placed beside what they rename . | 79 | |
| 788075 | Gerund phrase (8) | verbal in which a verb is used as a noun and any of its modifiers. It can be used as a subject, direct object, object of the preposition,, etc. | 80 | |
| 788076 | Infinitive phrase | will begin with an infinitive [to + simple form of the verb] and include objects and/or modifiers | 81 | |
| 788077 | Participial phrase (8) | includes the participle (verb used as an adjective) and the object | 82 | |
| 788078 | Prepositional | includes a preposition and the object of the preposition. It shows relationship, direction, or location. | 83 | |
| 788079 | Independent clause | clause contains a subject and a verb, AND it can stand alone | 84 | |
| 788080 | Dependent/Subordinate clause | clause contains a subject and a verb, but it is characterized as beginning with a dependent marker word (ie: although, despite, while, because, etc.) and therefore cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence. | 85 | |
| 788081 | Declarative sentence | the kind of sentence that makes a statement or "declares" something | 86 | |
| 788082 | Exclamatory sentence | a more forceful version of a declarative sentence, marked at the end with an exclamation mark | 87 | |
| 788083 | Imperative sentence | gives a direct command to someone | 88 | |
| 788084 | Interrogative sentence | asks a direct question | 89 | |
| 788085 | Antithetical sentence | (10): just another way of saying parallel but opposing. | 90 | |
| 788086 | Balanced sentence (10) | parallel structure on either side of the conjunction, semi-colon, etc. | 91 | |
| 788087 | Complex sentence | A sentence with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 92 | |
| 788088 | Compound sentence | A sentence consisting of two or more coordinate independent clauses | 93 | |
| 788089 | Compound-complex sentene | A sentence consisting of at least two coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 94 | |
| 788090 | Loose/cumulative sentence (7) | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | 95 | |
| 788091 | Periodic sentence (7) | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause | 96 | |
| 788092 | Simple | having no coordinate or subordinate clauses | 97 | |
| 788093 | Antithesis (9) | placement of direct opposites | 98 | |
| 788094 | Asyndeton (8) | absence of any conjunctions | 99 | |
| 788095 | Ellipsis (9) | leaving words out | 100 | |
| 788096 | Polysyndeton (8) | using unnecessary conjunctions | 101 | |
| 788097 | Repetition | repeating for effect | 102 | |
| 788098 | Anadiplosis (10) | repeating the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next | 103 | |
| 788099 | Anaphora (9) | repeating words at the beginning of a sentence | 104 | |
| 788100 | Epanalepsis (10) | word or phrase is repeated after intervening matter | 105 | |
| 788101 | Epistrophe (9) | the counterpart of anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences | 106 | |
| 788102 | Antimetabole (10) | Reversal of the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) | 107 | |
| 788103 | Inversion (7) | changing the normal order of syntax | 108 | |
| 788104 | Chiasmus (10) | A crossing parallelism, where the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order. | 109 | |
| 788105 | Rhetorical Fragment (10) | fragment for a specific purpose | 110 | |
| 788106 | Rhetorical Question (10) | question with no answer intended | 111 |
