English Final Vocab Flashcards

67151869	Noun	a thing, a person, a place, an idea. (Bug, bob, Boston, Brotherhood.).	0
67151870	Verb	an action OR a form of to be (am is are was were be being been.).	1
67151871	Pronoun	a word used in place of a noun. (I, you, we, us, she, him, her, in, they, them.).	2
67151872	Adjective	a word that describes a noun. (that wagon, this wagon, red wagon.).	3
67151873	Adverb	tells where, when, how. (I ran there. I ran guickly) OR a verb that tells to what degree. (Very pretty. extremely bright. too far. so far.) -ly words... happily.	4
67151874	Conjunction	joingin words. FANBOYS are most common. (therefore, however, since.).	5
67151875	Interjection	Oh! No. Yes. Well. also expletives.	6
67151876	Preposition	words that begin a preposisitonal phrase and show the relationship between two things. (to the store, for dinner, around the corner, above the clouds.).	7
67151877	Subject	does the action in a sentence, what the sentence is about.	8
67151878	Verb	the action of the sentence or a linking verb that shows a form of to be.	9
67151879	Prepositional Phrase	a preposition, maybe an adjective or two, and a noun.	10
67151880	Independent Clauses	has a subkect and verb. Expresses a complete though. can stand alone as a sentence.	11
67151881	Dependent Clause	has a subject and a verb, but doesn't express a complete thought.	12
67151882	Simple Sentence	one independent clause.	13
67151883	Compound	two independent clauses joined by a FANBOYS word OR a semicolon.	14
67151884	Complex	one dependent clause, one independent clause.	15
67151885	Compound-Complex	a compound sentence with a dependent clause.	16
67151886	Affect	an action meaning to influence.	17
67151887	Effect	end result.	18
67151888	There	a place.	19
67151889	They're	they are.	20
67151890	Their	shows something belongs to them.	21
67151891	Who	use when you would use he.	22
67151892	Whom	use with you would use him.	23
67151893	Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement	use single subject with single pronoun.	24
67151894	Allegory	literarty work in which characters, events, objects, and ideas have secondary or symbolic meanings.	25
67151895	Alliteration	repetition of the beginning consonant sound. Ex. rough and readt, Peter Piper.	26
67151896	Allusion	reference to something outside of the work, usually mythical, Biblical, or historical.	27
67151897	Anaphora	repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences.	28
67151898	Antagonist	the person or thing that opposes the protagonidt. Sometimes called the villian.	29
67151899	Archetype	a recurring and familiar pattern in literature, like a journey or a wise old man.	30
67151900	Aside	when a character in a play speaks to the audience and not to the other characters.	31
67151901	Assonance	repetition of an internal vowel sound, as in "How now brown cow.".	32
67151902	Asyndeton	absense of conjunctions in a series of items.	33
67151903	Autobiography	a story about a person written by that person.	34
67151904	Ballad	poem which tells a story of a person from the past and is often set to music.	35
67151905	Biography	an author's account or story of another person's life.	36
67151906	Characterization	the way an author reveals his characters. Can be done directly of indirectly.	37
67151907	Climax	high point of the story, point of most intense interest, and a point of no return.	38
67151908	Conflict	the problem or complication in a story, usually between a person and something else... either another person, a force of nature, fate, or the person himself.	39
67151909	Connotation	all the emmotions or feelings a word arouses, such as negative feelongd about 'pig'.	40
67151910	Ellipsis	the ommission of words (not always signaled by ...).	41
67151911	End Rhyme	rhyminig words that appear at the end of two or more lines of poetry.	42
67151912	Exposition	the part of the story or play that explains the background or makes conflict clear.	43
67151913	Falling Action	the action that takes place in a story after the climax and that resolves the conflict.	44
67151914	First Person Point of View	told from the perspective on one character in the story. Designated by the pronoun "I".	45
67151915	Flashback	when a story's sequence is interrupted and a character foes back to an earlier time.	46
67151916	Foreshadowing	the use of clues that suggest events yet to come.	47
67151917	Free Verse	poetry that is not written with a regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme.	48
67151918	Genre	a frech word meaning form or type. literary genres are novel, essay, poetry, play.	49
67151919	Hero	a character whose actions are inspiring or noble, and who overcomes difficulties.	50
67151920	Hyperbole	exaggeration or stretching the truth for literary effect. "My shoes are killing me.".	51
67151921	Iambic Pentameter	a meterical pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables common in poetry and in Shakespearean plays. The line contains ten syllables in the pattern. ~/~/~/~/~/.	52
67151922	Imagery	words that describe sights, sounds, movements and recreate sensory experience.	53
67151923	Irony	when something is different that it is supposed to be or thought to be. kinds of irony include verbal, dramatic, and situational.	54
67151924	Litotes	a form of understatement using the negative. It's not a bad idea.	55
67151925	Metaphor	comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.	56
67151926	Meter	the repetition of stressed and unstreesed syllables in a line of poetry.	57
67151927	Monolouge	a speech or performance given entirely by one person or one character.	58
67151928	Omniscient Point of View	when the story is told from the perspective of someone outside of the events but who knows and reveals all the character's thoughts and feelings.	59
67151929	Onomatopoeia	the use of words that imitate sounds, as in buzz, hiss, or murmur.	60
67151930	Oxymoron	two words used together that contradict each other, as in icy fire or sweet sorrow.	61
67151931	Paradox	a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth.	62
67151932	Parallelism	repetition of [hrases that have similar grammatical patterns.	63
67151933	Personification	giving human characteristics to a non-human thing or substance.	64
67151934	Plot	the sequence of events in a literary work.	65
67151935	Point of View	the perspective from which a story is told. types are 1st person, 3rd person limited, omniscient, stream of consciousness, and dramatic.	66
67151936	Polysyndeton	use of many conjunctions in a series of items.	67
67151937	Prologue	the opening lines of a drama that give background information.	68
67151938	Prose	the ordinary form of written language, not poetry, drama, or song.	69
67151939	Protagonist	the main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward.	70
67151940	Pun	a play on words when a word has move than ones meaning.	71
67151941	Rhyme	repetition of sounds at the ends of words.	72
67151942	Setting	time and place of a literary work.	73
67151943	Simile	a comparison of two unlike things using the wowrd 'like' or 'as'. Love is like a rose.	74
67151944	Soliloquy	speech deleivered by a character when he is alone on stages.	75
67151945	Sonnet	fourteen lines of iambic pentameter- a very common form of poetry.	76
67151946	Stanza	a unit or group of lines in poetry that are seperated by spaces.	77
67151947	Style	an author's unique way of writing that involves word choice and sentence patterns.	78
67151948	Symbol	something seen that stands for something unseen, as a rose for love, flag for country.	79
67151949	Theme	centeral truth or idea in a story.	80
67151950	Third Person Point of Veiw	when the story is told from the perspective of someone outside the events of the story but who reveals only one character's thoughts.	81
67151951	Tone	the writer of speaker's attitude towards the subject of the work.	82
67151952	Tradegy	a type of story that portrays the fall of a noble person, usually due to a tragic weakness or flaw in his/ her character.	83