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EDW CATHOLIC FINAL EXAMS mrs. Oncale's English 8 advanced Flashcards

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Drama

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A story that is written to be acted out in front of an audience

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Allusion

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A reference to a person, place, thing, or event that is well known from literature, history, politics, sports, etc.

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Sonnet

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Type of poem, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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Soliloquy

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A long speech in which the character is on stage alone

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Foreshadowing

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Use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

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Pun

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A play on words that is usually humorous

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Couplet

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2 line stanza

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Oxymoron

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Two contradictory elements side by side

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Idiom

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A popular expression that cannot be mere literal meaning of the individual words

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Meter

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A regular patten of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Satire

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A written work in which wit is used to expose human folly or wickedness

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Folk tale

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A story or legend originating or handed down among the common people usually done so by word of mouth

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Quatrain

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A 4 line stanza

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Archaic

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commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time

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Antagonist

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the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work

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Protagonist

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the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.

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Irony

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incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (opposite)

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Flashback

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part of a story or movie that describes or shows something that happened in the past

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Scene

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division of an act in a play during which the action takes place in a single place without a break in time

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Act

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: one of the main divisions of a play or opera

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something that the characters do not

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Rhyme

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words or phrases that end in the same sounds

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Tragedy

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Work showing a hero in serious moral struggle that ends in unhappiness

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Extended metaphor

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when an author uses a metaphor throughout a long passage or even an entire poem.

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Foil

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Mercutio and Romeo, Benvolio and Tybalt

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparison not using like or as

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Personification.

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Giving human qualities to objects to nonhumans

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Writing process

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Prewriting
Drafting 
Revising 
Editing 
Publishing
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Prewriting

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Choose a topic, identify your purpose and audience, brainstorm, make a web or outline

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Drafting

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Write a rough draft

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Revising

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Move, add, or delete words and sentences to improve your content and organization

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Editing

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Correct errors in grammar usage, spelling, and punctuation

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Publishing

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Write or type your final draft

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Topic sentence

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Introduces your topic in a general statement or question

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RDF (transitional sentence)

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A reason, detail, or fact; states a point and uses a transitional word or expression

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Example/supporting detail sentences

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Specific details that elaborate on and support the transitional sentence the precedes it

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Concluding sentence

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Leaves the reader with a final thought and wraps up the paragraph

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Tiger Ann Parker

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Protagonist of My Louisiana Sky

12 years old with red hair

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Corrina Parker

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Tiger’s mother, very beautiful, injured in accident when she was 6

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Lonnie Parker

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Tiger’s father, red hair with long neck

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Jewel Ramsey

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Tiger’s granny, corrina’s mother

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Miz Eula

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Town gossip

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Aunt Dorie Kay

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Tiger’s aunt, Corrina’s sister, lives in Baton Rouge

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Magnolia

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Aunt Dorie Kay’s colored maid

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Otis

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Colored man who works for the Thompson’s nursery

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Jesse Wade Thompson

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Tiger’s best friend

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Shorty Calhoun

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Works for Thompson’s nursery, refuses to listen to Lonnie

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Milton Lambert

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Works for Thompson’s nursery, disagrees with mrs. Thompson’s decision to listen to Lonnie but does not quit

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Hannah

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14-year-old that is beaten by her father and marries mr. Webster

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Mr. Thompson

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Jesse Wade’s father, owns a plant nursery

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Mrs. Thompson

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Jesse Wade’s mother, from south Louisiana and teaches tiger’s Sunday school

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Abby Lynn Anders

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Popular girl at tiger’s school

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Quarters

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Place of residence

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Chenille

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Thick, soft cloth

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Country bumpkin

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Someone who lives an uncivilized life in the country

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Shudder

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To shake because of fear, cold, etc.

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Zinnias

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Brightly colored flower in the sunflower family

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Class

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Social status or standing

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Transplant

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To remove a plant from the ground or from a pot to move it to another pot

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Burlap

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Strong, rough fabric usually used for making bags

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Eerie

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Strange and mysterious

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Hankering

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To have a strong or constant desire for something

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Armoire

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Tall piece of furniture with two doors, usually used to store clothes

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Platinum

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Very blonde, almost white

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Linoleum

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Type of material produced in sheets and used to cover floors and surfaces

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Magnolia (not the maid, the other kind)

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White flower usually found in the south

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Pursing

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To pucker or contract

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Record

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Thin plastic disk with grooves for playing music.

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Pillbox

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Type of Women’s hat with no brim

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Old maid

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Unmarried woman

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Uppity

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Stuck up, snobbish

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Fragile

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Delicate

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Greyhound

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Public bus system

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Phrase

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A group of words that does not contain a subject and a verb

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Prepositional phrase

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A phrase that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun

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Appositive

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A noun/pronoun that renames or identifies the noun/pronoun it follows

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Appositive phrases

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Appositives that include modifiers

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Infinitive

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Verbal that begins with “to” followed directly by a verb. Can function as a noun, adjective, or adverb

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Infinitive phrase

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An infinitive with modifiers and complements all working together as a noun, adjective, or adverb

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Gerund

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A verb form that is used as a noun and that ends with “ing”

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Gerund phrase

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A gerund with its modifiers and complements- all working together as a noun

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Participial

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A verb form used as an adjective and most often ends in ing, -ed, -en, -t, or any past participle form of a verb. Modify nouns or pronouns

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Participial phrase

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A group of words consisting of a participial and its modifiers and complements

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Adverb dependent clause

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Functions as an adverb in the sentence and begins with a subordinating conjunction

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Adjective dependent clause

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Will begin with a relative pronoun, acts as an adjective. Will appear directly behind the noun or pronoun it modifies

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Noun dependent clause

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Acts as a noun, never requires use of commas

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