English 1 final exam rev. Flashcards
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pernicious
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causing great injury or ruin
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adversary
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one who opposes or fights against another
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argumenting
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making larger, increasing or enlarging
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grievance
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injusto or complaint
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oppression
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feeling of being weighted down with worries or problem
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exile
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to send away, banish
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transgression
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an act that breaks a law, rule, or code of conduct, wrongdoing
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procure
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to get or obtain, usually with great care, or effort
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predominant
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of or having the stronger influence or power
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intercession
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act of pleading on another’s behalf.
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sallow
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a sickly, pale, yellow hue or complection
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eloquence
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a graceful and persuasive speech
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lamentable
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distressing, unsatisfactory, causing sadness or sorrow
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unwieldy
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awkward or clumsy
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gallant
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brave and noble
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fray
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a noisy fight
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martial
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related to the military, warlike
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fickle
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easily changed or affected
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pensive
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deeply thoughtful
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vial
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a small bottle containing medicine or other liquids
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disperse
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to spread apart, to break up and scatter in all directions
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wayward
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difficult to control, headstrong or stubborn
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dismal
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causing gloom or misery
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loathsome
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disgusting or detestable, extremely unlikable
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remnants
whatever is left over, remainders
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penury
extreme poverty
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enjoined
instructed, ordered, or urged to do something
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haughty
acting superior to others; arrogant
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ambiguities
statements or events whose meanings are unclear
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sourge
instrument for inflicting punishment
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aside
a brief remark made directly to the audience which reveals a character's private thought(s)
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oxymoron
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
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syntax
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in language
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iamb
poetic foot consisting of one stressed and one unstressed syllable
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iambic pentameter
five iambs used to create a live of verse
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hyperbole
an exaggerated statement or claim NOT meant to be taken literally
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situational irony
literary device when actions or events have the opposite result form what is intended or expected
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simile
figure of speech comparing one thing with another using the words like or as
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monolougue
a lengthy, extended speech delivered by a character to characters present onstage
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sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines following a strict rhyme scheme and dramatic change in lines 9 or 13
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pun
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or words which sound alike but have different meanings
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soliloquy
a speech in which a character is alone onstage and reveals his or her inner thoughts to the audience
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quatrain
a stanza of four lines; usually with alternating lines
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allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it specifically
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verbal irony
speaker says one thing but means another, sarcasm
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metaphor
figure of speech, a thing regarded as representative of symbolic of something else, abstract
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chorus
a group of actors who described and commented upon the main action of a play with song, dance, and recitation
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Foil
a character used as contrast/opposite to another character
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diction
the style of enuncitation
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onomatopeia
the formation of a word from a sound
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couplet
two lines of rhyming verse
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paradox
self-contradictory statement or proposition that is true
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dramatic irony
audience understanding the outcome of a situation but characters unaware of what's happening
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personificaiton
nonhuman characteristics to a non human (ex: object)
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common noun
common words that name person, place or thing or idea
| ex; cat
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proper noun
name used for individual person, place or thing
| ex; Target
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personal pronoun
word that replaces a noun, associated with first person, second or third person
ex; she
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possessive pronoun
word that replaces noun, shows "ownership"
| ex; his
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verb
word that shows action, state of being, or occurance
| ex; was
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adjetive
word that describes a noun, or noun phras
| ex; joyful
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adverb
word that conveys info about how, when, where and to what extent something happens, modifies verb
ex; somewhere
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preposition
word that provides info such as time, directory, or other place
ex; on
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appositive phrases
phrase that provides more info about noun
| ex; my friend Michael or Michael, my friend,
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prepositional phrase
phrase that begins with a preposition and clarifies time, place or direction
ex; on the table
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participle phrase
phrase that begins with a participle and modifies a noun by adding description
ex; clogged the drain
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simple sentence
a sentence with only one clause
| ex; My cat ran away.
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compound sentence
a sentence with more that one subject an/or predicate; two clauses are connected with a comma + FANBOYS
ex; David's cat ran across the street, but couldn't jump over the fence
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complex sentence
a sentence with an independent and dependent clause connected by AAAWWUBBIS
ex; Although the paper woth gray, it was originally white.
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compound-complex sentence
a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
ex; Although Mitchell prefers watching romantic films, he rented the lattes spy thriller, as he enjoyed the trailer very much.
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Subordinating conjunctions
a conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause AAAWWUBBIS- after, although, as, when , while, until, because, before, if, since
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Coordinating conjunctions
words used to connnect clauses, or items in a list- FANBOYS- for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
