English Flashcards

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Theme

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Recurring ideas

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Figurative language

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Language used on more than one level (symbolism, simile, metaphor)

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Simile

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An expressed comparison using words “Like” or “as” (Makes you think)

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Metaphor

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A SUGGESTED comparison that compares two dissimilar things (makes you feel)

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Repetition

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Use of repeated words or phrases throughout a work

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Eupony

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Refers to words that are pleasant to the ear

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Parallelism

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Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses or sentences

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Cacophony

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Harsh to the ear

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Tenor

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The main object, or character. Of a metaphor (direct comparison not using “like” or “as”) is the origin being subject.

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Vehicle

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The image the tenor is being compared to.

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Implied comparison

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Metaphors that are indirectly conveyed (makes you think)

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Extended Metaphor

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Metaphors developed beyond a single sentence or comparison. (Metaphors that you have to trace through stories)

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Allegory

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A type of extended metaphor that has multiple layers of meaning and symbolism. Like “The animal farm”

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Metonymy

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An expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself. Saying “The white house” referring to the prestandant.

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Synecdoche

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using part of something to stand for a whole “Jack got some new wheels” He actually got a new car

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Personification

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gives human characteristics to something not human

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Apostrophe

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Literature that addresses an absent person, abstraction, or object. (like you talk to a dead person)

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Emily Dickinson Wrote poetry about what?

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Nature

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In “The Return of the Rangers” what is the main ideas

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Man vs. a Greater Force

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Who was the author of “The Return of the Rangers”

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Kenneth Roberts

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In “The Return of the Rangers” what pgycial objects do they have to get over?

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In “The Return of the Rangers” what did they go looking for?

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Food: Squril And quil

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In “The Return of the Rangers” Who leads the team back?

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Who is the hero of “The Return of the Rangers”

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Major Roggers

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In Mother to son what is the tenor and vehicle
Tenor: Life Vechicle: stairs
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Theme Of "Mother and Son"
Theme: Keeping your best in a hard life
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who wrote Mother to Son
Langston Hughes
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Mother to son Is...
A meataphor
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The souls dark cottage is written by who?
Edmund Waller
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In "The souls dark cottage" what does the cottage repersent?
Your old body
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In "The souls dark cottage" what is the Theme
Talks about death in a positive view
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Who wrote "The windows?"
George Herbert
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In "The window" what two things are compared?
Compares the stain glass to a christan showing Gods truth and his love
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What is the Vechile in "The window"
The glass window
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What is the tenor in "The window"
The chariteristics of a christan
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Who wrote "The spider and the Wasp?"
Alexander PetrunkeVitch
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Who is the smarter spechies in "The spider and the wasp"
The wasp but the spider produces more so its all good
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The wasp is what color?
Rust
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In "The Nightingale and the Glow Worm" what kind of poetry does the worm represent?
Wisdom
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In "The Nightingale and the Glow Worm" what kind of poetry does the Nightingale represent?
for fun
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Why are they both important?
Because God made them both
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In "What stumped the Blue Jay" what trait does the blue jay have?
Communication
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Who wrote "what stumped the blue jay"
Mark twain
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What was mark twain known for
Humor
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4 steps for writing a paragraph.
1. Plan 2. Write 3. Rewrite 4. Edit
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1st sentence:
Topic sentence
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Summarizing sentence
The clincher uses Keywords (transitional)
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Ways to write a phargapharph
1. Insidenace 2. Reasons 3. Compare and contrast
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