unit4 Flashcards by Anoushka A

tyranny meaning

oppressive exercise of power

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

husks meaning

dry external layer of certain fruits or seeds

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

crowns meaning

a foreign coin of certain value

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

duke meaning

a noble holding highest rank outside royal family

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

outlaw meaning

a person who has broken the law and remains a fugitive

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

subtly meaning

skilfull, ingenious, clever

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

high flown meaning

extravagent

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

whetstone meaning

a piece of stone used for sharpening cutlery

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

pancakes meaning

flat cake of batter fried on both sides rolled up with sweet or savoury

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

unleash meaning

set free

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

knave meaning

dishonest man

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

knight meaning

a man who served his soverreigns

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

slander literary device

crime of making false spoken statemnet damaging a persons reputation

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

apparent meaning

able to be seen or understood

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

proclamations meaning

public or official announcements

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

piteous meaning

diserving pity

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

snuck meaning

sneak

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

scorned meaning

to express contempt

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

graces meaning

to bring honour or credit

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

mourn meaning

feel sorrow for a loss

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

misconstrue meaning

to interpret wrongly

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

malice meaning

desire to harm someone

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

conventional meaning

in accordance with beliefs

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

firm meaning

solid structure, reselient

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

**boar spear** meaning

a spear used for hunting bears

**clownish** meaning

humorously exaggerated

**temperamental** meaning

a persons unreasonable changes of mood

**burrs** meaning

rough edge left on an object by a tool

**devious** meaning

showing skillfull use of negative tactics to achieve goals

**smudge** meaning

messily smeared

**swaggering** meaning

parade with arrogance

**modest** meaning

unassuming

**tumult** meaning

confusion

**choristers** meaning

singers in a choir

**blithely** meaning

without care

**cadence** meaning

rhythmic music

**rapture** meaning

extreme pleasure

**amber** meaning

brownish yellow

**ebony** meaning

a hard deep black

**marauders** meaning

plunderers

**sanctuary** meaning

place of safety

**homing** meaning

going home

**ballad** genre

oldest form of poetry in a song form narrating a story in short stanzas

**biography** genre

life history of a person written by someone else

**comedy** genre

the term in any discourse or work generally inducing laughter

**couplet** literary device

a pair of successive lines of verse typically rhyming and of same length

**elegy** genre

poem of serious reflections, a lament for the dead

**epic** genre

long narrative poem in relation to the central heroic figure, becoming a part of history of a nation or race

**folklore** genre

traditional beliefs and customs or stories of a community passed through generations by word of mouth

**haiku** genre

a japanese poem of seventeen syllables in three lines of 5,7,5 evoking images of natural world

**horror** genre

literature intented to scare disgust or startle reader through feelings of terror and sometimes through supernatural elements

**lampoon** literary device

publicly criticize by ridicule or sarcasm

**limerick** genre

humorous five line poem with a rhyme scheme aabba

**lyric** genre

poetry expressing subjective or personal point of view

**novel** genre

fictitious long prose narrative of book length

**novella** genre

a short or a long short story

**ode** genre

a type of lyrical stanza elaborately structured poem praising an event or individual

**romance** genre

literature that aims to evoke strong emotions in the audience

**satire** literary device

use of humorous irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose famous personalities

**sonnet** genre

fourteen line poem usuing any number of rhyme schemes

**short story** genre

story with a well developed theme, much shorter and less elaborate than a novel

**villanelle** genre

nineteen-line pastoral lyrical poem, with only two rhymes throughout and some lines repeated

**connotation** literary device

the feelings and associations suggested by a wod

**hyperbole** literary device

an exaggeration of something

**imagery** literary device

the creation of images using words

**irony** literary device

a difference or contrast

**oxymoron** literary device

phrase consisting of contradictory terms

**paradox** literary device

statement that at first appears contradictory but which on closer examination contains truth

what is a calligram

a visual representation of a word or poem, that reflects the meaning

what is stress in english

it is the emphasis given to select sounds or syllables in words. this means some words are pronounced louder than the others.

what is intonation in english

it is the way the pitch of a speakers voice goes up or down as they speak.