Vocabulary Flashcards

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Local Color

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Distinctive, sometimes pictures, characteristics or peculiarities of a place or period as represented in literature or drama or as observed in reality.

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Personification

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A comparison in which human qualities are given to it in an inanimate object or an animal.

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3
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Assonance

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The repetition of vowels sounds.

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4
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Symbol

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Something which has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself.

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Apostrophe

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Words addressed to an inanimate object as if it were alive or to an absent person as if he were present.

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Simile

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An expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as, resembles, or similar to are used.

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Imagery

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The use of words that appeal to our senses(sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste).

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Consonance

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The repetition of final consonant sounds

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9
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Approximate Rhyme

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Sound similarities that occur between words which are not true rhymes.

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10
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Refrain

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A phrase or sentence, which is repeated at intervals, usually at the end of a stanza.

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Rhyme

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The correspondence of sounds.

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12
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Dialect

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A variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially

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13
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Alliteration

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An approximate rhyme in which beginning constant sounds are the same.

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14
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Metaphor

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An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another.

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15
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End Rhyme

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The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines

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16
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Onomatopoeia

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Uses words which sound like what they mean(growl, hiss, pop).

17
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Dialogue

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Conversation between two or more persons.

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Free verse

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Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.

19
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Tone

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The writers or speaker’s attitude toward his subject. The Tone of a work may be formal, informal, ironic, sarcastic, somber, playful, solemn, light, condescending, intimate, or detached.

20
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Allusion

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A reference to mythology, history, literature, or the Bible.

21
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Feminine rhyme

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Rhyme involving two or more syllables.

22
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Cacography

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Bad handwriting or spelling.

23
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Psuedonym

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A fictitious name used especially by an author to conceal their Identity; Pen name.

24
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Internal Rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs within the line.

25
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Plot

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Main events of a play, novel, movie.

26
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Satire

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The use of Irony, sarcasm, ridicule or the like, to expose, denounce, or deride the folly or corruption of institutions, people, or social structures.

27
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Masculine Rhyme

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Rhyme involving only one syllable.