English 10

1. English 10 Quarter 4 Vocabulary List 1

2. Alliteration Repetition of beginning sounds of words. Example: Peter Piper Picked a Peck Like Tongue Twisters

3. Assonance Repeating similar sounds, especially of the vowel sound in words. Examples: penitent and reticence

4. Consonance Repetition of consonants at the end of words Examples: Blank and think Strong and string

5. Homonym • a word the same as another in sound and spelling but different in meaning Bank(an embankment--) Bank(place where money is kept)

6. Homophone • a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not knight heir night air

7. Rime (also spelled Rhyme) • A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.

8. Onomatopoeia • Words that imitate the sound they make. Pow Zoom Bam

9. Lyric poetry • a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry

10. Ode • A kind of poem devoted to the praise of a person, animal, or thing. An ode is usually written in an elevated style and often expresses deep feeling.

11. Sonnet 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with a definite rhyme scheme. • Iambic unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (like a heartbeat). • Pentameter 5 feet = 10 syllables

12. English 10 Quarter 4 Vocabulary List 2

13. Genre A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, etc… Example: Sonnet or A Play

14. Diamante A seven line poem, shaped like a diamond

15. Two-voice Poem Poem that expresses the opinion of two speakers on the same subject

16. Free verse • Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern ONE BEAT TWO BEATS FOUR BEATS

17. Lyric poetry • a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry

18. Cinquain • A short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, 2, 4, 6, 8, & 2 syllables per line; any stanza of five lines

19. Stanza • An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division in a poem.

20. Couplet • Two lines of poetry that contain end rhyme

21. Rhyme Scheme • The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences (ababbcc). • (REPETITION)

22. Quatrain four lines of poetry that contain end rhyme

23. English 10 Quarter 4 Vocabulary List 3

24. Anaphora The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs Example: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills"(Winston S. Churchill).

25. Repetition the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device Example: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

26. Inversion the reversal of the normal order of words Example: saying "echoed the hills" to mean "the hills echoed."

27. Declarative Sentence • commonly makes a statement • Example: I am going home.

28. Imperative Sentence • used to make a demand or request • Example: Go do your homework.

29. Exclamatory Sentence • generally a more emphatic form of statement • Example: What a wonderful day this is!

30. Interrogative Sentence • commonly used to request information — • Example: What are you going to do all summer?

31. Rhetorical Devices • a technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in his audience (his reader(s) or listener(s)). These emotional responses are central to the meaning of the work or speech, and should also get the audience's attention.

32. Style • in literature, the mysterious yet recognizable result of a successful blending of form with content

33. Syntax sentence structure Example: Complex sentences= When the bell rings (dependent clause), walk out (main clause).

34. English 10 Quarter 4 Vocabulary List 4

35. Prose • Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure. • Commonplace expression or quality Example: John opened the door.

36. Voice expression in spoken or written words, or by other means Example: She voiced her disapproval in a letter to the committee.

37. Tone a particular style or manner, as of writing or speech; Example: the ghoulish tone of Poe's stories .

38. Persona • the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author* • a person's perceived or evident personality, as that of a well-known official, actor, or celebrity; personal image; public role

39. Point of View • the position of the narrator in relation to the story Where is the Narrator trying To take me?

40. First Person Point of View • the narrator is a character in the story • the first person commonly uses: "I saw, We did,", etc Example: I jumped out of the plane.

41. Objective Point of View • can record only what is seen and heard. It cannot comment, interpret, or enter a character's mind. The purest example of a story told from the objective point would be one written entirely in dialogue .

42. Omniscient Point of View • The story is told by the author, using the third person, and his knowledge and choices are unlimited. He can interpret the behavior of his characters; he can comment, if he wishes, on the significance of the story he is telling.

43. Limited Omniscient Point of View The author tells the story in the third person, but he tells it from the viewpoint of one character in the story

44. Narrative consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story Example: narrative poetry

45. English 10 Quarter 4 Vocabulary List 5

46. Mood • refers to the general sense or feeling which the reader is supposed to get from the text

47. Symbolism A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well. Things, characters and actions can be symbols. Anything that suggests a meaning beyond the obvious Example: bright sunshine = goodness

48. Imagery . Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses Example: (auditory) Mowing - the scythe whispering to the ground

49. Diction • the term for a writer or speaker's distinctive choices in vocabulary and style of expression

50. Connotation • The meaning a word takes when spoken in everyday language • Example: Clean= tight/good “Yo, Mrs. Huff-izzle, that’s clean!”