Honors English 10 Final Exam Study Guide

Acquiesce

Agree without protest

Affliction

Cause of pain or distress

Alacrity

Quickness; eagerness

Ample

Large; more than enough

Assent

Agreement

Aversion

Strong dislike

Candid

Honest; straightforward

Despotism

Tyrannical rule

Dilapidated

In disrepair

Discord

Disagreement

Efface

To erase

Eloquence

Skilled, forceful speech

Extort

Obtain by threat

Finite

Having limits

Infinity

Endless; unlimited

Insidious

Sneaky; harmful

Magnanimity

Generosity

Ostentation

Showy display

Parsimony

Stinginess

Pensive

Deep in thought

Perpetual

Lasting forever

Prevalent

Widespread

Privileges

Special rights

Rectitude

Moral correctness

Sublime

Majestic; noble

Superfluous

More than needed

Tranquil

Calm; peaceful

Vigilant

Watchful for danger

Address

The literary device apostrophe; direct speech to absent/dead/personified subject

Allusion

Reference to well-known person, event, or work

Analogy

Extended comparison of relationships

Aphorisms

Concise statement expressing general truth

Character

Person/animal in a literary work

Direct characterization

Author directly states traits

Dramatic irony

Audience knows more than characters

Exact rhyme

Perfect rhyme of words, often line endings

Foot

Basic rhythmic unit in poetry (stressed + unstressed)

Indirect characterization

Traits revealed through actions, speech, appearance

Irony

Contrast between expectation and reality

Meter

Rhythmic pattern of stresses/beats in poetry

Mood

Feeling or atmosphere created for reader

Paradox

Contradictory statement revealing truth

Parallelism

Repetition of grammatical structures

Political speech

Speech aimed to persuade on political issues

Repetition

Reusing words or phrases for effect

Rhetorical question

Question asked for effect, not answer

Rhetorical devices

Language tools to persuade and emphasize

Restatement

Saying the same idea in different words

Sermon

Long religious speech

Situational irony

Event opposite to what's expected

Slant rhyme

Imperfect rhyme

Speech

Formal spoken presentation

Synecdoche

Part represents whole or vice versa

Verbal irony

Saying the opposite of what's meant