English Honors 2 Semester 2 Final Exam

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Simile

Uses like or as to compare two things

She is like a ray of sunshine

Connotation

Feeling associated with a word

Rythm

A musical quality in launguage, that is created by repetiton of accents or stressed syllables.

Assonance

Repetion of similar vowel sounds in words that are close in a poem.

Consonance

Repetiton of a constant sound in the middle or at the end of a group of words

Prose

Written or spoken in its ordinary form

Basically the way an essay is wrote vs how a poem is wrote

How to analyze a poem

Under stand the poem its self

Examine word choices and lanuage used to explore the events

Note the structure and language and how they effect or enhance the story telling

Explain how the structure and poetic devices combinded help create the meaning in and of the poem

Sound effects

Typically used in free verse poems, give the poem a more descriptive and sensory feeling

Alliteration

Sentance where the first few words start off with the same letter.

Pansies poke purple tongues from terracotta pots on the balcony

Assonace

In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel

Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike

Consonance

Consonance is a literary device that occurs when words share the same consonant sounds, but they come after different vowel sounds.

The words 'dog' and rig' are near rhymes that use consonance.

Examples of immagery

Peach juice seeps down her chin

Similie example

See the tree limbs like bones

Parallel Plots

Stories of equal importance happening to different characters or in different settings.

Ex: Finding nemo, dad is trying to find son and son is trying to find dad

Subplots

Storylines that are developed alongside a novels main plot but are less important or recive less emphasis

Portent

Indication of something

Belies

Shows to be false; contradicts

Aught

Anything; whatever

Edict

An official decree or proclimation with the force of law

Arraigns

Calls before a court to answer a charge of somekind

Appeal to authority

An argument that includes the refrence of famouns person or strong public figure for suport even though he/she is rarely an authority

Circular argument

An argument in which the proposition or claim is being supported by the reasons which are then supported by the claim so basically doesn’t have enough information so they use the claim as their main source and reasoning.

Non-Sequitur

An argument that uses “reasons” that have nothing at all to do with the claim

Appeal to popular oppinion

Relies on the fact that most people want to be liked or fit in with the majority of their peers

Ad-Hominem

Focuses on a person rather than evidence. Ex: Since this person supports it and they are mean the cause there supporting is also bad

Association Fallacy

Based on a fact that does not support the claim but is only associated with some aspect of the topic

False dilemma

Implies that there are a limitted number of possible explations or solutions when, in reality there are many

Factions

Group of people forming closely connected subgroup within a larger group. think of movie divergent and their factions

Divergent

Differing from one another

Ideologies

Sets of ideas or beliefs about reality

Rationale

Reasons for believing or doing something

Infastruture

The facilities and services needed for the functioning of a community or society

Clause

A group of words that contains both a subject and a predicate

Predicate

“The child threw the ball”, the subject is “the child” and the predicate is “threw the ball.”

Independent Clause

Stands alone as a complete sentance

Subordiante clasue

Cannot stand alone as a complete sentance

Colon

One group explains or illustates the other

Compound sentance

Contains at least two independent clauses

Semi colon

Used to join 2 independent clauses together

Rhetoric

Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.

Examining persuasive lit

Identify the works persuasive message

Identify literary elements that help express the works message

3 explain how the elements that you have identified work together to express the works persuassive message

Aperatures

Openings such as holes or slits

Importunately

With annoying persistent urgency

Irresolve

Wavering hesitating

Contingency

a possible, though unlikely future event

Imponderable

Not able to precicely consider or evalvuate

Acquiescence

State of passive agrement or acceptance

Sealulously

With constant effort or application

Jargon

Words that pertain to a certain area of expertice, like mathmetical vocabulary or science vocabulary. Could also be used to confuse readers into making them think that what is being said is imporant.

Emotional wallop

Terms that target a readers emotions in an effort to trigger a strong emotion

Primary source

Documents or an interview from a person who lived through topic and or oberved it

Secondary source

People who are interpritating things from the primary source

Evocative

Bringing strong images, memories or feeling to mind

Duclimer

Stringed instrument used in folk music

Gregarious

Enjoying the company of others; sociable

Skiff

Flat bottomed open boat

Refute

Deny or reject as inaccurate

Espionage

The use of spies by a goventment to discover the military and political secrets of other nations

Discretion

Freedom or authority to make judgment and to take action

Supersede

To take place of

Clause

Groups of words that contain both a subject and a verb

Common conjuctive adverbs

Consequently, indeed, in fact, hence, however, then, therefore

A simple simple sentance can stand as a phrase

Dependent clause

Has a subject and verb but cant stand on its own as a sentance phrases lack a subject, a verb or both

Unprecidented

Never done before

Stamina

Endurance

Brigade

A small unit of an army

Humanitarian

Unselfish

Commisinary

A military post store that sells supplies

Best and most effective critique

An honest description of the works effect and it reflects on the positives and the negative aspects of the work and suggest certain elements that might have imporved its impact

Phenumbral definition

The partical shadow surrounding a perfect shadow (as in an eclipse

Incongruity

Lack of harmony, unstibilty

Congruity

Quality of agreement, appropriateness or harmony

Footnotes

Citations placed at the bottom of the same page on which the information or quote appears

End notes

Citations listed at the end of the entire report

Pathos

Emotional appeal to personal stories

Logos

Using evidence and logical arguments

Ethos

Speaks credibilty and relevance of topic

Clinche

In last part of conlusion basically like the hook of the ending paragraph but not the same hook from the begging something that will make the reader reflect on the topic

A good rule to remember when deciding whether to use a semicolon?

A semicolon can be used where you might use a period.

Memoir

Someone retelling real life events that happend in their life

What should the conclusion of a literary analysis essay do

Restate and expand upon the original claim statement

This sentance shows how you could use a semi colon

They met at the restaurant before prom; they didn’t want to be hungry at the dance.

 

Which statement describes the use of semicolons in the following sentence?

On our vacation in San Antonio, Texas, we did the following: viewed the botanical gardens, a beautiful place with multicolored flowers; ate on the River Walk, a tourist site akin to the canals in Italy; visited the zoo, where we laughed at the antics of the monkeys; and shopped at the Mercado, a large building full of Mexican shops.

Semicolons are used correctly because the listed items include commas

What type of logical fallacy is an error in how the writer characterizes the relationship between two events

False cause (False cause asserts a cause-and-effect relationship between two events simply because the events occurred at the same time.)

Seven elements of effective digital storytelling

Point of view, Dramatic question, emotional content, voice, pacing, soundtrack, clarity

Reflective essays point of view

First person

Sex appeal

Subtle (or not so subtle) hints that the reader will be more attractive to others if he or she accepts the claim

Films and graphic novels are examples of what

Media

What point of view should a digital story be told from?

When I was born, my mother brought me home to her mother’s house. (A digital story should be personal, and should be told from the first-person point of view)

List contains four details that a citation for an online source must include

Author, title of the article, url of the website, date you accessed it (A citation contains specific information about each source used in a research project)

List contains four details that a citation for a magazine article must include

Author of the article, title of the article, title of the magazine, copyright date

If the text that introduces a quote is not a complete sentence, which punctuation mark should you use between that text and your quotation

A comma

What is the best reason to include a footnote or end note in your paper

To give extensive additional information on a detail or a quote