English III Final Exam Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards for English III final exam review, covering The Great Gatsby, The Crucible, Catcher in the Rye, Rhetoric, MLA format, and Poetry.

Inviolate

Incapable of being violated or infringed.

Tumultuous

Making a loud, confused noise; uproarious.

Sensuous

Relating to or affecting the senses rather than the intellect.

Green light

Hope, the American Dream (in The Great Gatsby).

Valley of Ashes

Moral and social decay (in The Great Gatsby).

Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg

Spiritual emptiness or societal judgment (in The Great Gatsby).

Gatsby’s parties

Illusion vs. reality (in The Great Gatsby).

Reverend Parris

Concerned with reputation (in The Crucible).

Abigail Williams

Manipulative, obsessed with John Proctor (in The Crucible).

John Proctor

Moral conflict, guilt, redemption (in The Crucible).

Elizabeth Proctor

Loyalty, dignity (in The Crucible).

Reverend Hale

Starts as an expert, ends disillusioned (in The Crucible).

Pathos

Emotional appeal.

Ethos

Credibility of the speaker.

Logos

Logical reasoning.

Simile

A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Anaphora

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.