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English I Welcome!
These notes supplement notes taken by students in class during the Freshman year. See the calendar for assignments!
Freshman Literary Term Vocabulary List
1. Genre 2. Descriptive writing 3. Narrative writing 4. Explanatory writing 5. Prose 6. Verse 7. Short Story 8. Bildungsroman 9. Minimalism 10. Novel 11. Poetry 12. Ballad 13. Free Verse 14. Blank Verse 15. Iambic Pentameter 16. Iamb 17. Sonnet 18. Ode 19. Haiku 20. Eulogy 21. Narrative poetry 22. Lyric poetry 23. Farce 24. Fiction 25. Non-fiction 26. Persuasion 27. Ethos 28. Pathos 29. Logos 30. Bias 31. Autobiography 32. Biography 33. Drama 34. Myth: qualities 35. Epic: qualities 36. Tragedy [drama]: qualities 37. Comedy [drama]: qualities 38. Satire 39. Fable 40. Tall Tale 41. Parody 42. Melodrama 43. Proverb 44. Inciting incident 45. Plot 46. Exposition 47. Rising Action 48. Turning Point 49. Climax 50. Falling Action 51. Resolution 52. Denouement 53. En Media Res 54. Narrative Hook 55. Subplot 56. Conflict 57. External conflict 58. Internal conflict 59. Complication 60. Juxtaposition 61. Irony 62. Situational Irony 63. Dramatic Irony 64. Verbal Irony 65. Protagonist 66. Antagonist 67. Tragic Hero: qualities 68. Epic Hero: qualities 69. Narrative frame 70. Homeric [or extended] metaphor or simile 71. The Hero’s Journey: qualities 72. Tragic Error 73. Tragic Flaw 74. Hubris 75. Epitaph 76. Narrator 77. Character 78. Flat Character 79. Round Character 80. Static Character 81. Dynamic Character 82. Foil 83. Stereotype 84. Stock character 85. Direct characterization 86. Indirect characterization 87. Theme 88. Stated theme 89. Implied theme 90. Moral 91. Point of view 92. First person 93. Third person 94. Second person 95. Limited 96. Omniscient 97. Symbol 98. Motif 99. Figures of speech 100. Metaphor 101. Simile 102. Personification 103. Hyperbole 104. Apostrophe 105. Allusion 106. Enjambment 107. Anachronism 108. Suspense 109. Double Entendre 110. Cliffhanger 111. Objective Correlative 112. Magical Realism 113. Analogy 114. Pun 115. Alliteration 116. Assonance 117. Consonance 118. Inversion [Inverted Language] 119. Connotation 120. Denotation 121. Conceit 122. Stage Directions 123. Aside 124. Soliloquy 125. Monologue 126. Paradox 127. Oxymoron 128. Allegory 129. Interjection 130. Archetype 131. Motivation 132. Mood 133. Tone 134. Setting 135. Atmosphere 136. Foreshadowing 137. Flashback 138. Epithet 139. Onomatopoeia 140. Imagery 141. Rhyme 142. Internal rhyme 143. Slant rhyme [forced rhyme] 144. Rhyme scheme 145. End rhyme 146. Refrain 147. Stanza 148. Couplet 149. Quatrain 150. Heroic couplet 151. Speaker [in poetry] 152. Rhythm 153. Meter 154. Dialogue 155. Bard 156. Catastrophe 157. Stage conventions 158. Prologue 159. Epilogue 160. Exeunt 161. Fray 162. Deus Ex Machina 163. Chorus/Greek Chorus 164. Comic Relief 165. Formal and informal language 166. Dialect 167. Jargon 168. Slang 169. Context clue 170. Anecdote
Parts of Speech are the types of words· Noun -- a person, place, thing, or idea· Verb -- an action or state of beingPronouns -- represent nouns [stand for nouns]o Examples§ Ordinary -- he, she, it, they, we§ Possessive -- his, hers, its, theirs, ours· Adjectives – modify or “add” to nouns· Adverbs – modify or “add” to verbs· Conjunctions -- join words or clauseso ando buto oro soo because [never comes after a comma]· Prepositions -- create relationshipso Memory clue -- a preposition is everything a squirrel can do with a treeo It can go§ up the tree§ over the tree§ around the tree§ through the tree ETC...· Articles -- introduce thingso A, an, the
Sentences Sentences have two parts… · A subjecto The subject contains the main noun and all words connected to it § EX:The tall lanky boy strode down the street.· A predicate o The predicate is the main verb part of the sentence and all words connected to that main verb.§ EX: The tall lanky boy strode down the street.· A main clause is the subject and verb of a sentence. Sometimes the main clause is the whole sentence.§ She rode home in the car. § He laughed.· A Run-On sentence is…§ Two sentences or more which are joined incorrectly!· EX: She came home and she went right to bed. § The most common type of Run-On Sentence is a comma splice. It is when two sentences are “spliced” together with a comma. · EX: He was dying to go to the concert, she had no intention of going.· Fix Run-Ons by…o Using a conjunction and a comma…§ , and§ He was dying to go to the concert, but she had no intention of going.§ , or§ , soo Using a semi-colon…§ He was dying to go to the concert; she had no intention of going.o Inserting a period! § He was dying to go to the concert. She had no intention of going.o Omit words or add words…§ Both he and she were· Sentence fragments are…o Incomplete sentences.§ In a minute.o Fragments are missing a verb part or a subject part. To fix them, you must add the missing parts: the subject [noun part], the predicate [verb part], or BOTH!§ In a minute.· To fix this fragment…o Add a subject.o Add a verb.o That’s adding a whole main clause!§ I will finish in a minute!
Agreement· A subject and the verb that works with it should “agree” or work together.o Wrong:§ He sit in the chair.§ They is home at the moment.o Correct:§ They are home now.§ He sits in the chair.
· Pronouns must agree with what is called the antecedent.o The antecedent is the noun that is replaced by the pronoun.§ | |
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