| A | B |
|---|
| Subjective | personal feelings,attitudes,and opinions |
| Round Character | many sided,we know a lot about the way they act and why |
| Flat Character | stereotyped,small and one-dimensional |
| Static character | never-changing,doen't change by the end of the story |
| Dynamic character | character is different at the end, learned and changed as a result of the conflict |
| Elegy | usually a lyric poem on death or some other somber subject |
| Ellipsis | the leaving out of a word or passage in a text, indicated by spaced periods |
| Eulogy | a spoken or written praise, particularly the praise of a person who has died |
| Farce | literature based on a highly humorous and highly improbably plot |
| Homonyms/Homophones | two words that are spelled alike, sound alike, but have different meanings,i.e.,grave,bear;two words that sound alike,night,knight,but are spelled differently |
| I.E. | Latin abbreviation for"that is" |
| Poet Laureate | the officially recognized or chief poet of a nation |
| Prose | literary writing not marked by rhyme or meter |
| Rhetoric | the art of persuasion by speech or writing |
| Rhyme Scheme | pattern of rhyme in a stanza |
| Satire | a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness,often with the intent of correcting or changing the way things are |
| Stereotype | a judgement based on only one aspect of a person's character |
| Trilogy | a group of three related works |
| Vernacular | the native language of any particular place |
| Citation | the entry that results when citing or quoting an authority or resource;a quotation |
| Primary source | an original and authoritative document pertaining to an event or subject of inquiry; a firsthand or eyewitness account of an event,i.e. an autobiography |
| Secondary source | any document that describes an event,person,place,or thing,. not created contmporaneously,i.e. a biography |
| Acronym | a word formed from the initial letters of words in phrases,i.e.,NASA |
| Initialism | a set of initials representing a name or organization,with each letter pronounced seperately i.e.,FBLA |
| Allegory | characters and often parts of the narrative usually represent moral values,i.e.,Lord of the Flies |
| Analogy | A partial similarity,as the computer is like the brain,or in reasoning, the inference that if things are similar ub jbiwb ways, they are probably similar in other ways,i.e.,petal:flower::leaf:tree |
| Malcontent | rebellious |
| Abhor | hate or disgust |
| Omnipotent | all-powerful |
| Sacrilege | disrespect for something sacred |
| Presumptuous | to take for granted |
| Ignominy | dishonor,public shame |
| Avaricious | greedy |
| Propaganda | information,ideas,or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person,group,movement, institution,nation,etc. |
| Totalitarianism | relating to a political regime based on subordination of an individual and strict control of all aspects of life by coercive measures |
| Communism | form of government where everyone is supposed to be equal |
| Dictatorship | form of government when one person has complete control |
| Cynical | showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions |
| Reverent | deeply respectful |
| Apathy | absence of emotion |
| Solemn | deeply earnest,serious |
| Advocated | to speak or write in favor of |
