Academic Vocabulary

2nd Semester

Academic Vocabulary

• Meter - The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.

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• Iambic Pentameter - A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.

Lines in iambic pentameter consist of ten syllables alternating between stressed and unstressed syllables.

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• Free Verse - Poetry that does not rhyme.

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• Alliteration - the use of words that begin with the same sound near one another (as in wild and woolly or a babbling brook ).

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• Internal Rhyme - rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the same line or within another line.

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• End Rhyme - in poetry, a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses.

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• Rhyme Scheme - A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme.

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• Irony - A contrast between expectation and reality. What we (or the characters) expect to happen and what really takes place are different.

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• Narrator - a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.

• Poe’s narrators are often unreliable…

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• Objectivity – Judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.

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• Subjectivity – Judgment based on individual impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts.

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• Absolve – to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt

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• Intuitive – obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation.

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• Assertion – A positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason.

It shall forever be known as…Taco

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Academic Vocabulary• Transcendentalism - an idealistic philosophical and social movement that

developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures. (What does any of that mean?)

• A movement in nineteenth-century American literature and thought. It called on people to view the objects in the world as small versions of the whole universe and to trust their individual intuitions. The two most noted American transcendentalists were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

• In your own words, combine these two into one definition. Pull apart the tough stuff and piece it together.

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• Anti-Transcendentalism - emphasized human fallibility and proneness to sin and self-destruction, as well as the difficulties inherent in attempts at social reform. (Also called Dark Romanticism)

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• Protagonist – The main character of the story. Often referred to as the “hero” or “good guy.”

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• Characterization - the creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters.

• Direct vs. Indirect Characterization– Direct – Facts are stated directly about a character

i.e. John is tall.– Indirect – A character is described through actions

and what he/she says. i.e. Suzy stopped and dumped her spare change into the man’s bucket.

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• Active/Passive Voice –– Active – The subject is performing an action on a

direct object.• Example: The man must have eaten five hamburgers.

– Passive – The order of the sentence is changed so that the direct object comes first.• Five hamburgers must have been eaten by the man.

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• Narrative - a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.