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Literature Vocab
Maus Vocab
Romeo & Juliet Vocab
Kindred Vocab
Maddie H Facts
100
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
100
an account of ones experiences arranged in such a way as to create an interesting story
What is a memoir?
100
written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure
What is prose?
100
Showing strong feeling
What is vehement?
100
Her favorite color.
What is green?
200
A literary technique when the story opens at the midpoint of the narrative
What is in medias res?
200
A story contains another story creating a story within a story
What is frame narrative?
200
A remark or passage said by a character in a play that is only intended to be heard by the audience
What is aside?
200
the capacity of an individual to act independently and to make their own free choices
What is agency?
200
her favorite rapper
What is Kanye West a.k.a Yeezus?
300
Repeated vowel sounds
What is assonance?
300
the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object
What is anthropomorphism?
300
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is oxymoron?
300
Exaggeration by means of ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics
What is caricature?
300
her favorite Benjamin nickname
What is Cinnaben?
400
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
What is metonymy?
400
the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
What is catharsis?
400
the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
What is catharsis?
400
Childishly bad tempered
What is petulant?
400
Her favorite beverage
What is coconut water?
500
knowing everything
What is omniscient?
500
the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions
What is meta-fiction?
500
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
What is allusion?
500
societal patterns that impose oppressive laws, customs and patterns
What is institutional racism?
500
That essay writing camp she has to go to for five weeks
What is Andover Summer Session?