9th Grade English Academic Word List

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  1. allegory
    a short moral story
  2. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  3. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
  4. argument
    a dispute where there is strong disagreement
  5. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  6. conflict
    an open clash between two opposing groups
  7. consonance
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  8. counterargument
    an opinion offered in opposition to another position
  9. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  10. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  11. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  12. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  13. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
  14. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  15. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  16. plot
    a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
  17. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  18. point of view
    a mental position from which things are perceived
  19. prose
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  20. resolution
    a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
  21. rhythm
    an interval during which a recurring sequence occurs
  22. meter
    a basic unit of length (approximately 1.094 yards)
  23. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  24. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  25. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  26. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  27. tone
    the distinctive property of a complex sound
  28. universalism
    the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved
Created on Fri Dec 18 14:45:02 EST 2009

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