Owen English
first person
"I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective.
John Locke
17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.
dependent clause
A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb
Idiom
A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
Simlie
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Metaphor
A comparison without using like or as
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
common noun
A general name for a person, place, or thing
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem
Hippocampus
A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage.
Hypothalamus
A neural structure lying below the thalamus; it directs several maintenance activities (eating, drinking, body temperature), helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland, and is linked to emotion and reward.
noun
A person, place, thing, or idea
Allusion
A reference to another work of literature, person, or event bible
Conflict
A struggle between opposing forces
Hypothesis
A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
adjective
A word that describes a noun
Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
Pro noun
A word that takes the place of a noun
Conjunction
A word used to join words or groups of words
verb
An action word
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Pathos
Appeal to emotion
Logos
Appeal to logic
ehtos
Credible sources/your credibility
Imagery
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
Narrator
Person telling the story
third person
Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Person vs. Technology
The central character struggles with or against the forces of technology.
Person vs. Person
The character struggles against the will or actions of another character.
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
proper noun
a SPECIFIC person, place, thing, or idea
pun
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. play on words
dirt bike racing
a race
Hypnosis
a social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur
Thesis
a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.
narrative
a story
Person vs. Nature
a struggle between a character, and a force of nature
prefix
a syllable or word that comes before a root word to change its meaning
commons
after a word
Acronyms
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word
proper adjective
an adjective that is formed from a proper noun; example: Africa --> African; Scotland --> Scottish
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
retro
backward
person vs higher power
bad thing happen to good people
Bipolar
bipolar disorder
opportunity
chance
Hyperbole
exaggeration
independent clause
expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. Has both a subject and a verb.
new monic device
face FBI CIA
notorious
famous for something bad
Pardoy
humorous imitation
irrational
not based on reason or logic
subtle
not obvious
counter
opposite of ur option
symbolism
some tang that stand for something else
Person vs. Society
struggle between a character and a group of people or society as a whole
retroactive
taking effect from a date in the past
opportunity cost
the most desirable alternative given up as the result of a decision
alliteration
the repeating of consonant sounds used to draw attention
Repation
the truth
Person vs. Self
the type of struggle in which an individual is in direct conflict with his own desires or beliefs
Forshadowing
the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot
broken
to break
close
to close
fix
to fix
forfeit
to give up
suffix
word ending
antonyms
words that have opposite meanings
