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