Literary Terms Quick-Study Picture Guide!

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Literary TermsQuick-Study Picture Guide!
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Good Morning!

• Everyone needs a Piece of Paper.
• For the next 30 minutes, Define the Following
  Terms
• Allegory Gluttony Avarice
• Stanza Martyr
• Couplet Venerate
• Oxymoron Prurient
• Vernacular Chivalry
• Refrain Sloth

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1. Allegory

• A story in which characters, settings, and events
  stand for abstract moral concepts!

Such as a movie/story like Star Wars or Lord of
the Rings
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2. Stanza
Devil Went Down To Georgia lyricsThe Devil went
down to GeorgiaHe was lookin' for a soul to
stealHe was in a bind 'cause he was way
behindAnd he was willin' to make a dealWhen he
came across this young manSawin' on a fiddle and
playin' it hotAnd the Devil jumped up on a
hickory stumpAnd said, "Boy, let me tell you
what"I guess you didnt know itBut I'm a fiddle
player tooAnd if you care to take a dareI'll
just make a bet with you"

• an arrangement of a certain number of lines,
  forming a division of a poem.

Youtube link
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v0QVWQTDoMr4
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3. Couplet
Examples I found a starfish in the bay, When I
was fishing yesterday. Star fish, starfish in
the ocean, Moving along in slow motion. Many
arms and colored bright, Starfish are a pretty
sight.

• Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

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4. Oxymoron

• self-contradictory statement with an effect such
  as jumbo shrimp or awfully good!
• Examples Civil War, pretty ugly/awful
• Same difference
• Jumbo shrimp

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5. Vernacular
bromance

• using plain, everyday, ordinary language.

Sup?
Holla!
Slimdiggity!
My badness, yo!
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6. Refrain

• A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Once upon a
midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and
weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of
forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one
gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.'Tis
some visitor,' I muttered, tapping at my chamber
door -Only this, and nothing more.'Ah,
distinctly I remember it was in the bleak
December,And each separate dying ember wrought
its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the
morrow - vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my
books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost
Lenore -For the rare and radiant maiden whom the
angels named Lenore -Nameless here for evermore.
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7. Martyr

• a person who is put to death or endures great
  suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or
  cause

Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Beckett
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8. Venerate

• To hold in deep respect to honor

George Washington, the first president of the US
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9. Prurient

• having, inclined to have, or characterized by
  lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.

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10. Chivalry

• the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight,
  including courtesy, generosity, valor, and
  dexterity in arms.
• the rules and customs of medieval knighthood.

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11. Sloth

• habitual disinclination to exertion indolence
  laziness

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12. Gluttony

• Excessive eating or drinking

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13. Avarice

• insatiable greed for riches inordinate, miserly
  desire to gain and hoard wealth.

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Please study these words! There will be a quiz
on this date.

• If you can name the seven deadly sins, you can
  get bonus points!