front 1 Alack/Alas | back 1 used to express regret or sadness |
front 2 An | back 2 If |
front 3 Anon | back 3 Soon/ Right away |
front 4 Art | back 4 Are (Art thou = Are you) |
front 5 Aye | back 5 Yes |
front 6 Canst | back 6 Can (Canst thou = Can you) |
front 7 Didst | back 7 Did (Didst thou = Did you) |
front 8 Doth | back 8 Does |
front 9 E'en | back 9 Contraction of even |
front 10 E'er | back 10 Contraction of ever |
front 11 Hath/Hast | back 11 Has/Have |
front 12 Hence | back 12 Away |
front 13 Hie | back 13 hurry |
front 14 Prithee | back 14 I pray that you: I ask you |
front 15 Hither | back 15 Here |
front 16 Marry | back 16 Indeed |
front 17 Thee | back 17 You |
front 18 Thence | back 18 There |
front 19 Thine | back 19 Your |
front 20 Thither | back 20 There |
front 21 Thou | back 21 You |
front 22 Thyself | back 22 Yourself |
front 23 Whence | back 23 From where |
front 24 Wherefore | back 24 Why |
front 25 Wilt | back 25 Will (Thou wilt = You will) |
front 26 Withal | back 26 In addition |
front 27 Pun | back 27 a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a work or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. this girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never seen herbivore. |
front 28 Alliteration | back 28 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connect words. Busy bee, Dead as a door nail, looks like lions like licking lizards |
front 29 personification | back 29 the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form the leaves danced in the wind, love is blind |
front 30 foreshadowing | back 30 a warning of indication in the wind her early interest in air planes foreshadowed her later career as a pilot |
front 31 oxymoron | back 31 a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjuction awfully good, bitter sweet |
front 32 foil | back 32 a character who is present as a contrast to a second character to point out or show some aspect of the second character harry and draco, anna and elsa |
front 33 simile | back 33 a figure of speech comparing two things usually using the words like or as as strong as a ox, I ran like the wind, as quiet as a mouse |
front 34 imagery | back 34 a way of writing that trigger the 5 senses, images, or mental pictures. (taste, smell, touch, sight, hearing) the air smelled salty reminding me there was a beach nearby |
front 35 dramatic irony | back 35 when the audience knows more than the character. |
front 36 soliloquy | back 36 the act of talking to yourself (actor on the stage) |
front 37 aside | back 37 a speech or short comment that a character delivers to the audience |