Vocabulary Puritan Unit

tone

attitude of the author

oxymoron

two words or phrases that contradict each other

couplet

two lines that rhyme

effect

the feelings a reader gets from a piece of work

theme

main idea of a piece of work

point of view

the vantage point in which the piece of work is told in

hyperbole

exaggeration

internal conflicts

a conflict inside/man vs himself (emotion)

external conflicts

a conflict outside of one self man vs man, man vs nature

chronological order

story told in the order in which they occured

anti

go against

re

to do again

fin

end

aqu

water

hemi

half

-dom

state of being

-i.e./y

small/tiny

alter

change

amplitude

to go higher

sight rhyme

2 words that look like they rhyme, but they don't

abase

to downgrade/belittle