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Literature terms. vocab
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9th Grade
01/12/2009
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palpable
 Definition
obivous capable of being touched
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annihilate
 Definition
destroy completely
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surrealism
 Definition
fantasy/ unconsistent
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frivolous
 Definition
not worthy of attention, silly
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succor
 Definition
person giving assistance to a person i time of need
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incessantly
 Definition
non stopping
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Nobliesse Oblige
 Definition
nobility to take care of poor
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resilient
 Definition
ability to recover to original
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indolenty
 Definition
lazy inactive
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cliche
 Definition
trite phrase
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acquisced
 Definition
consent w/o protest
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pauper
 Definition
poor person
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retribution
 Definition
something that wasz deserved
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undulate
 Definition
wavelike movement
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embroiled
 Definition
involve in a conflict to throw into dsisorder
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imprudent
 Definition
rash unwise
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impose
 Definition
establish something to comply
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hyperbole
 Definition
extravagant and exaggeration
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empathetic
 Definition
understanding
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exorbitant
 Definition
exceeding exccessively high
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posterity
 Definition
all future generations
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ordain
 Definition
establish
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indictment
 Definition
strong disapproval charged for offense
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alleged
 Definition
supposed to be true
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disfranchisement
 Definition
deprive of business
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disconcerted
 Definition
thrown into confusion
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hook
 Definition
catches the readers interest encourages a person to read on
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plot
 Definition
a series of related events
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conflict
 Definition
problem that arises (internal, external)
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Climax
 Definition
key scene, outcome of conflict revealed
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narrator
 Definition
person telling the story
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mood
 Definition
emotional attitude the author takes
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suspense
 Definition
uncertainty readers feel about the future
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Charcter
 Definition
person in a work of art
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static
 Definition
stays the same
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dynamic
 Definition
changes
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round
 Definition
well developed charcter
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flat
 Definition
undeveloped charcter
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Theme
 Definition
message of a work of art
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Theme
 Definition
message of a work of art
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Context clues
 Definition
words that help you understand the meaning of an unkown word
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resolution
 Definition
denouement struggles are over ends the story
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point of view
 Definition
point of view in which the story is told
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objective
 Definition
detached view
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3rd person
 Definition
non participating person
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1st
 Definition
a charcters point of view
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omnicesent
 Definition
all points of view
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symbol
 Definition
thing that means more than it seems
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main idea
 Definition
central thought
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setting
 Definition
place where events occur
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Chronological order
 Definition
time line order inwhich events actually occur
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genre
 Definition
categories of literature
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irony
 Definition
different outcome than expected
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foreshadowing
 Definition
predict future outcome
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rising action
 Definition
when a problem starts to arise
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exposition
 Definition
resolution ending of story
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compositon
 Definition
begining intro to setting and charcters
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flashback
 Definition
recurring image
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tone
 Definition
writers attitude
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metaphor
 Definition
word or phrase compared to unlikely object
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dialect
 Definition
variety of a language
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Personification
 Definition
giving nonliving object living charcteristics
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simile
 Definition
using is or as two unlike things
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allusion
 Definition
figure of speech referncing to something else
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Byronic Hero
 Definition
smart, cunning, mysterious,moody,dark past, outcast, arrogant
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verbal irony
 Definition
saying something and meaning something else
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dramatic irony
 Definition
knowing something charcters do not know
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situational irony
 Definition
unexepected outcome
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technical climax
 Definition
turning point of plot charcter choice to change
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dramatic climax
 Definition
greatest intensity and interest
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Constitutional Monarchy
 Definition
head of state no absolute power
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Altitude of a triangle
 Definition
vertex to opposite line perpendicular
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biconditional statement
 Definition
p if and only q
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centroid
 Definition
point of concurrency medians
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circumcenter
 Definition
point of concurrency for Perpendicular bisectors
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concurrent
 Definition
3 lines that intersect at one point
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conditionals tatement
 Definition
p then q
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conjecture
 Definition
trusted to be true
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contrapositive
 Definition
no q then no p
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converse
 Definition
if q then p
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inverse
 Definition
if not p then not q
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Deductive Reasoning
 Definition
using logic
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incenter
 Definition
Point concurrency for angle bisectors
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Inductive reasoning
 Definition
using specific true cases
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median
 Definition
endpoints are vertex and midpoint
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midsegment
 Definition
endpoints are midpoints
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orthocenter
 Definition
point of concurrency for altitudes
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perpendicular bisector
 Definition
bisects a line and is perpendicular to the line
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point of concurrency
 Definition
3+ lines meet at one point in a triangle
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skew lines
 Definition
lines not coplanar
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triangle ridigity
 Definition
fixed triaangle cna only have one shape
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