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11th Grade
11/19/2013

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Narrative

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a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
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narration

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the action or process of narrating a story.
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Narrarator

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a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.
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Objective (Language Tone)

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created by the writer’s wording so that the piece of writing seems to be unbiased and unemotional.  The antonym of objective is subjective which means personal experience and opinions are expressed.
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Objective POV

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1. The narrator assumes the position of an observer, detached from the narrative.


2.  the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue. The narrator never discloses anything about what the characters think or feel, remaining a detached observer.

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Octave

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a group or stanza of eight lines; an octet.
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Ode

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a lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre.
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omniscient point of view

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means that the reader is all seeing and all knowing.
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onomatopoeia 

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the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
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