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UNIT 10 Vocabulary for Mrs. Roebuck
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English
9th Grade
04/29/2010

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plain folk
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propaganda technique attempting to convince the public that one's veiws reflect those of the common person
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plot (5 stages)
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deliberate sequence of events or actions that presents and resolves a conflict in a literary work
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point of view
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the perspective or vantage point from which a literary work is told
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primary source
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an original source-such as a historical manuscript-that is used as a part of research
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print styles
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ways that symbols, letters, or words may be presented in text (e.g. bold, italics, etc)
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propoganda techniques
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an extreme form of persuasion intended to prejudice or incite the reader or listener to action either for or against a position
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protangonist
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main character in a literary work
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pun
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a joke that comes from a play on words. It can make use of multiple meanings or of a word's sound
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refrain
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a passage repeated at regular intervals, usually in a poem or song
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repetition
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the recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas used for emphasis
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