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Unit 8
Vocabulary for Mrs. Roebuck
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English
9th Grade
04/28/2010

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metaphor
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device of figurative language that compares two unlike objects saying that one is the other
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meter
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regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
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monologue
Definition
speaker addresses a silent or absent listener, as if engaged in a provate converstation
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mood
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feeling that an author wants readers to have while reading
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motive
Definition
the emotion or desire that acts as an incitement to action (causes you to do something)
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multiple-meaning words
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words that have acquired additional meanings overtime that are based on the original meaning- (ex: made my skin creep/saw him creep around the corner)
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myth
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traditional tale about gods, goddesses and heros
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name calling
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propoganda technique consisting of attaching negative labels to a person or thing
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narrative poetry
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tells a story or recounts events
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narrator
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character or voice that relates the stroy's events to the reader
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