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

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Nonfiction
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factual writing that presents or exaplins ideas about real people or events
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nonprint sources
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not in written form like television, radio, films...
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onomatopoeia
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words used to imitate sounds ex. crush, buzz
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omniscient point of veiw
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third person narrator who is an all knowing speaker who reads thoughts and feelings of all characters
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oxymoron
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figure of speech that places two contradictory words together for special effect (ex. jumbo shrimp)
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paradox
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contradictory statement that has an element of truth (ex. one must be cruel to be kind)
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parallelism/parallel structure
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series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical structure
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parody
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literary work written for comic effect or ridicule
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personification
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figurative device in which animals, objects, or abstractions are given human characteristics
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plagerism
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the use of someone else's ideas as if they were your own
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