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Vocab semester 2 finals
Vocal semester two finals
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7th Grade
06/04/2012

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Plot
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A series of related events that make up a story
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Setting
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The time and place in which the events of the story takes place
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Character
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A person or animal that takes part in the story
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Characterization
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How the author reveals the character In the story
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Theme
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The idea about life revealed in a story
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Antagonist
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The bad guy in a syory
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Protagonist
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Good guy in the story
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Internal conflict
Definition
Smething you feel inside.
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External conflict
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Somthing you feel outside
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Exposition
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The start of a story/play ; introduction
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Rising action
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Everything leading up to a climax of the story; build up
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Climax
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Thhighest or most intense/ interesting part in a story
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Falling action
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Where all the loose ends of a story are tied up; break down
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Resolution
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The end of a story; solved problem
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Foreshadowing
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Clues are put in to alert the reader of what might happening the plot next
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Plot diagram/ order of the plot diagram
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Exposition,rising action,climax,falling action,resolution
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Monopoly
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A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller
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Monologue
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A speech made by one individual read to a audience.
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Polygon
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A shape with many angles and straight lights that join together
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Monotone
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Only using one tone of voice
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Polygraph
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A lie detector
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Reside
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To live In a place for a long time or for permanent
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Transpose
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A matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a givin matrix
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Sedate
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To help someone become calm
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Imposition
Definition
Someone being unfair to someone else
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Sediment
Definition
Particles that are deposited on the ground
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Where you capitalize something ( only one example )
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A name, the beggining of a sentence, a state, the month
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Where you place a comma
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Placed before a conjunction after a introductory phrase/ sentence
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Where you place a colon
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Before a list ; before a explanation
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Where you place a apostrophe
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To indicate ownership
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Quest
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A long search for treasure
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Religion
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Something you believe in
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Irony
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The ue of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning
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Origin myth
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Anyhing that purports the describe the origin of some feature
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Myth
Definition
Traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world
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Cronus
Definition
Swallowed his children; got tricked by his wife to swallow a stone;leader or the first generation titans; youngest of the first generation titans
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Zeus
Definition
Father of the gods; married to Hera
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Earth
Definition
Goddess of the earth ; also god of the dead
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Cyclopes
Definition
A one eyed monster
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Hera
Definition
Queen of all gods; Married to Zeus
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Titans
Definition
The elder gods; ruled the earth before the Olympians over threw them.
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Sky
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The rain god; god of weather
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Olympus
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A mountain where most gods lived in Greece.
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Purpose of a works cited page
Definition
Givemcredit to the person that wrote it
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How works cite page is orginized
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Alphabetically
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Know about plagiarism
Definition
Where you copy someone else work and give then no credit
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A MLA cotton format for a infotech article with no author
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You just put a date
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How to punctuate direct quotes
Definition
Gice the author credit by citing the quote
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Proper manners of an audience(one example)
Definition
Clap at the end; laugh when supposed to; don't talk; pay attention to the presenter
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Proper etiquette for a presenter
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Scan over audience; have a visual aid; be interesting; be loud but not too loud;
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Visual aid requirements
Definition
Have something to Show the audience why you are talking about; everyone has to be able to see it visual aid
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Lottery rose internal conflict
Definition
He thought he was stupid; his hated for miss cressman
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Lottery rose external conflict
Definition
Got beat by Steve; got beat by his mother; got in a fight with the kid at his new school
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Theme of the lottery rose
Definition
Never give up.
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Setting of the lottery rose
Definition
Mostly school for boys; Florida; apartment
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Exposition of the lottery rose
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Disliked by teacher/ students; getting abused ; can't read
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Climax of the lottery rose
Definition
Georgie plays mad hatter in a play with miss Harper as Alice
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Rising action of the lottery rose
Definition
Georgie wins a rosebush
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Falling action of the lottery rose
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Robins death
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Resolution of the lottery rose
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Georgie plants his rosebuds on robins grave with miss harper
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Smile
Definition
A figure of speech that compares two different things
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Metaphor
Definition
Figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is on some point of comparison concepts
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Personification
Definition
The act of giving inanimate objects human characteristics
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Alliteration
Definition
Repitition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a sentence
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Rhyme
Definition
A short poem; a repetition of similar sounds in two/more words
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Internal rhyme
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A rhyme that occurs in a single ine of a verse
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End rhyme
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Rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
A word that intimitates/suggests the source of the sound it describes
Ex: boom,pop,fizz,sizzle,hiss
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Imagery
Definition
A language that appeals to the five senses
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