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01/07/2009

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Short story
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is a brief work of fiction
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Plot
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is the sequence of events that make up a story. Plot is divided into five stages
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Exposition
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the scene is a set and background information is provided
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Rising action
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the center conflict, or struggle, id provided
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Climax
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the high point of the conflict
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Falling action
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the conflict lesions
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Resolution
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the conflict concludes and loose ends get tied up
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Direct characterization
Definition
writers directly state a character's personality traits
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Indirect characterization
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a writer uses a character's actions, thoughts, and feelings to suggest a character's traits
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Round character
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a character who exhibits many traits, including faults as well as virtues
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Flat Character
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a character who seems to have only a single surface or aspect to her personality
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First-person point of view
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the narrator is one of the characters
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Third-person point of view
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the narrator does not participate in the action
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Setting
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The time and place in which the action occurs
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Symbol
Definition
anything that stands for or represents something else
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Tone
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is the writers attitude toward his or her audience and subject
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Irony
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is the general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and results
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Theme
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Central messages about life
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Suspense
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is the reader's feeling of curiosity, uncertainty, or even anxiety about the outcome of events in a story
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Conflict
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in a story is the struggle between opposing forces
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Internal conflict
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occurs with in a character who experiences opposining ideas or feelings
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External conflict
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occurs between characters or between a character and a force or nature
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Dialect
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is the form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
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Foreshadowing
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is the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
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Interloper
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someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
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Inference
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the act of inferring
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Character
Definition
a person or an animal that takes part in the action of the literary work
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Protagonist
Definition
the main character
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Antagonist
Definition
a character who opposes the main character
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Palpable
Definition
able to be touched or felt
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Indolently
Definition
lazily; idly
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Bizarre
Definition
odd in appearance
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Naïve
Definition
unsophisticated
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Scruples
Definition
misgivings about something one fells wrong
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Blandly
Definition
in a mild and soothing way
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Grotesque
Definition
having a strange, bizarre design
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Futile
Definition
useless, hopeless
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Precipitous
Definition
steep; sheer
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Condolence
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expressions of sympathy with a grieving person's pain
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Marauders
Definition
raiders; people who take goods by force
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languor
Definition
lack of vigor; weakness; weariness
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Medley
Definition
mixture of things not usually found together
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Succor
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relief; aid; assistance
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Pungent
Definition
producing a sharp sensation of smell
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Prodigy
Definition
person who is amazingly talented or intelligent
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Benevolently
Definition
in a kind and well-meaning way
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Malodorous
Definition
having a bad smell
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Retort
Definition
sharp or clever reply
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concessions
Definition
things given or granted as privileges
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Lassoed
Definition
wrapped around
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Formality
Definition
established rules or customs
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Rakishly
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with a trim, casual look; dashingly
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Insinuatingly
Definition
suggesting indirectly
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Hurtling
Definition
moving swiftly and with great force
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Distraught
Definition
extremely troubled, confused, distracted
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Cannonading
Definition
continuous firing of artillery
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Haggard
Definition
having a worn look, as from sleeplessness
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Derisive
Definition
showing contempt or ridicule
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Insolent
Definition
boldly distrustful
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Inscrutable
Definition
baffling; mysterious
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Cloister
Definition
place devoted to religious seclusion
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Pagans
Definition
people who are not Christians, Muslins, or Jews
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Perverse
Definition
continuing in a stubborn way to do what is wrong or harmful; improper; willful
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lyric poem
Definition
expresses vivid thoughts and feelings
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narrative poem
Definition
tells a story
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dramatic poem
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uses techniques of drama, such as speaker and conflict, to tell s story
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Alliteration
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is the repletion of initial consonant sounds
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Onomatopoeia
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is the use of words that imitate sound
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Assonance
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is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two of more stressed syllables
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Consonance
Definition
correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds
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Meter
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is its rhythmic pattern
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blank verse
Definition
blank verse
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iambic pentameter
Definition
the most common rhythm in English poetry, consisting of five iambs in each line. "The quality of mercy is not strained" is an iambic pentameter
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Repetition
Definition
is the use of any element of language-a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence-more than once
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rhyme scheme
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is a regular pattern of rhyming words that appear at the ends of lines in a poem
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Simile
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is a figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between ideas that are basically dissimilar
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Metaphor
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is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
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Personification
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is q type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
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sensory details
Definition
is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
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Connotation
Definition
of a word is the set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning
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imagery
Definition
is the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reade
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Haiku
Definition
is a three line verse form
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Sonnet
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is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
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Couplet
Definition
is a pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter
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