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9th Grade
06/01/2011

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Point of View
Definition
The perspective from which the story is told. There are four types.
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1st person Point of View
Definition
The story is told by a character in the story. Clue words are I, me, and my from the narrator.
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3rd person Objective Point of View
Definition
The story is told by an outside narrator, who only knows characters' words and actions. (No thoughts).
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3rd person Limited Point of View
Definition
The story is told by an outside narrator who knows the thoughts of only 1-2 charcters.
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3rd person Omniscient Point of View
Definition
The story is told by an outside narrator who knows the thoughts/feelings of all characters. (God-like)
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Setting
Definition
The time, place, culture, and mood of a story.
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Time
Definition
Time of day, date, month, year, and decade when a story takes place.
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Mood
Definition
The overall feeling the reader gets in the setting of a book, based on clues from the author.
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Character
Definition
The people or animals beings in a story.
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Protagonist
Definition
The main/central character
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Antagonist
Definition
The character that brings conflict to the protagonist.
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Dynamic Character
Definition
A character that changes, learns, and grows. 
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Static Character
Definition
A character that goes through no major change in the story.
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Noun
Definition
A person place or idea/thing.
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Adjective
Definition
Describes a noun.
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Verb
Definition
What you do.
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Adverb
Definition
Describes a verb, often end in-ly, but not always.
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Denotation
Definition
The dictionary definition of a word-its basic meaning.
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Connotation
Definition
The feeling we associate with words.
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Apostrophe
Definition
Punctuation used in contractions and possessives.
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Comma
Definition
Punctuation used when separating items in a list and following a dependent clause to separate it from an independent clasue.
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Irony
Definition
When the opposite of what you expect happens-a surprise or "twisting" ending.
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Simile
Definition
Comparing two unlike things "like or as."
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Hyperbole
Definition
Over-exaggeration for effect. Exaggerating time, distance, size, and amount.
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Metaphor
Definition
Comparing two unlike things without using like, or as. Saying something is something else. 
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Personification
Definition
Giving an inanimate object human characterists.
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Allusion
Definition
A reference to a famous person, place, event, idea, book, movie, or song.
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