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English Midterm '11.
zorich 10. dantes inferno, clauses, fragments, verbals,subj verb agreement, story vocabulary and all that jazz. Not responsible for errors/typos so dont complain about them.
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English
10th Grade
01/16/2011

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A series of events that tell what happens in a story.
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Plot
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Describes when (giving the reader a time frame) or where the action of the story takes place.
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Setting
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A character with only one surface, one or 2 personality traits, easily described in one sentance
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Flat character
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A character that is complex and has many sides
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Round character
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A character that is very predicatable and has no individuality
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Stock characters
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A narrarator who is all knowing and knows everything that is going on in the story. The narrarator can see into each characters head and is outside the story's action alltogether.
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Omniscient
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This person tells the story with "I" and must participate in the story. Only knows what they (I) can hear see and know.
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First Person
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Story is told by an outside speaker who is speaking in limited POV. Only knows what a single character in the story does.
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Third Person
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Literature that warns of preeminent future that involves widespread destruction and devestation
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Apocalyptic Literature
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A story that is mixed narrative, some epic, some tradgedy, some melodrama, but w/ a happy ending
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Comedy
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A method of expressing ideas by using a parallel story or images, usually animals
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Allegory
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Describes life after death in terms of other worlds.
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Vision Literature
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A piece of writing or music that deliberately copies another work in a comical or satirical way
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Parody
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Words that modify a verb, adjective, and commonly end in ly.
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Adverb
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He, She, It, I, They, We, You
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Pronoun
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The methods a writer uses to communicate information about characters to readers.
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Characterization
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The moment whhen the action comes to its highest point of dramatic conflict.
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climax
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Any obstacle that increases the tension of the story conflict
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Complication
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The central source of tension and drama in the story. The story problem
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Conflict
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The actual words the charcaters speak
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dialogue
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The part of the story in which there is a sharp decline in dramatic tension.
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falling action
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The use of selected details to describe one thing in terms of another
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Imagery
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The perspective from which the story is told
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Point of view
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the central character of the story
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protagonist
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the conclusion of the story
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resolution
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the part of the story, including exporition, in which the tension rises.
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rising action
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how many cantos are in dantes inferno?
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30 freaking 4.
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who wrote dantes inferno?
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dante aligheiri
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who was dante's guide?
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Virgil
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what was dante's inspiration?
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Beatrice
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how many circles in the InfernO?
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this will begin with a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun and will contain both a subject and a verb. This combination of words will not form a complete sentence.
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subordinate clause (dependent clause)
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list of subordinate conjunctions
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after
although
as
because
before
even if
even though
if
in order that once
provided that
rather than
since
so that
than
that
though
unless until
when
whenever
where
whereas
wherever
whether
while
why
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First, it will contain a subject and verb. C
Next, it will begin with a relative pronoun [who, whom, whose, that, or which] or a relative adverb [when, where, or why].
Finally, it will function as an adjective, answering the questions What kind? How many? or Which one?
Cannot stand alone as a sentance
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Relative clause
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will begin with a preposition (in, under, by, etc) and end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause, the "object" of the ____.
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Prepositional phrase
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This thingy starts with ing or ed or en. The action that is occuring should relate back to the subject.
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participial phrase
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verb ending in -ing
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gerund
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a PHRASE that begins with the words ing, ed
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Participles
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A phrase that begins with to + a verb
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Infinitives
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