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English Midterm Review
McDonald
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English
9th Grade
01/15/2009

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Allegory
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a narritive which has both a literal menaing and a representative
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Alliteration
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repitition of constinant sounds
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Allusion
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Antagonist
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a person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work
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characterization
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making a character have a personality. The act of creating and developing a character
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Dialect
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the way somebody talks
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Dramatic Irony
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Dynamic Character
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a character that does not develop
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external conflict
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the oppisition between two characters, groups
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foreshadow
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when something that is going to happen in the future in hinted out with clues
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Genre
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fantasy, fiction,etc.
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration
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Imagery
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when something is explained in such detail that it can be imagened in your mind
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internal conflict
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a mental emotion,  or physchological struggle with a character
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metaphor
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comparision woth out using like or as
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mood
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what the reader feels

the authors attitude 

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motif
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reccuring element that keeps coming back
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onomatopoeia
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written sound
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personification
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giving nonhuman things personalitys
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plot
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the place where the story unfolds and what happens
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protagonists
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hero or central character of a literary work
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setting
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where the story takes place
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simile
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a comparision using like or as
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symbol
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an object used to represent something that has deeper meaning
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theme
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a reecuring pattern through out the story
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tone
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the way the author wants the story to feel
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