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05/01/2011

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personification
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giving a nonhuman object human qualities
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fact
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something known to have existed or to have happened or a truth known by actual expirence or observation
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opinion
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a belief of judgement that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty (not a fact)
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topic sentence
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the first sentence in a body paragraph
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concrete details
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specific details that form the backbone or core of your body paragraphs
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commentary
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your opinion about something
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setting
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the time and place of the action of the story
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protagonist
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the principal character in a story (main character)
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antagonist
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one that contends with or opposes protagonist
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archetype
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the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based (prototype)
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narrative
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a collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing
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plot
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a plot in a story is quite simply the things that happen in it
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subplot
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secondary storylines that are seprate from the main plot but happen within the same story EX. in All the Years of Her Life-Alfred's sister getting married
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1st person point of view
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narrarator is a character in the story
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third person limited point of view
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narrator is not a character in the story and only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
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third person omniscient
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narrator is not a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters
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direct characterization
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when an author tells instead of shows, when an author makes direct statements about a characters personality and tells readers what a character is like
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indirect characterization
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the writer reveals info about a character and his/her personality through that characters thoughts, words, and actions along with how other characters respond to that character
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cause
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an event that makes something else happen
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cause
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an event that makes something else happen
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cause
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an event that makes something else happen
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effect
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the result of the cause
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personal pronoun
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pronoun that takes the place of the noun and refers to people or things
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antecedent
Definition
the noun that the pronoun refers to or replaces
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reflexive pronouns
Definition
pronouns formed by adding -self or -selves to a pronoun
EX. myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, etc.
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intensive pronouns
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pronouns that are used to emphasize the preceding noun or pronoun EX. I MYSELF have read many stories.
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audience
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the particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing
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motive
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something (as a need or desire) that causes a character to do what they do EX. Rachel works really hard in school and studies for everything because she wants to get into Harvard
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author's purpose
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the author's reason for writing a story/piece of literature EX. to entertain, to inform, to persuade
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verb phrase
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two or more verbs that work together in a unit EX. may go, can try, could help
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theme
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the broad idea, moral, or message, of a piece of literture
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foreshadowing
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the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature
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allusion
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a reference within a piece of literature to another work of fiction
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figurative language
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language used to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet's sense impressions by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning familiar to the reader
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extended metaphor
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a metaphor which is drawn out beyond the usual word or phrase to extend throughout a stanza or an entire poem
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Imagery
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the elements in a literary work used to evoke mental images
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stanza
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a division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units seperated by a space
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stanza forms
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the names given to describe the number of lines in a stanzaic unit
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rhyme scheme
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the pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem
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couplet
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a pair of lines of poetry that are rhymed
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triplet
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composed of 3 lines in a poem that rhyme and each line usually has the same number of syllables
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alliteration
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the repitition of the first consonant sound of stressed syllables in neighboring words
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assonance
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the relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds
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consonance
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the close repitition of the same end constants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds
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iamb
Definition
disyllabic foot, unstressed/stressed
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trochee
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disyllabic foot, stressed/unstressed
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dactyl
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trisyllabic foot, stressed/unstressed/unstressed
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anapest
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trisyllabic foot, unstressed/unstressed/stressed
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utopia
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any real or imaginary society considered to be perfect or ideal
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dystopia
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a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowing
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ethos
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(rhetoric) the moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion
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pathos
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(rhetoric) the quality or power in an actual life expirence or in literature of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion
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logos
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(rhetoric) reason or the rational principle expressed in words or things, argument, or justification
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motif
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a reoccuring object in a work of literature EX. in the Giver-the sled
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