First Person

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Narrated by a character speaking for and about themselves.

Ex: " I walked down the hall and into English where my teacher was."

Third Person Limited 

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Narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally.

Ex: He thought to himself "im an idiot".

Third Person Omniscient 

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Narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the  in the story.

Ex:As the man saw her start up the hill, he moved quickly into the shelter                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ge old maple tree. If she saw him now, everything would be ruined.

Additional Depth 

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Information 

Ex: "He was born in Southort 20 years ago on July 10th." 

Allegory

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Characters or events represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.

Ex-In The Wizard of Oz, in which cowardice is embodied in the lion, thoughtless panic in the scarecrow, and so on.

Alliteration 

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A series of words in a row have the same first consonant sound.

Ex-Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

Allusion

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Something that makes a reference to, or a representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication. 

Ex- In Night the woman sees fire which is an allusion for how many of the poeple were gougn t

Assonance 

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Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

Ex- Do you like blue? 

Assumption

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Guess

Ex- I assume that someone who is really tall can walk fast. 

Autobiogrophay 

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The self written acount of the life of a person.

Ex- Benjamin Franklin has an Autobiography. 

Biography 

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A detailed description or account of a persons life written by someone else. 

Ex-There will be a biography wrote on me because I will be important in some way.

Centeral Idea 

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Main idea, theme, the whole point of the piece of work.\

Ex-The centeral idea of The Big Fish was truth.

Character Trait

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Personality, underlying values, aspects of a persons behavior. 

Ex- My brother has the character trait of meaness. 

Cliche

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An overused and obvious remark.

Ex- Dont judge a book by its cover.

Climax

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The most important part of the story, the point, the summit.

Ex- The climax of Night is when Ellies father dies. 

Conflict

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Incompatibility between the objectives or to or more characters or foreces.

Ex-Ellie Wiesel has an internal conflict when he thinks to himself that he wants his father not to be a burden.

Connotation

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An idea or feeling.

Ex- The words childish and childlike implies that someone is immature, but youthful infers that someone is lively and energetic.

Consonance

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Repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession.

Ex- All the mammals named sam are clammy. 

Convey

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Delivers menaing and idea.

Ex-The author of night conveys the theme through different events.

Cultural Background

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Belief, understandings, and rituals. 

Ex- The people in Night have much different cultural backgrounds than the people in Persepolis.

Denotation

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Literal meaning of a word.

Ex- The denotation of the word perfect is: having all the required or desirable elements.

Diction

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Speakers distinctive vocabulary choices or tone and style of expression. 

Ex- "Hi how are you?" "Good"

Characterization 

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The art of creating characters by giving information about the character. 

Ex-In Persepolis Marjane characterized her grandmother very well.

Dynamic Character 

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A person who undergors dramatic change in outlook or character.

Ex- In Things Fall Apart Okonkwos son is a dynamic character.

End Rhyme

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Rhyming of the terminal syllabuls of a verse

Ex- Star Light

Star Bright 

Exact Rhyme 

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Later part of the word or phrase is identical. 

Ex- Bat, cat, rat 

External Conflict 

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A struggle outside of the charcter 

Ex- In Persepolis Marjane has an external conflict with her teacher. 

Fiction 

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Stories that are fabricated or made up. 

Ex- The Twighlight series are fiction. 

Non- Fiction 

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Writings based on facts.

Persepolis is non-fiction.

Poetry

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Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

Ex-  Every song is a piece of poetry.

Drama

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A play for theater, radio, or televison. 

Ex- Cyrando De Bergiac is a Drama. 

Figurative Language 

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When you describe something by comparing it to something else.

Ex- Metaphor. You are what you eat. 

Flat Character 

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The character in a piece of writing that doesnt change.

Ex- The character Okonkwo is a flat character, he doesnt change his religion. 

Hyperbole

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Exagerated statements not ment to be taken literally. 

Ex- I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

Imagery 

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Visually descreptive figurative language.

Ex- He fumed and charged like a bull.

Implication

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An indirect indication.

Ex- Throughtout Things Fall Apart it is implied that Oknokwo is concerend what other people think of him. 

Indirect

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Not straight foward.

Ex- In The Kite Runner the way Hassan feels for Amir is shown inderectly. 

Inferred 

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To conclude from evidence.

Ex- I can infer when my mom is mad at me by the tone of voice she talks to me in.

The main charcter has a problem inside them. 

Ex- In Cyrano De Bergiac Cyrano has an internal cocnflict because he is in love with Roxane.

Introverted 

 Inward-looking or parochial.

Ex- My brother is very introverted, he keeps to himnself. 

Irony 

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The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. 

Ex- Its ironic that the biggest jerk at school gave the speech at the ceramony about character. 

Memoir 

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Ex- Night is a  memoir

Mood

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The feeling that is portrayed in a writing. 

Ex- The mood of Night is very depressing and sad.

Novel 

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A narrative, book length 

Ex- The Kite Runner is a novel.

Objective Summary 

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An effective way to preview information.

Ex- An objective summary is the Prolouge. 

Onomatopoeia 

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Word used to make sound effects.

Ex- VROOOM!

Perception 

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The way you see things. 

Ex- Author of Night trys to alter our perception of the Halocaust. 

Personifactaion 

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Giving humans unhuman charcteristics. 

Ex- Sayinng I run like a cheetah. 

Phrashing

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To shorten soomething.

Ex- A summary is paraphrashing the whole book.

Plot

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Order of events in a story.

Ex- Part of the plot in Night was that Elies dad died right before the people came and lieberated them. 

Purpose

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Authors reason for the piece of writing.

Ex- Ellie Wiesel prpose of Night was to inform people about the Holocaust. 

Reveal 

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To show

Ex- In The Kite Runner it was revealed that Hassan was Baba's son.

Rhetorical Question 

A question not ment to be answered. 

Ex- Why is it so hot outside? 

Rhyme Scheme

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The way the different rhymes are ordered. 

Ex- An ABAB pattern is a rhyme scheme. 

Rising Action 

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The evernts that occur that lead to the Climax.

Ex- The Rising Action in Cyrano De Bergiac is the things like the war. 

Round Character

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THe main character 

Ex- The main character of Persepolis is Marjane. 

Sensory Details

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Details that describe what is heard, seen,smelt, seen, tasted, and touched. 

Ex- The pickel was big smelly and juicy. 

Setting

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Place and surroundings

Ex- The seeting of Perseoplis was Iran.

Significance

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The importance

Ex- The significnat of the letters in Cyrano De Bergiac was that they represented Cyranos insecurities. 

Similie 

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Comparison using like or as. 

Ex- Cute as a kitten.

Slant Rhyme 

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Rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical

Ex- Years, yours

Stanza

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Paragraph of a poem 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, (line 1)
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Style 

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Reveals the authors voice.

Ex- Marjane s styke was portratayed well becuase  of her cartoons.

Symbolism 

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A normal object or idea has an extra symbolic meaning 

Ex- In Night the suitcases symbolized their allusions.

Theme

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The overall point of the piece of literature.. 

The theme of Big Fish was truth 

Tone

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Understament 

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SOmething presented as less important than it actually is. 

Saying the Haloacaust was sad is an understatment. 

Evidence

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Proof

Ex- Qoutes from readings that prove our thesis.