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Shakespeare Sight Reading a Paragraph Writting
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English
9th Grade
01/23/2008

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Characterization
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The Authors attempts to reveal the personality traits of characters in such a way as to make them beleivable for the reader. 
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Conflict
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The struggle of two opposing forces, either within a single character or between a character and a single force
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Climax
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The moment of highest action or interest for the reader
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Forshadowing
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The process of giving the reader or audience hints about the up coming events. 
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Expositions
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Establishes the setttings, characters, and centra conflicts of the narrative
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Fiction
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A peice of imagitave writting whose source is the authors's mind
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Hyperbole
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Exageration intended to heighten an effect. 
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Comic Releif
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Provides the audience with a moment of releif from a serious scene or shows harp contrast between two events
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Dramatic Irony
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The audience knows more than the characters
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Sarcasm or Irony
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When the meaning intended is the opposite of that expresed. 
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Inciting Incident
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The event that "get the story going" and causes all other events in the story to occur. 
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Mood/ Atmosphhere
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the emotional tone of Literary work
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Charaterization
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The Sum total of a person traits or qualites
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Diction
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The author's word choice
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Falling Action
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The Falling action of the plot that occurs after the climax. 
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Genre
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A group of literary workds that ar esimilar in form, style content or purpose. 
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Metaphor
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A comparion of two object or ides not using the word like or as. 
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Paradox
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A statement that seems to or actualy does contradict itself. 
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Plot
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The events and actions of dramatic or literary work
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Narrative
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A story, either in prose or verse
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Setting
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The physical place, the historical time and social circumstances in which the story takes place. 
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Theme
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A central Idea that runs through the text
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Narrarator
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The person from whos point of veiw, the story is told.
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Pun
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A play on words that are either identicle or similar in sound but generally diffrent in meaning. 

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Rising Action
Definition
Series of events in the plot, after the inciting incident, that lead to the climax
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Personification
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Describing inanimate objects as though they had human qualities. 
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3rd Person
Definition
The Characters in the story are referred to as he she or they. 
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Point of View
Definition
The perspective from which the story is told. 
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Resolution
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The problems created by the inciting incident and rising action are solved and the stage is set for denouement. 
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Suspense
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Alack of certainty in the reader or the audienc eas to what is going to happen. 

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Sybolism
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A person place object or idea in literary work that represents something larger in meaning  then itself. 
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Simile
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A comparison between two things that makes use of like or as
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Main Character
Definition
The Central character in a work, upon whom the reader's attention centers. 
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1.        Alliteration
Definition
  1. The repetition of initial sounds in words. 
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1.        Allusion
Definition
A reference to a famous person, place or thing
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1.        Apostrophe
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  1. A short account of a true event in an author life. 
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1.        Direct Address
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  1. When a character/ person addresses an object or ides as if it were a living being. 
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1.        Dramatic Irony
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