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| The person(s) but not the poet speaking in the poem. It reveals the attitude of the person |
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| The actual meaning of a word. |
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| The implied meaning of a word |
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| Abstract Comparison between two things or people using the words am, is, are, was, or were |
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| Abstract comparison using words like or as. |
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| A word, an object, or a person that represents a particular value outside itself. |
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| An object that takes human form |
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| A contradiction that apparently is true in some sense. |
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| A line or a sentence that refers to an event in history, in religion, or to another specific topic. |
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| A description that appeals to all of the human senses. |
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| Refers to the way the reader hears a poem when it is read. |
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| Refers to the way the reader reads through a poem. |
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| Poems such as sonnets and couplets that have a definite rhyme pattern. |
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| Poems that focus more on the meaning rather than on its pattern. |
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| The basic events throughout an entire short story. |
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| The main events that keep a short story moving. |
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| All pertinent information that helps us understand the characters' situations better. |
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| Actions that allow the characters' situations to grow throughout the story. |
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| The central or most important point where the characters' lives forever change. |
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| The point where we learn the final outcome of the main characters. |
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| The main character in a short story. |
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| The main character in a short story who opposes the protagonist. |
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| Story told by the observer |
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| The location and place of the story |
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| The type of dialect, dialogue, or vocabulary used to convey information about characters. |
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| The central meaning of the story. |
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| Arguments that can be in the forms of an evaluation or an interpretation. |
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| A point of contention in an essay that can be expressed as a fact, a theme, a definition, as a symbol, a pattern, an evaluation, as historical and cultural contexts, a genre, a type of social policy, and as a cause and an effect. |
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| Infomation from primary and secondary sources used to support a claim. |
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| Beliefs underlying your claim and support. |
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| Any knowingly or unknowingly copying or misrepresenting information from another source without giving proper credit. |
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| The Modern Language Association that is used for documenting Humanities and Language Arts Research Papers. |
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| A citation within the written text that will allow the reader to verify the source of information. |
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| A list of primary and secondary sources that is written at the end of a research paper. |
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| All original documents that have not been critiqued, paraphrased, summarized, or analyzed by another author. |
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| All written information that has reviewed, analyzed, interpreted, or evaluated the original source. |
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| A system that verifies the author's credentials, the place of publication, its personal bias or agenda, and its scholarly rigor. |
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| Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation |
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| Three writing skills that allow a writer to incorporate outside information into a paper. |
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| Draft, Revise, Edit, and Publish |
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| A writing process that requires a writer to create, make corrections, and then publish for public criticism. |
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| Accented or unaccented syllables |
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| Sonnets, limericks, blank verse, lyric |
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| Examples of different forms of poetry |
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| A short piece of writing that expresses the views of its author. |
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| A character in a story that is one dimensional. |
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| A character in a short story that is complex and developed. |
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| The perspective of the short story |
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| A narrator that knows everything that happens in a short story. |
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| Limited Omnisicent Narrator |
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| A narrator that knows information about some of the characters. |
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| Historical and Psychological Criticism |
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| A school of interpretation that uses historical context, psychology, and biography to interpret the meaning of a text. |
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| A school of interpretation that contends that meaning can be found within the text itself. |
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| A school of interpretation that contends that paradox and contradiction both provide and disable the meaning of a text. |
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| Reader Response Criticism |
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| A school of thought that states that the reader brings his or her own experiences when interpreting a text. |
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| A play on words that is meant to make the audience laugh. |
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| A narrator who plays a role in the story |
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| A narrator who knows everything that happens in the story |
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| Limited Omniscient Narrator |
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| A person who knows what some of the characters think and feel |
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| A narrator that can't be trusted |
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| A phrase that holds together words that seem to be opposites |
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| The repetition of one sound at the beginning of words |
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12 rhymed lines and one couplet ababcdcdefefgg |
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| A line in a poetry with no punctuation--often sounds like a run-on sentence |
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| The more pressure to move to the next line of a poem |
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Distinct stressed and unstressed syllables in verse |
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| Academic caliber, date, credibility, and citation determine the strength of a source |
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| an author's writing technique where he or she returns to the past in order to understand a character's background. |
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| Two characters that are similar in a story but distinct enough to identify differences. |
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| A writing technique where the writer displays a character in the future. |
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| a writing technique where the author gives us a glimpse of things to come. |
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| an epic story that begins in the middle of the action. |
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| A plot technique where the author purposely witholds information about the character until the end of the story. |
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| a message that a reader determines through his/her senses. |
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| An exaggeration of an idea in order to create a reaction in the reader. |
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| A story that stands for something else. |
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| A type of fiction performed on stage. |
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| A long speech by one character to the audience. |
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| Information addressed to other characters and/or the audience. |
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| A situation is apparent to the audience but not the character(s). |
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| A statement made that is the opposite of its intended message. |
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