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| whwn another literary work or well-know story or fact is referred to--3 types |
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| reference from the bible Ex. you Judas, 2nd coming |
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| reference to mythology Ex. Pandora's Bow, "World on your soldiers" |
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| any reference to another author or some well-known tale or story Ex. We're not in Kansas any more |
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| speech patterns, values, and characteristics of certain areas |
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| Speech patterns (regionalism) |
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| Dialect (speech patterns in Regionalism) |
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| particular words/accent of used in a particular area |
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| influence of same religion, influence or background of ancestors, or no. of people in families |
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| Characteristics( Regionalism) |
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| stereotypes of peple influence thinking, veiwpoint of other influences thinking, certain foods/land characteristics that are indigenous to a particular geographic area |
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| the method that an author uses to teach the eder about the characters in a piece of writing |
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| the author directly describes the personality or other traits of a character |
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| Indirect characterization |
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| the author describes the personality of a character throughout that character's actions or speech OR uses other character's words or descriptions to teach the reader about a character |
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| character who is extremely ugly physically or internally (or both ) no redeeming qualities |
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| underlying message that an author wants the reader to see from a piece of writing |
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| there's no place like home, true love conquers all, never give up |
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| there's no place like home, true love conquers all, never give up |
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| the angle from which a story is told |
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| a character tells the story from his or her own vantage point |
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| Omniscient narrator - 3rd person POV |
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| narrator knows all --God like (all encompassing) |
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| limited omniscient narratore - 3rd person POV |
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| narratore only knows what is going on in some of the characters' minds |
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| overall felling or effect, created by a writer's use of words, feeling may be serious, humorous, or satiric(critical or mocking) |
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| literary tone that is used to make fun of human vews or foilbles |
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| when an author uses one thing to represent or explain another |
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| a great difference between purpose of an action and the actual result |
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| when an author says one thing bu means another |
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| when the audience can see a character's faults, but the character is unaware of it themself |
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| when 2 forces work against each other |
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| a character gets his "comeuppance" |
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| Purest for of poetic justice |
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| when a character sets a trap for another character another character, but ends up falling into his own trap |
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| "reading between the lines" or making educated guesses or assumptions to arrive as the meaning of a piece of writing |
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| characters which the author deliberately makes the readers sympathize with |
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| literature in which human errors or problims appear funny end on a happy note |
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| form of low comedy that ofter includes exaggerated, sometimes violent actiions |
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| literature based on a humorous and improbable plat |
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| literary work in which the hero is destroyed by some characters flaw or by forces beyond his or her control |
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| literary work in which the hero is destroyed by some characters flaw or by forces beyond his or her control |
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| the implied message, closely related to inference, usually teaches a lesson |
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| the implied message, closely related to inference, usually teaches a lesson |
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| Female, Good Country People |
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| male, Matilda, Way Up to Heaven |
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| male, Harrison Bergen (disability book) |
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| Parts of Speech Endings -ous |
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| Parts of Speech Endings -ology |
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| Parts of Speech Endings -ion |
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| Parts of Speech Endings -ible |
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| Parts of Speech Endings -ible |
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| Parts of Speech Endings -ity |
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| Parts of Speech Endings -ed |
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| starts with There: is, was, will be, won't be |
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