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Honors English 1
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Literature
9th Grade
11/09/2006

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Myths
Definition
Stories that explain events in nature
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Legends
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Stories from the past-based on real events
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Folk tales
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Stories pased by word of mouth
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Tall tales
Definition
Tales of spirits or the super-natural
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Parables
Definition
Told for moral lessons
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Fables
Definition
Stories with animal characters
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Spirituals
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Religious songs
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Epics
Definition
Longs stories of poetry
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Proverbs
Definition
Traditional sayings
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Suspension of disbelief
Definition
The reader sets aside skepticism to participate in the story
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Moral
Definition
Lesson learned from the story
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Theme
Definition
Central idea in a literary work
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Foreshadowing
Definition
presenting materials that hint at following events
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Character
Definition
Person who is the figure of action
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Motif
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Element that occurs more than once in a literary work
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Symbol
Definition
Thing that represents both itself and something else
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Personification
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Figure of speech-gives human qualities to an animal or thing
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Aim/Purpose
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Goal for writing
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Irony
Definition
Differentce between reality and apperence
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Irony-Verbal
Definition
Statement that is made to imply the opposite
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Irony-Situational
Definition
Violates the expectation of the characters
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Irony-Dramatic
Definition
Something that is know by the reader
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Crisis
Definition
The high point in the deveopment of a conflict
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Dialect
Definition
Version of language spoken in a particular place
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Repetition
Definition
Reuse of a sound, word or phrase
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Allusion
Definition
refence to a person, event, object or work in history
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