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02/05/2014

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Historical Fiction
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A made up story based on a real event in history
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Documentary Fiction
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A made up story that uses documentaries to help tell the story
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Science Fiction
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A made up story that has elements of science and fantasy in it
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Folklore, Folktale, and Fairytale
Definition
A made up story that is passed down from generation to generation to tell a message
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Realistic Fiction
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A made up story that seems to be true
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Fantasy
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A made up story that has many unreal and magical features
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Mystery
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A story with puzzle or challenge that the detective usually solve
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Major Character
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A character who is involved in the important actions
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Minor Character
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A character who only appears once in the book or is in the major character's shadow
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Round Character
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A character that changes and has many feeling during the story
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Flat Character
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A character that never changes
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1st Person Narration
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Tell's the story and is the character in the story (past tense)
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2nd Person Narration
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"You" is used to tell the story (present tense)
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3rd Person Narration
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The story is told by someone, usually not identified by name
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Metaphor
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The comparison of two unlike things to suggest which they have in common
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Simile
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A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
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Personification
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The description of an inanimate object as if it were a human being or an animal
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Hyperbole
Definition
An obvious and unrealistic exaggeration
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
Use of a word which sounds like it means (boom, plunk, and zip)
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Pun
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A word that has many meanings, all of which apply
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Oxymoron
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A phrase which contains opposite elements or words with opposite meanings, yet which expresses one idea
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Setting
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Time (date, time of day, season) and place
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Plot
Definition
What happens, concretely, as though it were placed on a history time line
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Incident
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One specific thing which happens in the plot
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Theme
Definition
What it is all about
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Mood or Atmosphere or Tone
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The overall feeling created by a piece of writing
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Dialogue
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A discusion or conversation between two or more characters
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Monologue
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One character alone talking to the reader/ audience/ to himself
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Interior or Internal Monologue
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A character thinking to himself
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Character Traits
Definition
What type of person is this?
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Motive
Definition
Why a character does what he/she does
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External Conflict
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A fight, argument, disagreement or a simply opposition in which two sides are present
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Internal Conflict
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An argument or decision-making process within one characters mind
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Coincidence
Definition
Something that happens by chance
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Concrete Meaning
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In a poem or story, what literally happens
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Abstract Meaning
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In a poem or story, what the lines or sentences represent
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Literal Meaning
Definition
What something would mean in real life
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Figurative Meaning
Definition
What it is representing
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Stanza
Definition
A group lines in a poem
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Rhyme
Definition
The repetition of sound
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Rhythm
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Is the beat or pattern of stressed and unstressed lines
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Alliteration
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The repetition of sounds within a line of poetry
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Couplet
Definition
Two lines of poetry which are self contained unit
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