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literary terms
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7th Grade
05/24/2010

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act
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a major selection of a play
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anecdote
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a short, entertaining story
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antagonist
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a force working against the main charachter in a story
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character
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a person, animal, or imaginary creature that takes part in the action
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static character
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charachters who change little, if at all throughout the story
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dynamic character
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character who changes significantly
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character traits
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all the techniques that writers use to create and develope charachters
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charachterization
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all the techniques that writers use to create and develope characters
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chronological order
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an order in which events happen
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drama
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a form of literature ment for an audience
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essay
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a short work of nonfiction that deals with a single subject
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genre
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a catagory of literature
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inference
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to take all the information you know to make a conclusion
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mood
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a feeling conveyed to readers
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motivation
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a character's reason for behaving a certian way
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novel
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a work of fiction that is longer and more complex than a short story
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protagonist
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a main character
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verbal irony
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a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite or different than what is mant
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situationaly irony
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a situation in which the outcome turns out to be very different from what is expected
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irony
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a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens and exists
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expository essay
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instructions, directions, or explanations that tell one how to do something
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persuasive essay
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written to convey information
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hyperbole
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an exageration
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idiom
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an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of it's individual words
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