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Communications Vocabulary
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Communication
12th Grade
05/21/2012

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Refrain
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To hold ones self back as to refrain from comment 
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Repitition
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The act of doing or saying something  more than once
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research
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A careful study or investigation in an effort to find new information
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Resolution
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Fixed determination purpose or firmness of purpose.
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Rhetorical question
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The art of correct and forceful language
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Rhyme
Definition
The identity in sound of the final sounds or syllables of two or more words
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Rhyme Scheme 
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A careful arranged and systematic plan that rhyms.
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Rhythym
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In prose and poetry the harmonious rise and fall of the sounds of language produced by patterns repeated.
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Rising action
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The events proceeding the climax
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Round Character
Definition
They have many traits to who they are.
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sarcasm
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A bitter cutting remark expressing scorn or contempt
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Satire
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A poem essay story exposing and ridiculing evil.
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Sestet
Definition
The last 6 lines of a sonnet
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Setting
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The scenory and stage of properties, the backround of a play.
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Simile
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A figure of speech in which 2 different things having some likenesses are compared by the use of like or as
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Slang
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Words not permicible informal or written language.
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Soliloquy
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The act of talking to ones self. ike a long speech in a play
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Sonnet
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A poem usually of 14 lines
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Speaker
Definition
To address a group of people
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Stanza
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A group of lines or verses.
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Stream of consciousness
Definition
Never ending thoughts that come to you when a persons awake.
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statiscal Evidence
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Evidence that is proven that is based on numbers
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Static Character
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An unchanging character
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Stereotype
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You see one person looking a certain way, then you automatically assume that everyone is going to look like that.
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Stock Character
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A character that has specific straits
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Story within a story
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You tell ones story but it has a lesson or morals to be taught.
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A story within a story
Definition
A story that has a meaning as well as morals behind it for another story
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Style
Definition
A characteristic manner of writing or speaking, manner of conduct or action, fasion
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Stylistic Tecnique
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The genre, comic book style, victorian style, grammer use a defining method method an author uses and changes to become his own.
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Style
Definition

Manner of conduct or acting -Characteristic manner of writing or speaking.

-Fashion

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Stylistic Technique
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The genre, comic book style, victorian style

Grammer use

-a defining method an author uses.

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Subjective
Definition

not produced by outside objects

-exhisting in the mind

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Surprise ending
Definition
An ending that is not expected by the reader
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Suspense
Definition
A state of uncertainty, doubt or anxiety
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Symbol
Definition

Soemthing that stands for or represents something else

-an Emblem

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Symbolism
Definition
To represent by means of a symbol.
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