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Literature
8th Grade
05/21/2009

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plot
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the series of related events that make up a story.
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conflict
Definition
a struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces.
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resolution
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the final part of the story where the conflict is resolved and the story is brought to a close.
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climax
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the point in a story that creates the greatest suspense or interest.
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internal conflict
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a conflict that takes place in a character's own mind.
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external conflict
Definition
a character struggles with an outside force.
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foreshadowing
Definition
the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.
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parallel episodes
Definition
repeated elements of the plot
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subplots
Definition
a minor plot that relates in some way to the main story.
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context clues
Definition
information from the text that helps identify a word or word group.
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predicting
Definition
what will happen next in the plot
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inference
Definition
the act or prccess of deriving a conclusion based solely on what one already knows.
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biography
Definition
an account of a person's life or part of it, written or told by another person.
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autobiography
Definition
a person's account of his or her own life or part of it.
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subjective writing
Definition
writing in which the feelings and opinions of the writer are revealed.
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objective writing
Definition
writing that presents facts without revealing the writer's feelings and opinion.
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fact
Definition
statements that can be proven true
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opinion
Definition
personal statement that are not necessarily true
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biased
Definition
favoring one person or side
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main idea
Definition
the message, opinion, or insight that is the focus of a piece of nonfiction writing.
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summary
Definition
a brief statement that presents the main idea of a subject
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setting
Definition
the time and place of a story, play, or narrative poem.
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tone
Definition
the attitude's of a writer toward his or her subject, characters, and audience.
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conclusion
Definition
a final thought or judgment about what one has read
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generalization
Definition
a broad statement that can apply to many situations.
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theme
Definition
the general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals.
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refrain
Definition
a repeated sound, word, phrase, line or group of lines.
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allusion
Definition
a reference to a statement, person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science.
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metaphor
Definition
an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing.
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simile
Definition
comparisons that use words such as AS, THAN, LIKE, and RESEMBLES to make comparisons.
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personification
Definition
a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
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symbols
Definition
a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well.
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verbal irony
Definition
involves a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant.
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situational irony
Definition
occurs when what happens is very different from what we expect would happen.
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dramatization irony
Definition
occurs when the audience or the reader knows something a character does not know.
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free verse
Definition
poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme
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ballad
Definition
a song or songlike poem that tells a story
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ode
Definition
a lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, on a serious subject
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epic
Definition
a long narrative poem that is written in a heightened language and tells stories of the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the value of a society.
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lyric
Definition
a poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story.
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idiom
Definition
an expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words.
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imagery
Definition
language that appeals to the senses
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onomatopoeia
Definition
the use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning.
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alliteration
Definition
the repetition of a constant sound in words that are close together
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sonnnet
Definition
a fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
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couplet
Definition
two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
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elegy
Definition
a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died.
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tall-tale
Definition
an exaggerated, far-fetched story that is obviously untrue but is told as though it should be believed.
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dialect
Definition
a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people.
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figure of speech
Definition
a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true.
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