8Th Grade La Midterm

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Reasons why books have been banned or challenged

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Sexual content, homophobic, smoking, drugs, bad language, satanism, magic, violence.

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Who bans/challenges books?

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Parents, teachers, libraries, students, etc.

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Books that have been banned or challenged

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Banned books: Harry Potter, Dear God, it’s me Margret, Looking for Alaska. Challenged: hunger games, captain underpants

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* Who sponsors banned book week and why?

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* The ALA (The American Library Association.) They want to raise awareness that books are being banned and they do not agree with that.

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* First Amendment

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* Freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of peacefully assembling and freedom of petitioning the government.

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* What is persuasive writing?

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* Using pathos, logos, and/or ethos, to persuade someone to agree with your side of an argument.

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* Define Pathos, ethos, and logos

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Pathos: Emotion

Logos: Logic/facts

Ethos: Character

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What is "The Raven," about?

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A raven coming to his door and saying "nevermore," meaning that he will not see his lost love lenore ever again. Lenore is Virginia and he knew he wouldn't see her again because he would be going to hell and Virginia, to heaven.

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What is "Annabel Lee," about?

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Angels being so jealous of the love between Poe and Annabel Lee (Virginia) that they killed her. Poe laid by her grave in the end.

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What is "The Tell-Tale Heart," about?

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A mad man that kills an old man he lives with because he doesn't like his creepy eye. The police officers hear the mans scream and the man covers everything up. he is talking with the officers and hears his own heart, but thinks its the dead old man. He thinks that the olice offers hear the mans heart beating. He lifted up the floor boards and revealed the dead man.

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What is "The Bells," about?

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Stanzas that describe different feelings that different bells give off. Wedding, christmas, warning bells.

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What is "A Dream within A Dream," about?

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Poe being desperate and miserable because everyone keeps dying of disease and he can't save them and that time runs out.

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Credo

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A set of beliefs

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Censor

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To examine a book, movie, song, video, etc. and take out parts that people find inappropiate.

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Censorship

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The practice of taking out parts that are "unnaceptable," in books, movies, songs, videos, etc.

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First ammendment

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An amendment in the US that allows people to have the freedom of expression.

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Zealots

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someone who is passionate about their religion or political idea.

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Pathos

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To persuade someone with emotion

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Ethos

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To persuade someone with character

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Logos

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To persuade someone with logic/ facts

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Thesis Statement

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The last sentence of your introdution that explains what your essay will be about

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Grabber

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a sentence that pulls your reader in

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Claims

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To state that something happened without having hard evidence that it occured.

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Evidence

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Information or facts that prove that osdmething is true

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Concession

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something that is granted

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Rebuttal

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An attempt to contradict an argment by giving a counter argument

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Independent Clause

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A group of words that can stand by themselves

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Dependant Clause

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A group of words that are incomplete

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Work's cited

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A way to give credit

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Parenthetical DOcumentation

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where a source is given in parenthesis

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Plagarism

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taking credit for someone elses work

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vexed

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annoyed or frusterated

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sagacity

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being wise or havign good judgement

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supposition

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an uncertain belief

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scantling

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a small amount of something

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waned

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to become weak

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Rhyme scheme

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an ordered pair of rhymes at the end of the verses in a poem.

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onamanopia

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words used to describe a sound

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alliteration

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a sequence of words that start with the same letter

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Point of view

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the perspective of how a story is told

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characterization

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the process in which the author tells the personality of a character

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symbolism

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giving an object human qualities

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irony

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reverse of what is expected

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theme

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the message that the author is trying to convey

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Conflict

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an issue that is going on

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Vignette

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a brief evocative description, account, or episode.

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Anecdote

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a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

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The Great Depression

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a long and severe recession in an economy or market.

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Truman Capote

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american author, screenwriter, and playwriter, wrote breakfast at tiffanys

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prejudice

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opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

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Bias

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prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

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Stereotyping

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something conforming to a fixed or general pattern