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situational irony |
contrast between what you expect to happen to what actually happens
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asiana crash
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dramatic irony
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contrast between what the audience knows and characters know
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the movie: alien
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verbal irony
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contrast between what you say and what you mean
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shut the door
vs. I'm so glad you shut the door |
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exposition
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introduces character and setting |
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rising actions
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the conflict and complication
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climax |
the turning point in the story |
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falling action |
the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has beenreached and the conflict has been resolved. |
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resolution
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ending |
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interloper
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people who intrude or meddle in other peoples business or lives
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disputed
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contested; argued about
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acquiesce
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agreed quietly without protest or enthusiasm
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condolences
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expressions of sympathy with another in grief
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feud
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a long and violent quarrel, especially between clans or families, often categorized by killing
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precipitous
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steep; sheer
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character
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the people or whoever is part of the story
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protagonist
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main character; one you're attached to
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internal conflict
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fights you have with self in head
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external conflict |
fights with an outside force; other characters or with nature |
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point of view |
the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by thenarrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by theattitude toward the characters. |
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setting |
where story takes place; place and time |
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mood |
how reader is supposed to feel when reading |
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imagery |
description of sensory experience; includes any five senses |
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diction |
authors word choice to achieve a particular tone or mood |
obese vs. fluffy |
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theme |
a message or lesson about life that the author wants the reader to learn from the story- usually(must be) several words long |
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tone |
authors opinion about topic |
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denotation |
dictionary definition of a word |
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connotation |
the emotional sense of a word |
dinner-neutral vs. feast-positive vs. slop-negative |
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greek mythology |
Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece. |
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monotheism |
believing in one god |
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polytheism |
believing in multiple gods |
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Zeus |
the supreme deity of the ancient Greeks, a son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon, the god of the heavens attributes: lighting rod/bolt, eagle |
one of three most powerful gods |
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poseidon |
the ancient Greek god of the sea, with the power to cause earthquakes attributes: trident, fish, chariot |
one of three most powerful gods |
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hades |
the god ruling the underworld; underworld inhabited with departures souls attributes: cerberus, cap of invisibility
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jerk one of the most powerful gods |
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demeter |
the ancient Greek chthonian goddess of agriculture and the protectorof marriage and the social order; goddess of harvest attributes: cornucopia, grain |
created seasons |
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hera |
the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rheaand the wife and sister of Zeus; goddess of protecting marriages attributes: peacock, cow, pomegrantes |
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ares |
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera; god of war(gory and bloody) atributes: bronze armor, chariot with two horses |
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athena |
the goddess of wisdom, justice, fertility, the useful arts, and prudent warfare. At her birth she sprang forth fully armed from the head of her father, Zeus. attribute: owl, aegis, helmet |
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apollo |
the ancient Greek god of light, healing,truth, music, and manly beauty; the son of Leto and brother of Artemis. attributes: lyre, sun, bow |
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artemis |
an ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the forest, hills, and the night. attributes: bow and arrow, moon, hunting deer and dogs |
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hephaestus |
the ancient Greek god of fire, metalworking, technology, and handicrafts attributes: hammer, anvil, tongs |
famous for being ugly |
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aphrodite |
the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, and desire attributes: a mirror, the half-shell, god of love(cupid) |
many lovers and children |
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hermes |
the ancient Greek herald and messenger of the gods and the god ofroads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft. attributes: winged shoes |
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asclepius |
a son of Apollo and the ancient Greek god of medicine and healing, doctor attributes: rod of asclepius |
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hestia |
the ancient Greek goddess of the hearth attributes: fire, hearth |
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dionysus |
the god of fertility, ecstacy, and ritual madness attributes: wine, grapes, parties, snake |
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plundered |
took goods by force; looted |
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dispatched |
finished quickly |
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assuage |
calm; pacify |
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bereft |
deprived |
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ardor |
passion; enthusiasm |
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insidious |
characterized by craftiness and betrayal |
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contempt |
the act of despising |
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shirk |
to go stealthily |
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impudent |
obsolete; lacking modesty |
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entreat |
to plead with especially in order to persuade |
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whim |
a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind |
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medium |
a particular form of communication such as newspapers or radio; materials or methods used by an artist such as paints, copper, or film |
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commitment device |
an object the helps or stops you from doing something. |
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myth |
the beliefs of a culture on how the world came to be and why it is the way it is |
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attribute |
objects that are associated with a person |
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realm |
where a person is and where he/she lives |
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epic (noun) |
a long story telling all or many of the adventures of a cultures hero |
the odyssey |
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epic hero |
the hero of the epic |
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hubris |
the act of being stupid |
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epic simile |
a long simile |
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verse |
like a poem with rhythm or rhyme |
song |
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prose |
regular writing without rhythm or rhyme |
poem |
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epithet |
a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or replacing a characters name |
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cultural values |
what your culture believes is important |
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archetype |
the original of which all iterations are a copy or example |
sidekicks |
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hero cycle |
a pattern found in the stories of cultures all over the world |
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thesis |
the most important sentence in the essay |
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concrete detail |
sentence presenting evidence from the text that supports the claim in the topic sentence transition, lead in, quotation, citation |
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commentary |
explanation of how the evidence supports the claim |
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chunk |
one concrete detail and two commentaries |
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figurative |
the metaphorical and not literal meaning of a word |
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personification |
the attribution of human nature or character to inanimate objects |
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