English Terms

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Autobiography

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written about that person by the person

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direct characterization

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bluntly states who they are states in the text.

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Indirect characterization

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The reader looks n between the lines to learn about the character.

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climax

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most exciting part of the story. conflict is resolved

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Complications

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Characters try to resolve conflict and meet with more complications.

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Conflict

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the struggles and problems a character faces

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dialogue

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The actual words that characters speak. Authors use dialougue skillfully in the short story to portray character and to dramatize conflict.

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Diction

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the author's choice of words vocabulary level of the story.

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exposition

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where your characters and conflict meet more complications characters are introducted.

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falling action

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after the climax of a story before the resolution when the conflicts are being resolved

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Foreshadowing

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the use of clues to hint at what will happen later in the plot.

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imagery

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use of selected details to describe one thing in terms of another. This helps suggest additional meanings and feelings

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irony

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a particular tone created when the speacker intends a meaning that is opposite to the words he or she says.

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mood

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The overall feeling created by an authors choice of words.

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Narrator

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the speaker who tells the story

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Point of view

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Perspecetive from which they story is told.

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Omniscient

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if the author is outside the story and presents thoughts of all characters involved

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limited

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when the story is told from the view point of one character who can see only a part of the whole story

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Protagonist

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The sentral character of the story

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resolution

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end of the story

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Rising action

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Characters try to resolve conflict and meet with more complications

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Satire

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Type of writing that ridicules something, person, group of people hummanity at large an aattiude of failing a social ionstitution in order to reveal a weekness

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Setting

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When and where a story takes place.

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Suprize ending

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resolves a story's conflict in a totally unexpected yet logical way sometimes tells the story's meaning.

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Suspense

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making us intrested in what lies ahead. the anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in the story

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theme

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central idea of a work of literature

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tone

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The clues in a story that suggest the writer's or narrators own attitude toward elements of his or her story.

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image

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a single word or phrase that appeals to one our senses

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catalog poem

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list of images that creates a rolling rhythm

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Haiku

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Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and 17 sykkables

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Figure of speech

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word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is nto meant to be taken literally.

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Metaphor

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Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things w/o using like or as

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Simile

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Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using like or as

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assonance

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Repeated voewl sounds

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Personification

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kind of metaphor in which a non human thing ir quality is talked about as if it were human

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Speaker

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The voice that is taking in a poem

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Tone

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attide a writer takes toward the audience a subject or character.

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Rhyme

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Reptition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem

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Rhyme scheme

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The pattern of rhymes in poem

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Onomatopoeia

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use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning

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repetition

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words phrases and intire lines that rhyme.

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Alliteration

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repetition of the same or very simmlar consonant sounds in words that are close together ina poem.

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approximate Rhyme

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words that repeat same sounds but are not echoes

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internal rhyme

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rhymes that occur inside a line

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extended immage

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is an immage developed over several lines of a poem or even throuhout an entire poem.

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External conflict

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when a person struggles with something outside themselves

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internal conflict

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a person is fighting to control some inner problem.

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Plot

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a series of related events, each event connected to the next

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scene

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the location of a poem