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41 Cards in this Set
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what happens in a story
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plot
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where and when the events of the story take place
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setting
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takes place in a characters mind
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internal conflict
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a character sturggle s with a group of people, or a force of nature
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external conflict
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the main idea of the story
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theme
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the story of a person's life, written or told by that person
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autobiography
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one pf the characters is telling the story
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1st person point of view
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the narrator focuses on thoughts and feelings of only one character
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3rd person piont of view
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the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close togetger
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alliteration
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the use of words with sounds that echo thier sense
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onomatapoeia
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a comparison between two unlike things using like or as
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simile
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an imaginative comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
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metaphor
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a figure of speech in which a non human thing or quality is talked abot as if it were human
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personification
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a reference to a statement, person, place, or event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science
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allusion
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the use of cluse to suggest events that will happen later in the plot
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foreshadowin
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a contrast between expectaion and reality
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irony
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where the divinities lived
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Mt. Olympus
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king of the gods, sky, and weather
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Zeus
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prewriting, rough draft, revise, edit, fianl copy
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writing process
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word that transitions one sentece to the next
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transition word
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to end a story
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function of a conclusion
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to introduce a story
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function of an introduction
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startling or interesting facts,vivid detailed description, question, incidents or ancedotes, and quotations
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ways to start an introduction
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copying someone else's work
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plagiarism
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the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems
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omniscient point of view
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a sudden ending making the reader want more
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cliffhanger
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language that appeals to the senses
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imagery
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a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and isn't literally true
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figureative language
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a story that originally was passed on to generation and generation by word of mouth
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folktale
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common features of traditional folktales
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motif
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spreading out
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dispersal
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getting used to
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accustomed
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not able to do something
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incapable
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correcting angerly
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scolding
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highest point or peak
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pinnacle
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on time
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punctual
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copy
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emulate
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to put up with
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tolerate
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hurt by something
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offended
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listening in to another's conversation
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eavesdropped
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4 modes of writing
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descriptive, expository, narrative, persuasive
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