Short Story Test Vocab

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Point of View

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who is telling the story

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3rd person limited point of view

Back 2

point of view focses on the thoughts and feelings of a single character in the story

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first person point of view

Back 3

one of the characters is talking to us, using "I'. when narrator, we can only know what that 1 character sees and hears

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omniscient point of view

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someone who tells the story who isnt a character and "know's all"

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incessantly

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constantly; continually

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disconsolate

Back 6

very unhappy

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pauper

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very poor person

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privations

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hardships; lack of te things need for a happy, healthy life

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exorbitant

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much too high in price or amount

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impose

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take advantage of

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retribution

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punishment; revenge

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endeavored

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try

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obstinate

Back 13

stubborn; persistent

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immolation

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destruction

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impunity

Back 15

freedom from punishment

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succession

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series

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precluded

Back 17

make impossible in advane

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recoiling

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move backwards, as if in horror

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connoisseurship

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expert knowladge

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unreliable narrator

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someone who is not always perceptice about what going on in a story; dilerbity not telling the whol truth

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static character

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a character who doesn't change throughout the story

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dynamic character

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a character who changes thorught the story

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situational irony

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irony involving a situation which actions have an effect that is opposite from what is expected

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verbal irony

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words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning

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dramatic irony

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something in a drama that is irony understood by audience but not by characters in the play

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imminent

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near; about to happen

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infallibility

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inability to make a mistake

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doggedness

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stubborness; persisstance

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reiterated

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repeated

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precariously

Back 30

unsteadily; insecurley

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vermillion

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bright red

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heresy

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mockery of denial

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tone

Back 33

attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject or character

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symbol

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person place thing or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well

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idiom

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expression peculiar to a particular langauge that means something different from the literal meaning of each word

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exposition

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type of writing that explains, gives info, defines or clarifies an idea

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rising action

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events leading to the climax

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climax

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moment of great emotionsal intensity ro suspense in a plot

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falling action

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events leading to resolution

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resolution

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problem resolved

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conflict

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struggle or clash betwen opposing characters or opposing forces

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setting

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time and place of a story or play

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theme

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centeral idea

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indolently

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lazily

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quarry

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shelter or hiding place

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amenity

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comforts and convinences

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palpable

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easily felt or touched

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scruples

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feelings of doubt or guilt about a suggested action

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opiate

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anything that tends to soothe or calm someone

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precariously

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unsteadily; in an unstable manner