Unit 3 Sb Vocab Notes

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Prediction

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A logical guess or assumption about something that has not yet happened.

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Inference

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A logical guess or conclusion based on observation, prior experience, or textual evidence.

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Subordinate

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Means under or below in rank . EX: A subordinate at work is someone below your level. A private is subordinate to a captain.

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Perspective

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Refers to point of view, describing one’s opinion or outlook about a topic.

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Interpret

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To explain the meaning of something. An interpretation is an explanitory meaning.

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Bibliography

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A list of sources used in research

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Annotations

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Notes

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Annotated Bibliography

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A bibliography and annotations/notes with a summary or evaluation of each source used to research a topic.

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Imagery

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Descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures. Its is created by details that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses.

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Motif

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A recurring element , image, or idea that has symbolic significance in a work of literature. A novel with the title Tangerine might ues of this image many time and in different ways

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Setting

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Is the time and place in which a narrative occurs. Details of setting often create atmosphere, the feeling created by a literary work or passage. Atmosphere contributes to the mood , the overall emotional quality of a work, which is created by the author’s language and tone and the subject matter.

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Flashback

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A sudden and vivid memory of an event in the past. It is also an interruption in the sequence of events in the plot of a story to relate events that occurred in the past.

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Foreshadowing

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Is the use of dues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot.

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Hyperbole

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Is an exaggeration used for emphasis Ex. The bus ride took forever.

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Idiom

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Words or phrases that cannot be taken literally. Ex. He liked the bucket, the test was a piece of cake, break a leg, raining cats and dogs.

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Personification

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Is giving a human characteristics to nonhuman thing. Ex. The wind whispered through the trees.

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Simile

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Is a comparison using the word like or as.

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Onomatopoeia

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Is the use of of a word that sounds like the thing. Ex. Buzz, snap, crackel, pop.

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Metaphor

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Is a comparison of 2 unlike things without using “like” or “as”. It says 1 thing IS another. Ex Mom was as hard as a rock through the hard times.

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Alliteration

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Is the repeating of beginning sounds. Ex She sells seashells by the seashore.

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Tone

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Attitude in the writing.

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Theme

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The moral, lesson learned, message, and the central idea.

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Point of View

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The perspective of which a story is told.

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1st Person

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The teller is a character in the story, telling what he/she saw.

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3rd Person

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The narrator is someone outside the story.

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Conflict

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A struggle.

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Allusion

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A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event that is real or fictional.

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Biography

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An account of a person’s life written by someone else.

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Autobiography

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An account of a person’s life written by that person.