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23 Cards in this Set
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prediction |
A logical guess about something that has not yet happened |
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Inference |
A logical guess or conclusion based on observation, prior experience, or textual evidence |
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Subordinate |
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 |
Refers to a point of view, describing one’s opinion or out look about a topic |
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interpret |
to explain the meaning of something an interpretation is an explanation of meaning |
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Bibliography |
a list of sources used in research |
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Annotations |
notes
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Annotated bibliography |
a bibliography and notes with a summary of each of the sources |
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imagery |
Descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures. It is created by details that appeal to one or more of the senses |
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Motif |
A recurring element, image, or idea that has a symbolic significance in a work of literature. A novel with the title Tangerine might make use of this image many times and in different ways |
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Setting |
Is the time and place in which a narrative occurs. Details of setting often creates the atmosphere, the feeling created by a literary work or passage. Atmosphere contributes to the mood, the overall emotional quality of work which is created by an author's language and tone and the subject matter. |
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Flashback |
A sudden 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 |
Is the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot. |
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Hyperbole |
Is an exaggeration that is used for emphasis Ex: The bus ride took for ever. |
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Idiom |
Words or phrases that cannot be taken literally Ex: He kicked the bucket |
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Personification |
Is giving human characteristics to nonhuman things |
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Simile |
Is a comparison using like or as |
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Onomatopoeia |
Is the use of a word that sounds like its definition |
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Metaphor |
Is a comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as It says one thing is a another |
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Alliteration |
Is the repeating of begging sounds Ex: |
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Tone |
the attitude in the writing |
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Theme |
the moral/lesson/message/central idea. |
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point of view |
the perspective of which a story is told |
