Vocabulary

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Alliteration

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REPETITION OF THE SAME OR VERY SIMILAR CONSONANT SOUNDS usually at the begininning of words that are close in a poem

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Allusion

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REFERENCE to a statement, a person, a place, or event from literature, history, myths, politics, science, or pop culture

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Analogy

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COMPARISON made between two things to show how they are alike

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Autobiography

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE WRITER'S OWN LIFE

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Biography

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AN ACCOUNT OF A PERSON'S LIFE, WRITTEN OR TOLD BY ANOTHER PERSON

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Character

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person in a story, poem, or play

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Characterization

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the process of revealing a character's personality in a story

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Chronology

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List of things in real time order

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Alliteration

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REPETITION OF THE SAME OR VERY SIMILAR CONSONANT SOUNDS usually at the begininning of words that are close in a poem

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Climax

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moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot

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Connotation

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all the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words in addition to literal meanings

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denotation

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a word's strict dictionary definition

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Dialogue

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the conversation between charcters in a stiry or play: set apart using quotation marks

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Diction

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a writer's or speaker's choice of words

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Direct Characterization

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When the writer tells us exactly what the character is like

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Dramatic Irony

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When we know what is in store for a character, but the character does not know

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Exposition

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Introduction to a story

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Fiction

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Writing that isn't true or factual

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First-person Narrator

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Speaking directly to the reader (I, me, my)

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Flashback

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Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time

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Flash-forward

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Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to shift into the future

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Foreshadowing

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The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot

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Genre

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The category that a work of literature is classified under (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, myth)

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Historical context

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Actual events which serve as a setting for a story

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Inciting incident

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Event that starts the conflict; sets action into motion.

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Internal conflict

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Struggle a character has in his or her mind

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Irony

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Contrast between expectations and reality

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Literary criticism

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Analyzing literature for deeper meanings

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Mood

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A story's atmosphere or the feelings it evokes

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Narrator

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The voice telling a story

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Objective

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Being unbiased; not promoting an opinion, just giving facts

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Omniscient Narrator

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All-knowing; has access to character's thoughts

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Parody

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Imitating someone or something to poke fun at them

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Persuasion

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Making othersbeleive your point by supporting an argument

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Plot

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Series of related events that make up a story or drama

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Point of View

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vantage point from which a writer tells a story(omniscient, first person, third person)

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Prose

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ordinary writing---not poetry or drama

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Protagonist

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main character in fiction or drama

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Resolution

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final part in a story where conflict is concluded

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Round Character

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a character with many different raits, which sometmes contradict eachother---plays major role

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Satire

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typer of writing that ridicules something in order to show flaws and/or bring about change

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Setting

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the time and place of a story or play

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Short Story

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short, concentrated, fictional prose narrative

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Situational Irony

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occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens

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Static Character

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a character who does not change much in the course of the story

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Theme

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central idea of a work of literature

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Title

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the name of a story, play, poem, or novel

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Tone

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

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Verbal Irony

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when someone SAYS one thing but MEANS the opposite

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Voice

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the writer's or speaker's distinctive use of language in a text