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| Writing intended to inform and explain a process such as a problem/solution, comparision/contrast, how-to,and cause/effect |
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| Visual guide used to plot the structure of a given reading selection (resembles the sign of a heart monitor) |
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| The portion of a reading selection that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation |
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| The point in a reading selection when the central conflict is introduced |
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| All events leading up to the climax of a reading selection |
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| The point in a reading selection when the conflict is resolved |
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| The tying up of loose ends...when a story continues after the resolution |
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| A struggle between opposing forces...there are five types |
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*Man vs. Self
*Man vs. Man
*Man vs. Society
*Man vs. Nature
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| When a character struggles against outside forces |
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| When a character struggles against troubles within himself or herself |
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| Clues within a literary selection that suggest events that have not yet occured but should be expected |
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| The act of creating and developing a character |
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| When the author directly states a character's traits (i.e., blue eyes, insolent temper) |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| When the author shows the character's personality through his or her actions, thoughts, feelings, workds, appearance, or the observations of another character's reaction (i.e., his locker was a wreck...papers flying from it as the doors opened with no place to go = he was messy and disorganized) |
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| The character that readers would like to see suceed |
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| The character that urges other characters to do something other than what they would have intended...opposes the protagonist |
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| A character that only demonstrates a single trait...boring |
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| A charcter that shows many traits...faults as well as virtues |
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| A character that develops and grows during the course of a story |
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| a character that does not show any sign of change from the beginning of a story to the end |
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| The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject |
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| The perspective from which a story is told...there are three types |
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| The narrator is actually a participant in the story |
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| The narrator tells only the thoughts and feelings of one character |
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| The narrator tells what he or she observes...they are outside of the action |
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| 3rd Person Omniscient POV |
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| The narrator is all-knowing and can tell not only what is happening but what the characters are thinking and feeling |
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| The speaker or character who tells a story |
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| The literary element that keeps the reader on the edge of his or her seat...makes them want to read more |
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| A work of literature...especially a drama...that results in a catastrophe for the main character |
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| Writing that attempts to convice others to accept a position on an issue of concern for the writer |
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| Language or writing that uses sensory details to capture a subject's attention...creates word pictures |
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| Writing intended to tell a story |
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| The sequence of events as they unfold in a given selection...the 1-2-3 order of events |
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| Prose writing that tells about imaginary chacters, places, and/or events |
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| Prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, and/or events |
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| One of the three major genres of literature that occurs in two forms: fiction and nonfiction...any writing other than Poetry and Drama |
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| One of the three majory generes of literature...makes use of concise, musical, and emotionally charged language as well as imagery, figurative language, and musical devices |
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| A story written to be performed on the stage by actors...requirest he use of a script |
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| A story with two or more levels of meaning...literal and symbolic |
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| A regular patern of rhyming words in a poem |
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| A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person |
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| A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells his or her own life story |
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| A long work of fiction with more than one subplot and several themes |
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| A long narrative or narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes |
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| Basically ten syllables per line of poetry (2 beats per five feet...rhythm of the heart |
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| The repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
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| When and where...time and place of a given reading selection |
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| The repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants |
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| A long, empassioned speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on the stage |
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| A short speech deliverd by an actor which expresses that character's thoughts directly to the audience |
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| Words that imitate or evoke a sound |
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| An statement that is obvious of a lesser degree than the circumstance being referenced |
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| A figure of speech in which "like" or "as" are used to make a comparison between two unlike ideas |
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| A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
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| A figure of speech in which nonhuman subjects are given human characteristics |
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| Teh use of any element of language...sounds, words, phrases, clauses, and/or sentences...for emphasis |
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| Descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures by way of the senses (i.e., sight, sound, touch, teaste, smell) |
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| Langauge not meant to be taken literally |
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| Any element that appeals to the sense of hearing |
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| When something other than what is expected occurs...there are three types |
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*Verbal
*Situational
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| When words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant |
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| When an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the character |
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| When the reader knows something that the characters do not |
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| The set of ideas associated with a sord that is in addition to that word's explicit meaning...impacted by our personal expereinces |
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| The dictionary definition of a given word |
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| The lesson intended to be learned by the reader in a given reading selection |
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| A shorter speech delivered to otehr actors by one character |
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| When one things represents another (i.e., eagle = freedom) |
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| A play that has a happy ending for its main characters |
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| Formal division of lines in a poem |
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| Larger division of a play |
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| Smaller divisions of a play that make up Acts |
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