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10th Grade
09/03/2011

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Allegory
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A Narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning, because of the events' actions, characters, settings, and objects, which represent specific abstractions or ideas
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Antagonist
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A character, force, or collection of forces in a fiction or dama ht opppsses the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story.
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Conflict
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The strugle within the plot between opposing forces.
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Connotation
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Associations and implocations that go beyond the literal meaning of a word.
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Crisis
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A turning point in the action of a story that has a powerful meaning or effect on the protagonist.
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Dialect
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A type of informal diction. Dialecs are spoken by definable groups of people from a pirticular geographic region. economic group, or social classes.
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Diction
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A writers choice of words, phrases, sentences, structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning. (Word Choice)
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Character
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Is a person presente in a dramatic or narrative work.
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Dialogue
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The varbel exchanges between characters.
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Dramatic Irony
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Is a figure of Speech that occurs when a person says onething, but means the opposite.
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Dynamic Character
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A chacter which under goes some kind of changes, because of the action in the plot.
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Exposition
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A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work, that provides necessary background information about their circumstances.
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Epiphany
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In fiction, when a character suddnly experinces a deep realization about their self.
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Foil
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A chacter in a work whose behavior and values contrast with those of another characer in an orderly highlight to the distinctive temoerature of that character.
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Fisrt Person Narrator
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The "I" in the story presents the point of view of only one character.
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Foreshadowning
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The introduction early in a story of verabal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later.
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Genre
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A french word meaning kind or type.
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Hero
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Is often called a protagonist, is the central character who engages the readers interest and empathy.
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Image/ Imagery
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A word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smeels, tastes, feeling, or actions.
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Informal Diction
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Represents the plain language of everyday use, and often includes idomatic expresions, slang, contractions, and many simple common words.
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Irony
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A literary device that uses contradictory statement or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
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Language
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N/A
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Limited Omniscence
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The narrator knows a lot but not everything.
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Metaphor
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Is a figure of speech that make a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as.
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Middle Diction
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Maintains correct language usage, but is less elevated than formal diction.
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Narrator
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The voice of the person telling the story, not to be confused with the voic of the author.
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Omniscent Narrator
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Is an all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the stroy and who can move from place to place and pass back and fourth through time, slippong into or out of characters a no human can't do in real life.
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Onomato Poeia
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A term referring to the use of a word that resembles to the sound it donates.
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Oxymoron
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A condesec form of paradon in which two contradictory words are used together.
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Paradox
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A statement that initally appears to be contradictory, but then on closer inspection, turns, out to ake sense.
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Personification
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A form of metaophor in which human characters are atributed to nonhuman things.
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Plot
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An aithors selction and arrangement of incidents in a soryy to shaope the action and give the stroy a pirticular focus.
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Point of View
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Refers to who tells us a story and how it is told. What we know and how we feel about the events in a work are shaped by the authors choice.
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Protagonist
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The main character of a narrative; it's the central character who enages the readers intrest and empathy.
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Resolution
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The conclusion of a plots conflicts anf the complications.
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Rising Action
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In which complication creates some sort of conflict for the protagonist.
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Round Character
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The character is a full formed person that we can see, is personality of who he really is.
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Romanticism
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N/A
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Setting
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The ohysical and ocial context in which he action of the story occurs.
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Simile
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A common figure of speech that makes an explict comparison beween teo things by using words such as like, as, than, appears, and seems.
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Situational Irony
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Is when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to force beyond human comprehension or control.
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Static Character
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The character doesn't change no mater what happens around him.
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Style
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The distinctive and unique manner in which a writer arrangers words to achive particular effects.
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Sub-Plot
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The secondary action of a story, complete and interesting in its own righ, that reinforces or contrasts with the mainplot.
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Symbol
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A peron, object, image, word, or event, that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstracted than it's literal significance.
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Syntax
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The order of words into meaning ful verbal patterns such as phrases, clsuses, and sentences.
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Theme
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The central meaning on dominant idea in a liteary work.
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Thesis
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The central ideas of an essay.
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Tone
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The authirs implicit attiude toward the reader or the people,places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the authors style.
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Verable Irony
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Is a figure of speech that ocurs when a person says onething , but means the opposite.
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