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EOC terms and definitions

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Allegory

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A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden message
Ex:In the movie Avatar, Pandora woods is a lot like the Amazon rainforest

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Alliteration

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Occurance of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word
EX: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

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Allusion

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An expression used to bring something to mind without stating it directly
Ex:In the poem, The City of Walls by Edgar Allan Poe, the phrase “up Babylon - like walls” is considered to be an allusion as it refers to the doomed city of death.

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

Ex:The repeated sound of ‘e’s in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ‘the bells’ - ‘Hear the mellow wedding bells’

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Autobiography

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Story about the authors life or something he/she went through
Ex:The dairy of a young girl- By: Anne frank

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Biography

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Story about a real persons life but not writen by that person
Ex:The Gift of Valor- By:Michael M. Phillips

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Characterization

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Describing qualities or peculiarities about a character in a story
Ex:Jane was a beautiful young girl. She had golden hair and blue eyes, which made her stand out from the rest.

When Jane walked in the room, nobody could help but look at her stunning, gorgeous face. She commanded attention wherever she went due to her good looks.

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Character trait

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A trait that can be easily explained

Ex:Aggressive, Alert, Ambitious, Amiable, Angry, Animated, Annoyed , Anxious

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Cliche

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Over used remark or statement

Ex: Dont judge a book by its cover

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Climax

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The turning point of the story normaly this is where the confict is introduced
Ex:When the whale makes it first appearance in the story Moby dick

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Conflict

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The main driver of the story. It can be internal or external. Normally a proplem the protaganist has to face
Ex:Man against man

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Consonance

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The recurance of similiar sounds in the consanants of words
Ex:And all is seared with trade; bleared smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil

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Diction

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Choice and use of word
Ex:A frosty winter night - my love,
 Chill wind whispers sweet adoration.
 Binds my body with the finest wool,
 The darkest of sweet sensations."
 John Anderson, Night, My Lover
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Direct

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Stating something in plain text

Ex:Jane was a beautiful young girl. She had golden hair and blue eyes, which made her stand out from the rest.

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Dynamic character

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A character that changes through out the novel or story

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End rhyme

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A rhyme that occures at the end of a verse or line
Ex:You’re the top! You’re the Colosseum,
You’re the top! You’re the Louvre Museum,
You’re a melody from a symphony by Strauss,
You’re a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet…

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Exact rhyme

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Perfect rhyme

Ex: cat-bat

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External

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A conflict or problem between two characters
Ex:When Jane walked in the room, nobody could help but look at her stunning, gorgeous face. She commanded attention wherever she went due to her good looks

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Fiction

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Not real or make believe.

Ex:The Warriors Series By: Erin Hunter

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Flat character

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A character in a story that we dont know much about.

Ex:We dont know much about Benvolio in Shakespears Playwrite Romeo and Juliet

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Hyperbole

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A over the top exageration

Ex:You snore louder then a freight train

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Imagery

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the use of words to help form a image in the readers head

Ex:The crimson liquid spilled from the neck of the white dove, staining and matting its pure, white feathers

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Implication

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A conclusion that can be drawn from something

Ex:He condemned the court and, by implication, the entire legal system.

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Indirect

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Not stating something directly using words to work around it so the reader must use context cluses
Ex:When Jane walked in the room, nobody could help but look at her stunning, gorgeous face. She commanded attention wherever she went due to her good looks

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Internal

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Inside normally seen and a internal conflict

Ex:depression, love, ect

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Introverted

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Shyness

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Irony

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Knowing something the character doesnt, or something unexcpected or the exact opposite of what you think happens
Ex:Person of intrest

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Level of formality

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How formal the story is.

Ex:Text compared to a buisness letter

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Memoir

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Historical account writen from personal knowladge

Ex:our memoirs

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Mood

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Overall feeling of the story

Ex: sad happy mad

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Nonfiction

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A true story set in a real time and with real people

Ex:text books

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Novel

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Fictitious narrative book

Ex:Moby dick

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like their meaning

Ex: boom splash

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Perseption

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How the reader sees the story.

Ex:what i think of a character

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Personification

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The act of giving a inanamet object human traits.

Ex:Time has this annoying habit of creeping up on you.

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Person VS person

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A conflict between two people

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Physical Characteristic

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A characteristic then can be seen and felt

Ex: nose mouth eyes

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Plot

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Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

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Purpose

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The reason the author wrote a story

Ex: persuade, intertain, inform, ect

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Rising action

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Part of the storys plot leads up to climax

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Sensory details

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Literary devise used to engage reader

Ex:The sword gleamed red like blood.

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Simile

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The comparision of two things using like or as

Ex:As sharp as a flute

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Slant rhyme

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Imperfect rhyme, words that almost sound the same

Ex: dark-heart

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Static character

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A character that stays the same throughout a novel

Ex:Cinderellas step mother- mean in the begining and mean in the end

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Style

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How something is done by a specific person

Ex:handwriting, fighting…

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Symbolism

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Using symbols to represent something else

Ex:Black is used to represent death or evil

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Syntax

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The arrangment of words or phrases to create a well-formed sentence
Ex:yoda-much to learn, you still have

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Theme

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A topic in a story

Ex:The best things in life are free, Drama

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Tone

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The way the story is told

Ex:happy sad mad

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Understatement

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Showing something smaller then it really is

Ex:”It’s just a flesh wound.” (The Black Knight, after having both arms cut off, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

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1st person

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The narrator is in the story

Ex:i, me

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3rd person limited

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The narrator is not part story and only emlpys little detail about the characters

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3rd person omniscient

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The narrator is not part of the story but knows everything about the characters

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