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a lyric poem of some length .

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Onomatopoeia

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the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning.

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Opinion

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see fact and opinion.

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Oral history

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stories of people’s lives related by word of mouth.

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Oxymoron

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a form of figurative language combining contradictory word as or ideaas.

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Paradox

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a statement that seems to contradict itself but is nevertheless, true.

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Parallelism

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the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in impirtance.

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Paraphraasing

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the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form.

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Parody

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a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author’s work for comic effect or ridicule.

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Personification

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a figure of speech where animals ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics.

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Perspective

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see point of view.

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Persuasion

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persuasive writing is ment to sway readers’ feelings, beliefs, or actions.

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Play

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see drama.

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Plot

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the sequence of related events that make up a story.

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Exposition

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introduces the characters and the conflicts they face.

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Inciting incident

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occurs after the exposition and introduces the central conflict within the story.

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Rising action

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following the introduction of the central conflict.

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Climax

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turning point.

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Falling action

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the end of the central conflict in a story when the action starts to wind down.

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Resolution or Denouement

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occurs after the climax and is where conflicts are resolved and loose ends are tied up.

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Subplot

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an additional minor plot that involves a secondary conflicts in the story.

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Poetry

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a type of liturature in which ideas and feelingsd are expressed in compact, imadinatie, and often musical language.

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Point of view

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perspective from which a story is told.

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First person point of view

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the person telling the story is one of the characters in the story.

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Second person point of view
refers to the use of you in explanations or arguments.
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Third person limited or third person objective
the person telling the story is not one of the characters in the story .
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Third person omniscient
the narrator is not a character in the story but one of the events in the story asre seen through the eyes of more than one of the characters.
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Predicting
the process if gathering information and combining it with the reader's own knowledge to guess what might occur in the story.
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Primary source
a first hand account of an event .
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Propaganda
text that uses false or misleading information to present a slanted point of view.
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Prose
the ordinary form of spoken and written language.
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Protagonist
see character.
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Questioning
the process of raising questions while reading in an effort to understand chracters and events.
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Realistic fiction
imaginative writer set in the real, modern world.
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Refrain
repetition in literature of one or more lines at regular intervals.
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Repetition
technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis.
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Resolution
see plot.
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Rhyme
repetition of an identical or similary accented sound or sounds in a work.
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End or terminal rhymes
words that rhyme at the end of a verseline.
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Soliloquy
a speech delivered ny a character who is alone on the stage.
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Sonnet
a sonnet is a distinctive poetic style that uses a system or pattern of metrical stucture and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines arranged in a set of rhyme scheme or pattern.
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Sound devices
see alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme, and rhythm.
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Speaker
the voive that talks to the reasder in a poem, as the narrator does in a work of fiction.
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Speech
a talk given in public.
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Stage directions
the instructions to the actors, director and stage crew in the script of a play.
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Eye rhymes
are words that when written appear to rhyme but when spoken do not.
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Internal rhyme
rhyme found within a line of poetry.
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Slant rhymes
is also known as near rhyme or pararhyme.
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Rhyme scheme
pattern of end rhyme used in poems generally indicated by matching lower case letters to show which lines rhyme .
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Rhythm
refers to the pattern of flow sounds created by the arrangments of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
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Rising action
see plot.
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Sarcasm
use of praise to mock someone or something.
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Satire
a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiiculed for the purpose of improving society.
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Scanning
the process of search writing for a particularfact in one place at one time.
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Scean section
in a play presenting eventsd that occur in one place at one time.
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Science fiction
prose writing in which a writer explores unexplores unexpected possibilites of the past or the futruew by using seientific data and theories as well his/her immagination
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Secondary source
a secondary spirce presents information complied from based on other sources.
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Sensory details
words or phrases that help readers see hear feel aste or snell wha author is describung.
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Sequence
the order in which events happen or order in which events are presented in the srtore.
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Setting
the time place physical details and circumstances ibn which a story occurs.
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Shorty story
breif work of fiction.
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Simile
a type of fig. language makes a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

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