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Public Speaking Flashcards

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Conflict

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A struggle between opposing forces

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Complications

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The problems that come up during a story as characters try to resolve the conflict

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Internal conflict

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A problem or struggle within a character ,man vs. himself

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External conflict

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A character struggle against some outside force

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Connotation

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The feeling or emotions surrounding a word

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Context clues

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A vocabulary strategy in which the reader looks at the words around an unfamiliar word to find clues to its meaning

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Dialogue

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Conversation between characters

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Fact

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A statement that can be proved

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Opinion

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A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

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Figurative

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Language that is used in writing to produce images in a readers mind and to express ideas in fresh,vivid,and imaginative ways:alliteration,hyberbole,imagery,simile,metaphor

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Flashback

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A scene or event from the past that appears in a narrative out of chronological order, to fill in information or explain something in the present

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Foreshadowing

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The use hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Imagery

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Description that appeals to the senses

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Inference

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Logical conclusion based on observation

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Irony

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The opposite of what is expected

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Main idea

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What the passage is about,the topic

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Metaphor

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Comparison of two unlike thing, not using like or as

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Simile

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Comparison of two unlined things, using like or as

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Mood

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The overall emotion created by work of literature

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words that imitate sounds

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Paragraph

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A section of a piece of writing, dealing with one topic

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feeling,thoughts, or attitude

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Plot

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A sequence of events in a story

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Point of view

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The perspective from which a story is told

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Repetition

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Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas effect and emphasis

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Rhyme

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The repetition of sounds at the ends of word

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Sensory details

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Use of sight, tastes, smells, and texture to convey meaning

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Stage directions

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playwright’s written instructions about how the actors are to move and behave in a play

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Stanza

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A group of lines in a poem

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Symbolism

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A device in literature where an object represents a idea

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Synonym

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A word that means the same has a another word

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Authors perspective

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Point of view, opinion, of the author

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Theme

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Message of statement about life in the story

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