Vocab Quiz 9/29 Flashcards

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Novel

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A book-length narrative that is fiction

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Narrator

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a person who tells a story or gives an account of something

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Perspective/Point of view

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the vantage point from which one is looking or telling a story

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Characterization

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a description of distinctive features of someone or something
the author’s creation of a character

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connotation

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something suggested
implication

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denotation

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literal meaning of a word

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dialogue

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a conversation between 2 or more people

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epigraph

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a motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition, setting a scene

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mood

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the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

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tone

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an expression of a writer’s attitude towards a subject

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prose

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ordinary speech or writing as distinguished from verse(poetry)

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