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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 theme | the main idea in a piece of litterature |
| imply | to suggest a theme indirectly |
| infer | to find the hidden themes that the author implies |
| perspective | a way that someone sees things (beyond the green chair) |
| point-of-view | the vantage point from which a story is told |
| subjective point-of-view | a first hand experiancer's view |
| objective point-of-view | your view (not having experianced said event first hand) |
| protagonist | the main character of a story, usually has a goal |
| antagonist | try to keep protagonist from reaching his/her goal |
| character | a creature or person in a a story |
| characteristics | traits |
| setting | where and when a story takes place |
| mood | the feeling that the author gives in his or her writing |
| tone | the way the author writes the scene (happy, sad, mysterious, ect.) |
| narrative | short story |
| plot | storyline |
| regurgitation | to say or write back almost exactly what has been said or given to you |
| foreshadowing | showing that something is going to happen beforehand |
| narrator | the person/thing telling a story through thier perspective |
| summary | 3-5 paragraphs describing exposition |
| synopsis | 3-5 sentences describing exposition |
| context | when something is said and it conveys a different meaning |
| conflict | a problem or issue in a story |
| climax | the high exciting point of the story |
| resolution | the result of all of the actions that take place in a story |
| irony | when words convey the opposite meaning |
| paradox | a staement that seems self-contradictory, yet expresses a possible truth |
| rhetoric | a comment/question not to be answered aloud, but thought about |
| autobiography | when someone writes about their own life/experiances |
| biography | when someone writes about another person's life/experiances |
| coming of age | when someone begins to take on the responsibilities of adulthood |
| loss of innocence | to have done something wrong/advanced, so you must deal with the consequences. No longer an innocent child! |
| adversity | an unfortunate circumstance or event |
| epiphany | a great and sudden realization/understanding |
| destiny | the predetermined, inevitable, irresistable course of action or events |
| prose | ordinary form of spoken or written language |
| verse | one of the lines of a poem/stanza |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse |
| iambic pentameter | unrhymed line with five accents or beats |
| monologue | a composition in which one person speaks |
| soliloquy | an utterance by a person talking to himself |
| aside | when an actor speaks directly to the audiance during a play |
| dialogue | a conversation between two or more persons |
| sonnet | 14 lines, iambic pentameter, expressing a concrete and abstract thought |
| ballad | a simple song that has two repeating refrain lines |
| quatrain | a stanza/poem of four lines with alternate rhymes (ABAB) (BCBA) (CABC) |
| haiku | a form of Japanese poetry, three lines, first line= 5 syllables, second line= 7 syllables, third line= 5 syllables, about nature, unrhymed |
| diamante | shaped like a diamond, hence name line 1: one noun, opposite of line seven line 2: two adjectives describing line one line 3: three verbs ending in 'ing' describing line one line 4: first two nouns describe line one, last two nouns describe line seven line 5: three verbs ending in 'ing' describing line seven line 6: two adjectives describing line seven line 7: one noun, opposite of line one |
| limerick | lines 1,2,and 5 rhyme, lines 3 and 4 rhyme, made of a triplet and a couplet |
| alliteration | words said together that have the same stressed sound, example: (that fat cat sat) |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like their meaning, examples: (boom, crash, honk, screech, ect.) |
| simile | a comparison of two things using 'like' or 'as' |
| metaphor | a comparison of two things not using 'like' or 'as' |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| personification | giving human characteristics to inanimate objects |
| rhyme | to be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable |
| individuality | to be yourself, unique |
| conformity | to try to be like everybody else (fit in) |
| yawp | a barbarious, thunderous, yell that releases emotion |
| carpe diem | "Sieze the day" |
| symbols | a sign or figure of some sort that referances to something else |
| thesis | the main statement of something that you are trying to prove |
| persuasive | to convince or be convincing |
| declarative | to state/make known/declare |
| affect | (NOUN) emotional change |
| effect | (VERB) to act on/produce a change in |
| abstract logic | an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object |
| concrete logic | an actual object, thing, or instance (reality) |
| choice | being able to make a decision aboout something |
| First Amendment | gives every human being the right to speak their mind freely, without consequence |
| censorship | making sure that nothing offends/disturbs the public and/or individual mind |
| an official- censor | a person who challenges/ censors questionable material |
| objectionable matter | a challenged decision or piece of material |
| challenge | to disagree with and try to put a stop to something |
| ban | to not allow access to under any circumstances |
| bias | a predetermined opinion/belief |
| prejudice | an unfavorable opinion/feeling formed beforehand without knowledge, thought, or reason |
| discrimination | to not favor a person or thing based on it's group, category, or class instead of the the individual's merit |
| diversity | being different |
| socio-economic status | $/salary, education, group of friends |
| class | examples: upper, middle, lower |
| age | years of life |
| race | examples: White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, ect. |
| gender | male or female |
| religious belief | Christianity, Islam, Judaism, ect. |
| cultural practices | national and religious rituals |
| heritage | what country people originate from |
| political views | views on government, president, and world topics |
| text-text | relation between a book and another book |
| text-self | relation between a book and a personal experiance |
| text-world | relation between a book and an event happening in the world today |
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