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Allegory: a story or tale with 2 or more levels or meaning
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Atonement: act of making up for a wrongdoing or injury
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Author's Purpose: the reason the author has for writing. (Inform, persuade, express, & entertain)
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Awry: not straight
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Countenance: face
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Descriptive Nonfiction: uses details related to senses to create mental images for the reader (character sketches/scientific observations)
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Dishevelment: disorder, messiness
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Dynamic Character: develops, changes, and learns something during the course of a story-unlike a static character who remains the same
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Epiphany: a character's sudden flash of insight into a conflict or situation
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Expository Nonfiction: informs and explains (essays and research)
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External Conflict: a struggle between a character and an outside force (man vs. nature, society, man)
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Fiction: writing that tells about imaginary characters and events
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Flat Character: one dimensional showing a single trait
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Furtive: sneaky
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Implied Theme: suggested indirectly through the experiences of the characters or through the events and the setting of the work
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Indolently: lazily
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Inference: a logical assumption that you make based on details in a text
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Inscrutable: impossible to understand or interpret
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Insolent: showing a rude and arrogent lack of respect
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Internal Conflict: a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character (man vs. self)
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Languor: a lack of vigor; weakness
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Narrative Nonfiction: tells stories of real life events (autobiographies and memoirs)
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Nonfiction: writing that presents info and ideas about real people, place, events, or objects
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Palpable: able to be felt; easily perceived
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Persuasive Nonfiction: presents reason and evidence to convince the reader to act or think in a certain way (editorials/political)
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Perverse: deviating from what is considered right
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Piognant: emotionally touching
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Preciptious: steep; sheer
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Prodigious: enormous
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Profound: deep; intense
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Rancor: bitter hate
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Retribution: payback; punishment for misdeed or wrong doing
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Reverie: dreamy thought of pleasant things
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Round Character: is complex, showing many different qualities revealing faults as well as virtues
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Scruples: misgivings about something one feels is wrong
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Situational Irony: something happens in the story that contradicts the expectations of a character or a reader
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Stated Theme: expressed directly by the author
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Static Character: a character that remains the same
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Unrequited: not returned or paid
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Voice: writers "sound" or way of "speaking" on page