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40 Cards in this Set
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Theme |
a central idea of a work (lesson) |
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Values |
the ideas, beliefts, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live
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beliefs |
specific ideas that people hold to be true
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antagonist |
the character who works against the protagonist in the story |
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protagonist |
the main character, who must overcome obstacles and resolve the conflict |
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lyrical poem |
a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker. |
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narrative poem |
a poem that tells a story |
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free verse poem |
a poem that has no definite rhyme and structure |
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point of view |
the perspective from which a story is told |
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stanza |
a group of lines in a poem
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myth |
a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to exlain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. |
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sensory imagery |
language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. |
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third person limited point of view |
the narrator focues on the thoughts and feelings of only one character |
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third person objective point of view |
outside narrator records events without discussing character motivation or knowing what characters are thinking |
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third person omniscient point of view |
narrator knows everything in the story and reveals the thoughts of all the characters |
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textual connection |
connecting your thoughts to the text |
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root word |
main part of a word |
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affix |
a prefix or suffix |
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prefix |
an affix that added in front of the word |
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suffix |
an affix that is added at the end of the word |
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author's purpose |
the reason the author has for writing. (inform, persuade, express, and entertain) |
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textual evidence |
supporting a statement with information from text |
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rising action |
events leading up to the climax |
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conflict |
struggle between opposing forces |
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first person point of view |
the narrator is a character in the story and used words like I, me, we |
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second person point of view |
the narrator tells the story using the pronouns, "You", "Your", and "Yours" to address a reader listener directly |
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linear plot |
a plot that has a distinctive beginning, middle, and end, and is composed of five identifiable parts: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution |
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subplot |
a secondary situation and conflict less important than the main plot of the story |
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red herring |
any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue |
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factual claim |
a claim that something is true; a claim that evidence or reasons are being presented |
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logical fallacy |
way of supporting facts that are not logically sound |
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false premise |
an error in deductive reasoning that is based on a hasty generalization |
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genre |
a kind of literary or artistic work |
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assumption |
a belieft of statement taken for granted without proof |
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band wagon |
an argument saying in effect that because other people are doing something, you should do it also |
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perspective |
a way of thinking about situations or topics |
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visual technique |
develop a picture to represent each major concept |
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sound technique |
control the sound of the poem
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media |
the various methods of communicating information |
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intertextual links |
the interrelationship between texts |