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The center of interest or attention
Elements of fiction.
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Elements of fiction.
Metaphors, simile.
Paragraphs and Sentences
Plot, theme, setting.
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The center of interest or attention
Concentration
Focus
Center
Attention
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An exaggeration or overstatement
Metaphor
Imagery
Personification
Hyperbole
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Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Type of Language
Clubs in school
Persuasive Techniques
Cities in New York
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The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic.
Inference
Argument / Position
Bias
Implicit
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A message about life or people
Voice
Theme
Satire
Point of View
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Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual test
Explicit
Syntax
Evaluated
Summarize
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What is prose?
Standard form of writing, sentences and paragrahps
Stanzas and lines
Members of a gang
When you are "for' something
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Information used to influence people
Propaganda
Synonym
Drama
Biography
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A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work.
Motif
Affix
Authors Purpose
Main Idea
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Name Calling, Bandwagon, Red Herring, Testimonial
Test review
Clubs in literature
Propaganda techniques
What students share
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A story using animals that have a moral to the story
Mystery
Speech
Soliloquy
Allegory
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The opposite of what you expect to happen, happens
Motif
Personification
Evalute
Irony
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Place together characters, situations, or ideas to show common and/or differing features.
Style
Draw Conclusions
Dialect
Compare / Contrast
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Comparison using "like, as, than, and resembles" is a metaphor.
False
True
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5 stressed 5 unstressed syllables in a poem
diction
meter
stanza
iambic pentameter
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An essential technique used in literature
Literary Device
Literary Form
Literary Element
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A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness
Satire
Propaganda
Solilquy
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Support provided to mark an assertion as reasonable - Defense of a Claim - True or False?
True
False
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The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits & personalities
Biography
Context Clues
Characterization
Key / Supporting details
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A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text.
Narrative
Poem
Short Story
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Word order in a sentence
Prefix
Setting
Syntax
Suffix
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Sensory Details
Hearing Aid
Words in a story
Imagery
Diction
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The conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad statement.
Main Idea
Generalization
Reasoning
Inference
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The reader/audience knows but the characters do not.
dramatic irony
situational irony
foreshadowing
prediction
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Ethos
Course in college
Appeal to credibility of a person, or character
Appeal to ones logic
Type of medication
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The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits & personalities
Point of View
Compare / Contrast
Characterization
Defense of a Claim
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An extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others or as if alone.
Multiple - Meaning Words
Monologue
Suffix
Syntax
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The feeling of the reader
Main Idea
Focus
Mood
Motif
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Specific word choices in a text that strongly support the tone, mood, or meaning of the text.
Key Words
Figurative Language
Sentence Variety
Sound Devices
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A personal view, attitude or appraisal
Inference
Opinion
Point of View
Interpret
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An implied or indirect reference in literature to person, place or event
allusion
Inquiry
Analysis
Illusion
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Pathos
A route on the train
A remediation class
Using sympathy or empathy strategies to persuade
An illness
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Process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another
Interpret
Draw Conclusion
Generalization
Analysis
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Support provided to mark an assertion as reasonable.
Defense of a Claim
Draw Conclusion
Evaluate
Dialect
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Logos
Name of a street
Used in propaganda or persuasion to appeal to your logic
News channel
The missing link
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Language based on where you live
Dialogue
Tone
Setting
Dialect
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A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true
Certainty
Factor
Fact
Element
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Conversation between two characters
monologue
dialogue
soliloquy
dialect
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Pattern of a poem such as a Sonnet: abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
stanzq
beat
rhyme scheme
rhythm
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The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
Repetition
Alliteration
Repeating
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Author's attitude using words
Flashback
Infer
Drawing a Conclusion
Tone
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3rd person ominiscient
Using pronouns I and me
Author write fron an all-knowing perspective
Setting in Avatar
Multiple meaning word
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Reasoning out the meaning of a word
Focus
Imagery
Mood
Context Clues
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A device in literature where an object represents an idea
Symbolism
Diction
Style
Allergory
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Emotion behind the meaning of a word
Denotation
Antonym
Synonym
Connotation
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Mother of Prefix and Suffix
Character
Affix
Mrs. McCann
Genre
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The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the other
Voice
Mood
Speaker
Tone
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A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content.
Propaganda
Genre
Key / Supporting Details
Literary Movement
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To make understandable, plain or clear
Interpret
Voice
Explain
Universal Significance
