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--“an invalid brother”
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--about to happen |
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--showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles |
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--not able to fall, have faults, etc.
--never make a mistake
-- People have infallibility |
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-- not able to make out or to see or to bee seen
-- not easily noticed
i.e. --the gradual slope of the hillside was imperceptible because it was such a slow incline. |
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--not able to tell the difference
--Hints: always comparing two things difference and distinguishable
i.e.-- the two identical desks were indistinguishable; they were exactly alike. |
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--tending toward improvement
--to build up
i.e.-- I will help you improve your writing by giving you constructive criticism. |
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--adjective
--describing destruction of an object into very tiny pieces
i.e.-- the dynamite obliterated a Barbie Doll (verb-BAD)
i.e.--The obliterated Barbie Doll was the result of firecrackers, and the pieces were scattered around the lawn (adjective -- GOOD) |
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--adjective
--shy
--synonym:bashful
--The girl suddenly became abashed when she had to speak in front of her class; her face turned bright red from embarrassment. |
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--adjective
--sad; must always have anger with it; angrily pouting
i.e. -- The man was sullen because his wife was murdered; he spent a lot of time sulking about the situation because he loved her and wanted revenge. |
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--noun
--the back and forth communication between two parties (usually is in letter form) (texting) ongoing |
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--the anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen; future event will viewed be unpleasantly
--Ex. The apprehension that Sally feels before she has to preform in front of a crowd is severe enough that it causes her to be sick due to nervousness. |
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--noun
--a small fault or weakness in a person’s character (has/have a f... because) (shows, possessive pronoun)
--Ex. One of my foibles is that I try to get too many things done before I go to church; we are late very often because I am trying to finish my morning jobs. |
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--verb (transitive verb- must have direct object)
--to give (something) as if by striking usually a negative term
--ask yourself who/what was verbed?
--people can’t be inflicted with something: wrong |
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--adjective (noun must follow)
--ir = not
--cannot be restrained or controlled (persons, ideas, or personalities, actions, giggles, coughing, etc.)
--something is put down (pressing wrinkles)
--(uncontrollable, bubbling up)
--When she was in eight grade, Katelin found her giggles irrepressible; she couldn’t restrain her laughter. |
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--adjective (predicate adjective -most often- preceded by a linking verb - is was, etc.)
--inclined toward or tending to.
--prone---happens to a lot
-- susceptible has to modify the subject of a sentence
-- i.e. I suffered from pneumonia several times before I was five years old; my respiratory system is now very weak, and I am very susceptible to pneumonia. |
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--adjective
-- dimi--small (demi)
--small in size and stature
--i.e. The diminutive sapling swayed so much in the wind that its tiny trunk snapped in two. |
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--we will use it as a noun
--no noun suffix there.
--a business pursuit (profitable involvement)
--used in a positive sentence
--i.e. Roger’s latest enterprise is a car wash that he is building near a busy intersection that he hopes to be earning a tidy profit from in the near future. |
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--adjective
--unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint
--often used with relationships with minorities
--can be used with weather conditions.
--anything that makes you want to be less active/productive because you feel miserable = oppressive. |
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--intransitive verb --
--to intrude on (a person’s territory or a thing considered to be a right)
(sneakily -- to steal upon someone in order to take another’s possessions)
--intransitive verb -- has NO D.O
--ALWAYS has to be followed by a Phrep. Phr.
--Ex. Katie encroached upon Katie C.’s table space by gradually putting more and more of her books where Katie C. was trying to work. |
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--noun
--the action of distributing or supplying something
--dealing or doling out
--the giving out of something
--people cannot be dispensed
--The dispensation of the school lunches took too long because passing out the trays took to long. |
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--adjective
--very old or old fashioned
--belonging to a former time period, no longer in use.
--Think of Noah’s ark (arc)l archaeology
--People are not archaic
--Tools, implements, languages can be archaic.
--The archaic tribes of the desert Southwest lived in adobe huts. |
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--adjective
--modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence.
--lacking confidence - timid and shy
--talking about confidence and NOT self-esteem.
--tentative = good synonym
--When she meets strangers, Chelsey feels quite diffident because she is very shy. |
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--adjective
--cleared of accusations
--not a legal term -- do not use with court cases
--justice has been done when someone is vindicated
--Matt was vindicated when Jason told everyone the truth about the lies that Tanner had been spreading. |
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--noun
--an expression of sympathy, especially on occasion of a death - with a person in pain, sorrow or misfortune.
--I want to give Ashley my condolences after her mother got mixed up in the cement truck because I feel really bad. |
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--verb transitive -- Needs a DO
--circu - means to go around something
--to avoid by (or as by) going
--suggestion: write about football.
--To circumvent the delays due to construction on Highway 83, I take the interstate to school. |
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--adjective
--(of a disease or poison) extremely severe or harmful in its effects (like obnoxious --powerfully spreading) -- extremely harmful or noxious.
--could be a smell or gas; but usually negative like a bacteria or weeds.
--weeds can be noxious; animals can’t be virulent
--reminder:virus
--always a negative meaning.
--filled with hate (attitudes) (feelings)
--Kevin cut down the virulent bull thistles that were taking over the pasture. |
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--disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury -- gruesome and horrifying; having to do with death.
--Many macabre situations existed at the Halloween haunted house; the many horrifying and gruesome scenes scared me to death. |
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--noun
--a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb.
--having to do with death (pallbearer)
--The funeral director lays the beautiful pall over the coffin; the cloth was white and intricately embroidered. |
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--adjective
--like a flirtatious woman
--men should not be coquettish
--Ashley was being coquettish when she flirted with Zac E. |
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--noun
--a thing that lasts forever or for an indefinite period, in particular
--a preposition must come before this word.
--Never write an article (a, an, the) before this word
--The wait for our food at the restaurant stretched on into perpetuity; it seemed as if our food would never come.
--The soul will exist in perpetuity; it will continue living forever after the body is dead. |
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--adjective
--pale, typically because of poor health
--Remeber: pall and death
--After having the flu for six days, Randi’s pallid visage (face) made me think of a ghost; she had a deathly white color. |
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--noun
--a very poor person
--a penniless person |
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--not allowing fluid to pass through -- incapable of being injured or impaired or entered
--almost being immune
--has a “shield” around; unaffected
--can be used for people or fluid or things or places
--The wall on the outside of the basement almost made it impervious; no water could seep through the wall. |
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--transitive verb -- needs a DO
--prevent (someone) from accomplishing something -- stopped or held back - hindered
--My mother thwarted all of my attempts to be cool when I was growing up; she worked to make sure that I was a nerd. |
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--sounded with a hissing effect -- whisper
--cats hiss
--must have a noun after it
--The sibilant sound that the cats made as they hissed frightened the dog |
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--diffusing throughout, passing or spreading through every part
--gasses, feelings, emotions all can pervade
--needs to be float in the air
--water and people do NOT PERVADE
--The pervading fog began to make the valley air really thick.
--The pervading feeling of grief swept across the nation; everyone mourned the death of the President |
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--impossible to disentangle or separate
--unable to be removed; something is caught and can't be removed
--needs to be out of a confinement(can't be an open space)
--stuck in a narrow space
--car from a ditch -- okay
-- Until yesterday, the miners in Chile were inextricable; no one could remove them from the mine. |
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--the belittling or devaluing of a person
--self-deprecation
--is not the same as depreciation (which is usually $ -- Cars) |
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--sickly yellow color
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--lacking flavor
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| --very conservative -- as for spending money//very tight with money |
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-- completely saturated
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--very dominating or commanding
--adjective |
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--tending to act without thinking, at the moment
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-- very very poor -- extremely poor
-- adjective |
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--unable to be disturbed; can't be bothered
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--unable to be disturbed; can't be bothered
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--going against something sacred
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when another literary work or well-known story of fact is referred to
--3 main kinds
--Allusions may also come from oral story telling: "The Three Little Pigs" |
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references from the Bible
i.e. Adam, 2nd coming, you Judas, Jezebel |
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any reference to gods/goddesses/myths
i.e. Pandora's Box, she's a real siren, "would on your shoulders," "Adonis," Narcissus |
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any reference to another author or some well-known tale or story.
i.e. "something is rotten in Denmark," "we aren't in Kansas anymore," "may the force be with you" |
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| When an author includes: speech patterns, values, and characteristics that are indigenous (home-related) to a particular geographic area. |
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| Speech Patterns (Regionalism) |
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--dialect - particular words used
--certain words used in a certain area
--"het" (to heat), pop vs soda, coke vs any pop, warsh vs wash, aunt vs ant, eh, you betcha, crick vs creek. |
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Values (strongly hold on to and pass on to families)
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--influence of same religion
--most people are the same religion
--influence of background of ancestors
--number of people in families |
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| Characteristics of a Region (Regionalism) |
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--stereotypes of people influence thinking
--viewpoint of others influence thinking
--certain foods/land characteristics
----norwegians eat fish and potato pancakes
----irish potatoes and stew. |
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-the underlying message that an author wants the reader to see from a piece of writing
i.e. "the moral of the story is.." |
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| -the angle from which a story is told |
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| First Person POV "limited" |
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- a character tells the story from his or her own vantage point
----first person uses pronouns such as "I," "me," "we," etc.
----conversational tone in 1st person |
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| Omniscient narrator - third-person POV |
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| --narrator knows all--God like (all encompassing) |
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| Limited Omniscient Narrator - Third Person POV |
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| but narrator only knows what is going on in some of the characters' minds |
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| the method that an author uses to teach the reader about the characters in a piece of writing |
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| the method that an author uses to teach the reader about the characters in a piece of writing |
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| the author directly describes the personality or other traits of a character |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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--the author describes the personality of a character through that character's actions of speech
--uses other characters' words or descriptions to teach the reader about a character |
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- a character
- who is extremely ugly
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- no redeeming qualities |
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- the overall feeling or effect
- created by a writer's use of words
- feeling may be serious, humorous, or satiric, melodramatic, tongue-in-cheek(facetious), sarcastic(say the truth but in a near-disrespectful way -- funny at expense of someone else) |
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- when an author uses one thing to represent or explain another; can also foreshadow (give clues abut what will be happening) an event
--i.e. Mrs. Hopewell's name was a piece of symbolism because it showed that she was an optimist
--i.e. much movie symbolism
--red sunrise means that something bad will happen |
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--a great difference between the purpose of an action and the actual result
--also when the unexpected and the unexplainable happens
-i.e swimmer in bath tub dies by drowning
-i.e. wanting to kill someone and instead the person gets killed
-i.e. stunt driver being injured in a bumper car accident
-i.e. preaching against an action and then later practicing that same action and then dying from it. |
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--when an author says one thing but means another (closely related to sarcasm)
-i.e. when a person jumped in front of a moving train, it was the smartest thing that they had ever done. |
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--when the audience can see a character's fault(s), but the character is unaware of them himself
--something is wrong but character doesn't know it.
--everyone else can see it
-i.e. Joy/Hulga
-i.e. Kramer in Seinfeld. |
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| --when two forces work against each other |
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| --a character gets his "comeuppance"--getting what is deserved. |
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| --when a character sets a trap for another character but ends up falling into his own trap. |
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--"reading between the lines" or making educated guesses or assumptions to arrive at the meaning of a piece of writing.
-i.e. "The S.I." Inference -- Doodle died. |
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--character which the author deliberately makes the reader sympathize with.
--The readers "feel sorry" for the character
-i.e. the fox from Th Fox and the Hound; Cinderella; The Last Song; Click; Matilda
--Doodle born as caul baby and couldn't experience good life. |
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--character which the author deliberately makes the reader sympathize with.
--The readers "feel sorry" for the character
-i.e. the fox from Th Fox and the Hound; Cinderella; The Last Song; Click; Matilda
--Doodle born as caul baby and couldn't experience good life. |
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| --literature in which human errors or problems appear funny. Comedies end on a happy note. |
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| --form of low comedy that often includes exaggerated, sometimes violent action. The "pie in the face" routine is a classic piece of slapstick. |
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| --literature based on a humorous and improbable plot |
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| --literary work in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw or by forces beyond his or her control. |
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--the statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing.
--in most cases, the theme will be implied rather than directly spelled out |
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--the implied message (not directly stated)
--that a literary work has for its reader
--closely related to inference(NOT the same)
--implications usually "teach" the reader (theme)
--implications are usually something (a lesson) that can be taken away by the reader
--The Way Up to Heaven showed inference. |
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--To include quoted material in writing:
Begin the quoted passage with quotation marks. End the quoted passage with quotation marks. After the quoted passage, a parenthetical reference must occur. EVEN IF YOU JUST REFER TO A PASSAGE, you MUST use a parenthetical reference at the end of the reference. |
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If you need to change words in a passage to make the passage fit with your sentence OR if you need to add a word to a quote to make the meaning of the quote clear in your writing USE brackets [ ].
Place your words in the brackets to make it obvious that they are not from the original source. |
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Lived from 1925-1964
"Good Country People"
American Southern Gothic
Known for Short Stories
Master of making grotesque characters
Most Famous -- GCP and "A Good Man is Hard to Find" |
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Lived: 1916-1990
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
James and The Giant Peach
The Way Up to Heaven
Wrote adult lit. first (25 years)
Then went into children's literature
Likes to bed the rules in his lit. based on boarding school background
Characters do not fit into normal ideas
Born in England
Matilda.... |
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Lived: 1922- April 2007
--85 yrs old
indianapolis, indiana
had temporarily unemployed father.
during the great depression (1929-1941)
served in WW2
where he was captured by the Germans
sent to Dresden as a prisoner.
was there during the Allied bombing of that city
France, England, U.S., Russia were the Allies
experience in Dresden served as the basis for his most well-known work: Slaughterhouse-Five
taught creative writing
at the University of Iowa during the 1960s
peak of his popularity during the 1970s
We read Harrison Bergeron |
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Lived 1852-1930
New England decline: Poor soil, Germans, etc. came, Germans were Kings of Fertilization, Created odd social situations in N.E. : Some people were engaged for 20 years. Postponement of marriages. Costs less for single people because there would be no kids and fewer kids in the future
Younger people stayed single and took care of their parents forever -- no gov't help
older people would "bid out" for CHEAPEST bid to take care of individuals; paid for by community
Writings: Focused on strongwilled women. "Revolt of Mother" -- Most famous.
Epiphanic stories
Epiphany story: 3 wise men to find Jesus; huge discovery. someone makes a huge discovery about themselves. feeling of empowerment that goes along with story.
"A Church Mouse" from phrase "as poor as a church mouse" |
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