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| "... before the space capsule landed and barfed up Cap Anderson." |
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| "... we were all up a creek without a paddle." |
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| "Not attractive, but adorable in the same sense you can't help pitying him- like a wet puppy rolled in sand." |
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| "Who do you thnk you are, Jerry Seinfeld?" |
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1st part of the plot-
introduces background information, setting and characters |
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| 3rd person narrator knows the thoughts & feelings of MORE than ONE character. (Can read more than one characters' mind.) |
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| 3rd person narrator knows the thoughts & feelings of only ONE character. (Can read only one character's mind.) |
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| A 3rd person narrator knows NONE of the characters' thoughts & feelings. (Narrator cannot read any characters' mind.) |
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Repeated use of a word, phrase
or line.
• Used to reinforce an idea or
sound.
• Adds emphasis to the author’s
message, creates atmosphere.
So much noise
So much sound
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Silence is found. |
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| The repetition of an initial consonant sound, as in "a peck of pickled peppers." |
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The repetition of the final sound
of a word.
• Can be at the end of a line or
within the line.
Roses are red, violets are BLUE
Sugar is sweet and so are YOU. |
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| a character who changes significantly |
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| a character who does NOT changes |
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| a force (often another person) working against the main character |
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| a message about life or human nature a reader gets from a story or book (life lesson) |
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| a problem or struggle outside the character/ a problem with another person, nature, society etc... |
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| a problem within a character (in the character's mind) |
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| an event that seems deliberately opposite to what one expects and is often amusing as a result |
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| an outside voice telling the story (not a character in the story) narrator uses he, she, they, them etc... |
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| figurative language comparing 2 unlike objects (including people) |
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| figurative language comparing 2 unlike objects (including people)& uses like or as |
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| figurative language in which the author refers to a person, place or thing in history or other literature (book) |
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| figurative language which says one thing and means something totally different |
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| giving human qualitities to something non-living |
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| hints provided by the author about future events in the story |
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| main character of a story or book |
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point of greatest interest
point of highest tension
turning point |
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| rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used |
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| series of events in a book/story (the events that happen in the book/story) |
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the narrator (the person telling the story) is a character in the story
uses I, me, my, we, us |
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| the part of the plot in which the stuggle/ problem gets worse or becomes more complicated |
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| the part of the plot where the action is less tense/ the events which move the story to the end |
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| the part of the story/book which tells the way things are going to be from then on (the happily or unhappily ever after) |
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where & when the story/ book takes place
the time & place of the story |
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