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friday quiz words
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English
9th Grade
11/10/2014

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Characteristic
Definition
Typical of a person,place,or things
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Cite
Definition
Student cited the sources of her research paper.
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Dialogue
Definition
What one person says to another on a book, play, or movie.
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Evidence
Definition
Its proof
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Excerpt
Definition
A small part from a book or moovie
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Indicate
Definition
To point out or to show somebody.
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Intended
Definition
To be planned or that somebody meant to do it.
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Issues
Definition
Problems that people have.
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Obtaining
Definition
To have
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Optimistic
Definition
Possitive about everything.
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Persuasive
Definition
Being good at convincing someone
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Plot
Definition
The main events of a play,story,or movie
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Point of view
Definition
Is the narrator's position in relation to the story being told.
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Protagonist
Definition
The main character thats nice in a story.
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Antagonist
Definition
The bad person of the story.
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Quotations
Definition
a group of words taken from a story or somewhere and rewritten by somebody else.
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Revising
Definition
Editing or correcting mistakes that somebody or you did.
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Simile
Definition
two unlike things compared using like or as.
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Metaphor
Definition
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
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Imagery
Definition
appealing to your senses or the senses of a reader or audience.
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Symbolic imagery
Definition
Symbols in nature.
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Thesis statement
Definition
Is that sentence or two in your text that tells what the story is going to be about.
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Tone
Definition
The attitude towards the topic in a story.
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Transitions
Definition
words and phrases that connect two ideas.
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Accessible
Definition
When something is able to be reached.
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Achieve
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Accomplish
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Amid
Definition
In the middle of.
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Cautionary
Definition
to serve as a warning
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Conflicting opinion
Definition
drama between two characters or more
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Containing
Definition
to have something in hands
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Development
Definition
to grow, progress, or to spread.
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Eager
Definition
To want to have or so something really bad.
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Emphasize
Definition
to give special importance or to be really interested in.
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Enhance
Definition
To make better
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Evoke
Definition
to recall memories
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Imply
Definition
to suggest something.
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Indicate
Definition
To point out or show.
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intended
Definition
to be planned.
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obtaining
Definition
to have
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Optimistic
Definition
to be confident and happy about everything.
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Pessimistic
Definition
to always be negative about everything.
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Phony
Definition
fake
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Primarily
Definition
for the most part.
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Rational
Definition
to be logical.
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Reveal
Definition
to anounce to others secrets.
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Connotation
Definition
is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its additional or primarily meaning.
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Denotation
Definition
is the literary or primarily meaning of a word.
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Attitude
Definition
the way of thinking about someone.
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Shift
Definition
a Change in tone or writers voice in a story or poetry.
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Title
Definition
the name of a book,composition,or other artistic work.
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