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Unit III Narrator and Voice
Pre AP English Kimball High School Tracy CA
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English
9th Grade
06/07/2013

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Term
Persona
Definition
A mask or a voice for a character
Term
Point of View
Definition
The vantage point from which a writer tells a story
Term
First Person Narrator
Definition
A character in the story using the pronoun “I.”
Term
Omniscient Narrator
Definition
ALL knowing ALL seeing narrator.
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Third-Person limited (Point of View)
Definition
The storyteller zooms in on one character. The
readers follow that one character, but we know a small amount of information about the other characters.
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Credible Narrator
Definition
A narrator you can believe.
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Unreliable Narrator
Definition
A narrator you cannot trust. A narrator that does not tell the
truth.
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Tone
Definition
The attitude a speaker or writer takes toward a subject, character, or audience
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Voice
Definition
Writer’s overall use of language and style.
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Diction
Definition
Writer’s choice of words
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Surprise Ending
Definition
An ending you do not expect.
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Moral
Definition
A message about how we should live our lives.
Term
Draw a Conclusion
Definition
Make judgments based on evidence.
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Irony
Definition
The difference between reality and expectations
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Verbal Irony
Definition
The character says one thing but means the opposite.
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Dramatic Irony
Definition
The reader/audience knows something the character does not.
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Situational Irony
Definition
The situation the character finds him/herself in is the opposite of
what is/was expected.
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Tag-Line
Definition
Key line in a story.
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Informational Material: Synthesize
Definition
Reading many different sources about a topic and putting all that
information together.
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Informational Material: Find the Main Idea
Definition
What is the writer’s main idea.
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Informational Material: Paraphrase
Definition
Put it into your own words.
Term
Informational Material: Look for evidence
Definition
Facts, statistics, anecdotes to support the main idea
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Informational Material: Compare and Contrast
Definition
Look for similarities and differences between sources
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Informational Material: Make Connections
Definition
Does the information remind you of previous material.
Term
Informational Material: Pull it all together
Definition
Create a report/presentation.
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