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Mrs. H mid-term

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What introduces the setting?   Exposition  
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What is the sequence of events in a short story?   Plot  
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What is the recurring theme in a story?   Universal Theme  
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How does the writer reveal the character through speed and acions?   Indirect Characterization  
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How does the writer decribe the characters?   Direct Characterizations  
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What is the central message expressed in a story?   Theme  
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What are the people or animals who take part in a story's actions?   Characters  
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What is the story's conclusion?   Resolution  
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What introduces the conflict?   Rising Action  
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In the story "Ribbons" where did the grandmother come from?   Hong Kong  
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How would you describe Mr. Bueller's character in seventh grade?   wise and helpful  
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What happens to Loo-Wit while she was sleeping?    
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What is the use of clues early in a story to hint for future events?   foreshadowing  
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Who is the main character of the story "The Bear Boy"   Kuo-Haya  
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What is the theme of the story "The Bear Boy"?    
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what is the placement of a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to reveal past occurences?   Flashback  
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How does Rikki feel after he kills Karait?   proud  
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What is the general name given to literary techniques that ivolve suprising and unexpected that happens?   Irony  
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Who is the main character of "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"?   Greg  
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How does Victor try to impress Teresa on the first day of Frech class?   he pretends to be really good at speaking Frenh.  
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What is another name for a verse in a poem?   Stanza  
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What is the name of the language that describes one thing as if it was something else?   Metaphor  
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What is the figurative language that gives human qualities to something non-human?   Personfication  
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What is the language when you compare two un-like things using like or as?   Similie  
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What is something that represents something else?   Symbol  
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What is the repitition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?   Alliteration  
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What is the use of any element of language more than once?   Repitition  
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What is the repition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables?   Assonance  
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What is the repition of similiar consanant sounds at the ends of accented syllables?   Consonance  
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What is the use of words that imitate sounds?   Onomatopeia  
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What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?   Rhyme  
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What is the turning point of a story?   Climax  
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The part of the story when the conflict lessens is?   Falling Action  
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What are the tools writers often use to enhance their writing?   Literary Devices  
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The form of a language spoken in a particular region or group is?   Dialect  
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What is the reason or reasons that explain why characters act as they do?   Motivation  
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What is a writing or speech not meant to be taken literally?   Figurative Language  
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What is the rhythmical pattern in a poem?   Meter  
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What is the type of poem that tells a story in a verse?   Narrative  
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What is a three line Japanese verse form?   Haiku  
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What is defined by lack of strict structure?   Free verse  
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What kind of poem expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker often musical?   Lyric  
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What is a song-like pattern that tells a story dealing with adventure and romance?   Ballad  
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What type of poem is shaped to look like their subject?   Concrete  
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What is a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific pattern?   Limerick  
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What is a pair of rhyming lines with the same meter and length?   Rhyming Couplets  
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