Reading Midterm Review
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| What are the two types of characterization | Direct and Indirect Characterization
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| What is theme | Central message expressed in a story
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| What is the life message that is expressed in different cultures and time periods | Universal Theme
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| In the story "ribbons" where did the grandma come from | Hong Kong
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| How would you describe Mr. Buler in the story "Seventh Grade" | Understanding
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| In the poem "Loo-Wit" what happens to her while she is sleeping | They were kicking her sides down
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| Who is the main character in "The Bear Boy" | Kuo-Haya
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| What inntroduces the setting | Exposition
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| What is the time and place of the story, the characters, and the situation. | Setting
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| What introduces the conflict or problem | Rising Action
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| How does Rikki-tikki-tavi feel after he killed Karait | Proud
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| Who's the main character in "Lemon Brown" | Greg
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| What is the turning point of a story | Climax
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| What is the part of a story when the conflict lessens | Falling action
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| What does Stacy want to go back to doing once her grandma came to her house | Dancing
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| What is the story's conclusion | Resolution
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| What is the use of clues early in a story to hint at events that are going to occur later | Foreshadowing
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| Why does Greg prefer to go to the tenement the n going home | It is calm and his father doesn't yell at him because of his grades
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| What is the mood of the story when it is raining in the "Lemon Brown" | Sad and gloomy
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| What is the difference between Greg's reaction to the thieves then Lemon Brown | Lemon Brown is using courage while Greg is some what scared
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| What is the placement of a scene within a story that interrupts the events to reveal occurnces | Flashback
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| What is the general name given to techniques that involve contradictions. Example-amusing | Irony
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| What is the form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group | Dialect
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| What are poems that are usually divided into lines then grouped | Stanzas
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| What is writing or speech not meant to be taken literally | Figurative Language
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| What descibes one thing as if it were something else | Metaphor
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| What gives human qualities to something that is not human | Personification
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| What uses LIKE or AS to compare two apparently unlike things | Simile
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| What is anything that represents something else | Symbol
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| What enhances a poem's mood and meaning | Sound Devices
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| What is the repitition of constant sounds in the beginning of words | Alliteration
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| What is the useb of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase,clause, or sentence-more than once | Repetition
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| What is the repetition of vowel sounds followed bydifferent consonants in stressed syllables as in "blade and maze" | Assonance
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| What is the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables like "wind and sand" | Consonance
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| What is the use of words that imitate sounds | Onomatopoeia
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| What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words | Rhyme
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| What is the rhythmical pattern in a poem | meter
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| What is poetry that tells a story in verse | Narrative poetry
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| WHat is a three-line Japenense verse form that the first and third line are 5 syllables and the second line has 7 syllables | Haiku
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| What poetry is defined by by its lack of strict structure | Free Verse
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| WHat poetry expresses thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in musical verse | Lyric
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| What are songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance | Ballads
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| What poems are shaped to look like their subjects | Concrete
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| What are humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific ryhme pattern or scheme | Limerick
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| What are pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length | Rhyming Couplets
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| What is unsheduled or unplanned | Impromptu
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| What is slightly open | Ajar
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| What is hesitently or with uncertainty | Tentatively
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| Showing shyness | Timid
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| Process by which one becomes a member of a group | Initiation
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| failed to take care of | Neglected
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| Came back to consciousness | Revived
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| A great deal or very much | Immensely
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| Something that comforts a disappointed person | Consolation
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| Optional course | Elective
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| Make an unpleasant expression by contracting the eyebrows and lowing the the corners of the mouth | scowl
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| Belief | Conviction
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| Serious or somber | Solemn
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| Produces an effect on; causes a change | Affects
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| Great musician | Maestro
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| Giving off light | Luminous
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| Curving motion | Swerve
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| Speak | Utter
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| Small mammal that eats rats, mice, birds, and eggs | Weasel
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| Dig a hole for shelter | Burrow
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| Stoops or bends low | Crouches
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| Become untangled or seperated | Unravel
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| Force form a position or place | Dislodge
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| Tough and strong | Sinewy
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| Strong and muscular | Brawny
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| Upper legs and hips | Haunches
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