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Terms and Definitions
Terms | Definition |
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Alliteration | The repetition of intinal consonant sounds in words in asentance.Ex:sweet smell of success,a dime a dozen, bigger and beter, jump or joy. |
Antagonist | Principal chacracter in opposition to the protagonist. Sometimes not a person but an obstacle such as a force of nature, society or inner conflict. |
Antonym | a word that is the opposite of another word. |
Author's Purpose | Why did the author write the selection? Is the purpose to entertain, to inform or to persuade? Skim the selection and attempt to determine the author's purpose before you read the selection. |
Autobiography | The story of a person's life written by the person |
Biography | The story of a person's life written by another person. |
Cause and Effect | cause statements stem for actions and events, and effects are what happen as a redult of the event or action. |
Characterization | the methos an author uses to communicate information about the characters to the reader.the methods inclue:(1) |