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huck finn
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | a person who opposes slavery |
| beliefs | give information that apeales to the values and beliefs of your audience |
| contrive | predict or guess |
| contrite | feeling of sorrow for offences |
| dialect | a regional form of language characterised by varying spelling, pronunciations, and grammatical rules |
| dramatic irony | situations where the reader or audience knows more about what is happening then the characters |
| expository | a type of writing that gives or exposes information |
| emotion | give details that stir emotions in your reader |
| explanations | provide explanations for your reasons that apeal to logic , emotions, or beliefs |
| figurative language | using language to paint a vivid description or create a special effect |
| gaudy | extravagent and tasteless |
| hyperbole | a discription that is greatly exagerated |
| irony | a literary technique that involves a contrast between how things are and how they apear to be |
| idiom | a figure of speach or a phrase that is not taken literaly |
| loll | to sit lazily |
| narrative | a type of writing that tells a story |
| notion | an idea about something |
| oxymoron | bringing two words with opposite meanings together |
| ornery | stubborn |
| pun | a word or words that either have multiple meanings or sound alike and as a result makes a sentence clever or humorous |
| plunder | stolen goods or loot |
| persuasive | a type of writing used to convince a reader that a particular point of veiw is the correct one |
| repetition | state your point multiple times but state it in different ways so the writing doesn't become too reductant |
| reasons | provide rational at logical reasons for your argument |
| situational irony | when the outcome or effect is the opposit of what was expected |
| similes metaphores analogies | use these writing techniques to relate to something that the reader can understand and remember |
| slavery | slavery was a cruel institution that once dominated the southern economy in the united states and impacted african americans untill it was abolished |
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