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Vocab 2nd six weeks
Question | Answer |
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Point of View | Perspective in which a story is told |
Plot | Main Events |
Inference | the act or process of reaching a conclusion about something from known facts or evidence. IS ___ |
Foreshadowing | clues or hints about future events to happen |
Protagonist | main character |
Antagonist | character who opposes main character |
Tone | author's feelings |
Mood | is the overall feeling for the audience an author creates |
Setting | The given time and place of a story |
Imagery | the use of language appealing to one or more of the five senses |
Suspense | a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. |
Colonization | is the act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin |
Mercantilism | Mother Country sought to control trade, create favorable balance of trade, and build up supplies of gold and silver bullion |
Stanza | An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem |
Haiku | 3 line poem with seventeen syllables, written in 5/7/7 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature |
Graphic Elements | Capital Letters, Line Length, Word Position the use of varying lengths in lines of poetry to help create or enhance meaning IS? |
Poetic techniques | Onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, rhyming, simile and metaphor |
Rhyme | Repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of line in poems |
Hyperbole | Exaggerated Statement |
Grievance | a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest |
Sovereignty | the authority of a state to govern itself or another state |
Physical Property | a property (as color, hardness, boiling point) of matter not involving in its manifestation a chemical change |
Chemical Property | a property or characteristic of a substance that is observed during a reaction in which the chemical composition or identity of the substance is changed |