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Unit 2 Academic Voc.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one |
| explanatory text | a type of writing in which an author provides facts and details about a topic in order to increase readers' knowledge of the subject. |
| summary | a concise, complete, and accurate overview of a text. It should not include a statement of your opinion or an analysis. |
| drama | is a story written to b perfromed by actors. |
| script | made up of dialogue and stage directions |
| dialogue | the words spoken by the actors/characters |
| stage directions | usually printed in italics, tell how the actors should look, move, and speak. They also describe the setting, sound effects, and leighting. |
| Acts | the parts dramas are divided into |
| scenes | the parts acts are divided into |
| conflict | a struggle between opoosing forces |
| external conflict | when a character struggles against another character, nature, or society |
| internal conflict | when a character struggles agains his or her own feelings |
| plot | a series of events that revolves around a conflict |
| inciting incident | introduces the central conflict |
| rising action | events that build or rise up to the conflict |
| climax | a high point of interest or suspense |
| falling actions | events that happen after the central conflict is resolved |
| resolution | the remaining conflicts are resolved or left open (cliff hanger) |
| playwright | a person who writes plays |
| foreshadowing | when the author hits at events to come in the plot |
| mood | feeling or response created for the reader |
| dramatic irony | a situation in which the audience knows more than the characters do |
| synonyms | words with similar meanings |
| antonyms | words with opposite meanings |
| suffix -ion | "act or condition of" |
| verb | a wrod that expresses an action of state of being |
| principle part of the verb | is its verb forms |
| regular verbs | their forms follow a single predictable pattern |
| irregular verbs | their forms do not follow a single predictable pattern |
| present tense | expresses an action that happens regularly or states a current condiition or a general truth |
| past tense | expresses a completed action or a condition that is no longer true |
| future tense | indications an action that will happen in the future or a condition that will be true |
| participle | a word formed from a verb (e.g., going, gone, being, been ) and used as an adjective (e.g., working woman, burned toast ) or a noun (e.g., good breeding ). In English, participles are also used to make compound verb forms (e.g., is going, has been ). |
| Holocaust | the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz. |
| Nazi Ideology | Nazis believed in the superiority of the "Aryan" race -- an invented categoy of "pure" Germans that excluded Jews, gypsies, and the descendants of immigrants form Eastern Europe. |
| The Final Solution | The mass killings of Jews began full force resulting in the killing of 2/3 of Europe's prewar Jewish population. |
| central idea | unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story. |
| external motivation | refers to behavior that is driven by external rewards such as money, fame, grades, and praise. |
| point of view | the narrator's position in relation to a story being told |
| 1st person point of view | the narrator is a character in the story |
| 3rd person limited point of view | the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character |
| 3rd person omnicient point of view | the narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story |
| 2nd person point of view | the narrator tells the story to another character using the word 'you |
| author's purpose | his/her reason for or intent in writing - it may be to amuse the reader, to persuade the reader, to inform the reader, or to satirize a condition |
| suffix -ent | turns a verb into an adjective |
| etymology | the origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning. |
| coordinating conjunction | conjunction that coordinates or joins two or more sentences, main clauses, words, or other parts of speech |
| diary | conversational style writing that has everyday words and direct sentence structures |
| anti-semitism | hostility to, prejudice or discrimination against Jews |
| irony | something that happens in a story that is the opposite of what the reader thought was going to happen |
| soliloquy | a speech in which a character, usually alone on stage, expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings aloud |
| drama review | an evaluation of a dramatic performance |
| primary source | offers a firsthand, eyewitness view of an event |
| secondary source | interprests or analyzes a primary source |
| annotated timeline | a timeline that lists events and dates on which they occurred |
| chronological timeline | the events in a timeline appear in chronological order |
| parallel timeline | timeline that shows events that are related to each other and happen during the same time period |
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