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Patterson Period 6
1st vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imagery | Words and phrases that appeal to the readers' five senses. |
| Mood | The atmosphere or feeling conveyed in a piece of literature. |
| Nonfiction | Writing that tells about real people, places, and events. |
| Setting | The time and place in a story; where was it, what did it look like etc. |
| Ancedote | A short account of an interesting, amusing, or biographical event. |
| 3rd Person Omniscient Point of View | When the author writes the story as a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters. The author refers to all the characters as he, she, or it. |
| Similie | The comparison of two things that have the same quality in common using the words like or as. |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two things that have that same quality in common. |
| 1st person | Literature written as if the author is the main character. |
| 2nd person | Written as if the reader is the main character. |
| 3rd person limited | The author writes the story as if he only knows the thought, and emotions of the main character. |
| Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman. |
| Rhyme | Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. |
| Rythm | A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. |
| Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract. |
| Theme | The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic: "the theme of the sermon was reverence". |
| Tone | The overall quality of a musical or vocal sound: "the piano tone is lacking in warmth". |
| Fact | A thing that is indisputably the case. |
| Idiom | A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. |
| Subjective | Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. |
| Opinion | A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. |
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