Reading midterm
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| what are the two types of characterization | direct, indirect
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| the five elements of plot are exposition, climax, , resolution | rising action, falling action
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| what is a three lined japenees poem | Haiku
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| describe one thing as if it was something else | Metaphors
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| in the story ribbons where did the grandmother just come from | Hong-Kong
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| gives human qualities to something that is not human | personification
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| what happens to loo-Witt when she is sleeping | she erupts
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| use like or as to compare two unlike things | similes
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| anything that represents something else | symbol
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| repetition of constant sounds | alliteration
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| use of any element of language more than once | repitition
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| how does rikki-tikki feel when he kills karait | cocky, proud
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| who is the main character in The Treasure of Lemon Brown | Greg
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| How does victor try to impress teresa on the first day of french class | tries to speak French
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| what is the repitition of vowel sounds followed by different constanents | Assonance
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| what is the repitition of similiar constant sounds | consonance
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| what is the use of words that imitate sounds | onomatopeia
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| what is the repititionof sounds at the ends of words | Rhyme
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| what is the rythmic pattern in a poem | Meter
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| wrting or speech not meant to be taken litteraly | Figurative language
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| Poems are usually divided into lnes and what | stanzas
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| poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single person often in a highly musical verse | lyric
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| poetry that tells a story in verse | narrative poems
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| Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme. | lymeric
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| poems are shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page. | Concrete
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| songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance | Ballad
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| poetry tells a story in verse. Narrative poems often have elements similar to those in short stories, such as plot and characters. | Narrative
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| poetry is defined by its lack of strict structure. It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern. | Free verse
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| pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length. | Rhyming Couplets
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| General name given to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradicttions. When a story includes irony, something unexpected happens. | Irony
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| form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group. The use of dialect gives a short story a more authentic feel and helps a character's words sound more realistic. | dialect
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| the use of clues early in a story to hint at events that are going to occur later. | foreshadowing
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| the placement of a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to reveal past occurrences. | flasbacks
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| the people or animals who take part in a story's action. | characters
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| The reason or reasons that explain why characters act as they do. | motivation
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| central message expressed in a story. | theme
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| recurring theme. A message about life that is expressed in different cultures and time periods. | universal themes
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| tools writers often use to enhance their writing. | literary devices.
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