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1st vocab words

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