Desmond Exam 2nd term
Terms
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- local color
- mannerisms, dress, language of a particular location
- foil
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a secondary character who contrasts the main character
Miss Maudie, Miss Stephanie Crawford - allusion
- a reference to a popular person, place...
- works cited
- formal listing of resources
- Oxymoron
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a figure of speech that joins contradictory terms
pretty ugly A little big - assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds
cat scram crack - alliteration
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repetition of the beginning consonant
Peter Piper Picked a Pickled Pepper - poetry
- writing in lines and stanzas
- theme
- central message or insight of a literary work
- personification
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a figure of speech that gives a nonhuman subject human characteristics.
The sun smiled at us.
The house was sad that its owners were leaving. - Mrs. Desmond 9 Spring 2007
- cut apart and study
- point of view
- perspective of storytelling
- What point of view is "To Kill a Mockingbird written in"
- From Scout's point of view--First person
- What point of view is The Odyssey written.
- The narrator or Third person point of view
- myth
- a fictional story passed by word or mouth
- imagery
- writing that appeals to the five sen
- epic
- a long poem about the adventures of a hero
- dialect
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form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
"Yawl come on back ya hear" - epic hero
- well known character and possesses almost superhuman strength
- prose
- writing in sentences and paragraphs
- protagonist
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main character
Scout, Jem - Angagonist
- character working against the main character