Studied by 38 peopleTags & Description
deference
humble yielding of wishes
tacit
unspoken
chafing
rubbing
traverce
pass through
mettle
courage
haggard
warn or tired
tenacious
holding firmly together
wainscots
wood panaling
reticence
keeping ones feeling to them self
sagacity
wisdom
pathos
feelings of sympathy
providence
forehanded circomstances
imperturbably
unshakenly calmly
exposition
the setting forth of facts detailed explanation
description
picture in words
dialogue
conversation between 2 characters
action
unfolding of events by what the character does
round
complex
flat
uncompleted one dimentical
dynamic
changes during the story
static
unchanging during the story
allusion
a reference to something biblical literary or historical
imagery
use of words that apele to the 5 scenes
foreshadowing
hints that predict the future
personification
giving human qualities to something non human
irony
saying or doing the opposite of doing whats expected
verbal irony
using laguage other than what is expected
situational irony
a discrepancy between expectation and fulfullment
dramatic irony
the audience knows something the actor dosent
short story
1.can be read in one sitting
2. realistic
3. one inpresion
fairy tale
narrative containing supernatural beings
realism
accurate depiction of life
moral
simple statement that gives a simple truth
theme
dominant idea
conflict
clash of actions ideas wills or forces
types of conflict
1.man vs self
2 man vs man.
3. man vs nature
4. man vs a power greater than himself
man vs society
resolution
how the conflict gets solved
protagonist
main character
antagonist
the oppisision of the main character
setting
time and place
characters
those who carry out the plot
plot
sequence of events in a story
subjects joined by the conjunction and
plural
in a sentence with a verb phrase the first helping verb must agree with the subject
know this
the verb must agree with
the subject
in an inverted sentence, the verb comes _______ the subject
before
the title of anything is
singular
collective nouns are ____
singular
each, either, neither, one, everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, anyone, anybody, someone, somebody, everything, anything, something, another, nothing, less, little, much
singular
both, few, several, many
plural
2 or more antecedents joined by and should are
plural
2 or more antecedents joined by or, nor are
singlular
henry Harrison
tennessee wrote a newspaper his book queed was popular has 6 more storys published in mcClure’s magazine in 1911
who wrote miss hinch
henry Harrison
story was about a detective trying to find a murder
miss hinch
james ullman
wrote stories plays first american to clime mount everest writes about mountains
who wrote top man
james ullman
groop of people climbing the mountian k3
top man
hamlin garln
1860 to 1940 represent pioneres of pioneres in the midwest afer cival war grew up on iowa farm but moved east encouraged socal reform
who wrote under the lions paw
hamlin garlin
story about a poor farmer that gets trapped into buying more land
under the lions paw
tomas aldrich
born in newhapture prepared for collage at 13 moved to nyc published first poetry at 19 story of bad boy was written 1869 known for surprise endings and precise word choices
who wrote marjory daw
tomas aldrich
story about a guy who broke his leg and gets letters for comfert
marjory daw
marry freeman
1852-1930 works reflects people of newengland best known for characters
who wrote revolt of mother
marry freeman
dad builds barn mom makes it into house
revolt of mother
willa cather
1873-1947 grew in nebraska
who wrote Neighbor Rosicky
willa cather
old guy has heart problems
Neighbor Rosicky
noun
person place thing or idea
verb
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
adjative
discribes a noun
adverb
discribes verb adj or adverb
pronoun
replaces a noun
prepisition
a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause
conjuction
combines words and sentences
interjection
a exclamation word at the begining of the sentence
dressups
ly adverb
strong verb
quality adj
www.absha clause
appositive
participal phrase
sentence openrs
subject
prepisitinal
ly advdrb
participal phrase
www.absha clause
vss
thesis statemnt
discribes your papers main points
plagerism
copying word for word
paraphrasing
transating a passage into your own words
summarizing
shortining a passage
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