Spelling Terminology

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Chapter
Part or section of a story or in someone's life
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Character
a person in a novel, play, or film. (Persona, Role)
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Hedonstic
self-indulgent, seeks pleasure
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Juxtaposition
Comparison, Contrast
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Dynamic Verb
Dynamic verbs have duration. They occur over time.
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Religion
Faith, Belief
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Duality
opposition, difference
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Simile
Uses "like" or "as" to compare something to something else
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Quotation
text or speech repeated by someone other than the original speaker or writer
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Role
Duty, responsibility
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Sympathetic
Feeling sorry for someone
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Imagery
uses a picture to cause feeling or emotion
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Adverb
Describes a Verb (An Action)
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Scientific
Systematic or Methodical
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Psychological
inner, non-physical
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Trogloditic
deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned.
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Sequence
series, chain
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Narrator
someone who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.
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Metaphor
NOT a simile. Comparing something say it is something else (The moon is a bright white ball)
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Repetition
Doing something over and over again
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Noun Phrase
A pronoun such as 'they' or 'them'
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Unorthodox
unconventional, unusual
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Physical
Something you can touch. Opposite of Psychological
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Countenance
support or approval.
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Dialogue
A line that is spoken
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Gothic
a style of writing that is characterised by elements of fear, horror, death etc
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Personification
Giving an inanimate object human-like traits (The cloud yawned)
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Syntax
used to create well-formed sentences in a language.
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Narrative
story, tale
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Evolution
Charles Darwin thought that there could be another way life was formed other than Adam and Eve (Christianity) and made a book called the origin of species that goes in detail of how humans descended from apes
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Unconventional
irregular, unorthodox
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Confession
admitting to something (usually something that isn't positive)
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Duplicity
Hypocritical
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Description
an explenation of som
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Extravagant
reckless, irresponsible
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Symbol
Used to represent something
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Grotesque
Horrible, Evil
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Creation
The making of something
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Ego
The little voice inside of you telling you to do things
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Interpolated Narrative
Multiple Narrators telling the same story
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a person in a novel, play, or film. (Persona, Role)

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Character

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self-indulgent, seeks pleasure

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Comparison, Contrast

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Dynamic verbs have duration. They occur over time.

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