Vocabulary List #1 Review

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to feel or express sympathy; to feel or express sorrow or compassion for

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commiserate

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feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt

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contrite

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unwilling or unable to believe something

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incredulous

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very weak or slight; very slender or fine, insubstantial

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tenuous

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The narrator TELLS what a character is like.

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direct characterization

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The narrator SHOWS what a character is like through the character’s words, thoughts, actions, and looks and through others’ reactions to the character.

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indirect characterization

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information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation

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context

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(in writing) to fit a quotation smoothly into your own sentence

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embed

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a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning, an “educated guess”

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inference

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(in writing) a conclusion drawn from evidence that explains how the evidence supports the claim

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reasoning