Grade 8 Vocabulary words

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FUGITIVES: people fleeing from ________

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danger

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an account of someone's life written by someone else

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biography

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Conclusions we come to based on information in the text and what we already know.

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Inference

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characterization

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the ways in which a writer reveals the personality of a character (direct or indirect)

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What a character does throughout the story?

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parallelism

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the reason for one's actions

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motivation

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dispel

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to scatter; drive away

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remain or stay longer

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linger

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ability to write or speak powerfully and convincingly

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eloquence

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messy or untidy

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disheveled