RL.8.6 ELA Vocabulary

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First Person Point of View/First Person Narration

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the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view (I, me, we)

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convey

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to communicate (a message or information); to make an idea or feeling known

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contrast

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the state of being different; differ

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verbal irony

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when the speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal meaning of what he/she is saying

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narrator

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a person who is telling the story

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third person point of view

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the narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by 3rd person pronouns (he, she, they)

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second person point of view

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the narrator uses the pronoun 'you' to address the reader, implying that the reader is either the protagonist or a character in the story

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theme

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the central idea or message in a literary work

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setting

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the time and place in which a story occurs

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characterization

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the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character